MPLS Fundamentals: Cisco CCNP & Real World

This is a complete guide of the MPLS protocol...what it can do for your network and when, how and where to use it.

What you'll learn:

• The goal of this course is to give to the student an understanding of the importance of MPLS and its applications.
• This course will help you understand the MPLS concepts needed for the CCNP certification exam.
• This course will help students understand the concepts of MPLS needed for the CCIE exam.
• This MPLS course is meant to teach anyone how to use MPLS in the real world.

In this course we will cover all the fundamentals of MPLS. We will be discussing why MPLS was implemented, the terminology used in an MPLS environment, the configurations used in MPLS, concentrating in using Layer 3 VPNs.

We will discuss the LDP protocol, what labels are and how they get forward it to other LDR Routers. Using the hands on lab we will get to see how these labels get forwarded and we will be configuring multiple IGP routing protocols along with BGP to get information across our network.

We will be creating multiple types of VPNs and through the use for Route Targets and Route Reflectors, we'll demonstrate how packets can be manipulated in a particular direction.

We will definitely be creating Provider Edge routers Customer Edge Routers and have customers within the same company communicate with each other and different companies also be able to communicate with each other through VPN.

We will also learn how to create VRF's in order to make all this possible, as well as understand the CEF, LFIB, LRIB and much more tables in order to troubleshoot MPLS.

DISCLAIMER: Please note that the simulators/emulators used in this course arenot part of the course. It is the students responsibility to have these to practice with. The Cisco Packet Tracer and/or VIRAL (Virtual Internet Routing Lab) are Cisco proprietary softwaresand can only be obtained through Cisco. It is up to each student to obtain the simulator/emulator of their choice to study along with this course.