Service Provider

CCNA – Service Provider (CCNA-SP) program is an instructor-led course and is designed for individuals providing them the ability to configure and implement baseline Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation networks. It focuses on the latest in Service Provider industry core networking technologies and trends. It covers both the Cisco exams, Building Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Networks, Part 1 & 2 (SPNGN1 & SPNGN2)

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

• Understand how networks function, and identify major network components, functions of network components, and the OSI reference model
• Use the host-to-host packet delivery process, label issues that are related to increasing traffic on an Ethernet LAN and identify switched LAN technology solutions to Ethernet networking issues
• Explain the reasons for extending the reach of a LAN and the usable methods
• Describe the reasons for connecting networks with routers and how routed networks transmit data by using TCP/IP
• Describe the function of WANs and the major devices of WANs
• Configure PPP encapsulation, static and dynamic routing, and NAT
• Understand different management tools that are used to manage a service provider network
• Describe IPv4 and IPv6 addressing schemes
• Describe switched and routed technologies
• Understand MPLS, Multicast and VPN Technologies

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows :

• Basic Internet usage skills and Microsoft windows navigation skills
• Recommended CCNA & CCNP Training/Certification

Course Outline

• Module 1: IP Fundamentals
• Module 2: Basic LAN Switching
• Module 3: Basic IP Routing
• Module 4: Connectivity Technologies
• Module 5: Network Management and Security
• Module 6: Service Provider Network Construction
• Module 7: Advanced LAN Switching
• Module 8: Internal Service Provider Traffic Forwarding
• Module 9: External Service Provider Routing
• Module 10: Cisco IOS XE and Cisco IOS XR Software

Intended Audience

This course is designed for individuals who are focused on service provider NGN networks, specific to entry-level network operations personnel. This course would also benefit engineers who are motivated to pursue Cisco certifications focused on service provider NGN operations.

CCNP Service Provider course is the ultimate training program for engineers pursuing the Cisco Certified Network Professional – Service Provider Certification. This course would help you to prepare you for the latest SPROUTE, SPADVROUTE, SPCORE and SPEDGE exams. The course provides knowledge and skills to network professionals which are required to have in order to deliver a scalable carrier-grade infrastructure capable of rapid expansion to support ongoing introduction of new managed services and other customer requirements.

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, the student will be able to meet these overall objectives :

• Identify the typical routing requirements and list the routing protocols in service provider networks
• Describe steps needed to implement OSPF in the service provider network
• Describe the importance of the Integrated IS-IS routing protocol for internal routing and list the steps in implementing Integrated IS-IS into the service provider network
• Implement BGP to connect an enterprise to a service provider, and a service provider to an upstream service provider
• Describe tools used for routing protocol manipulation, route redistribution, and BGP route selection
• Configure the provider network to support multiple BGP connections with customers and other autonomous systems
• Describe common routing and addressing scalability issues in the provider network
• Describe available BGP tools and features to secure and optimize the BGP routing protocol in a service provider environment
• Introduce IP multicast services and the technologies that are present in IP multicasting
• Introduce PIM-SM as the most current scalable IP multicast routing protocol
• Describe service provider IPv6 transition implementations
• Describe the features of MPLS, and how MPLS labels are assigned and distributed
• Discuss the requirement for traffic engineering in modern networks that must attain optimal resource utilization
• Introduce the concept of QoS and explain the need to implement QoS
• Classify and mark network traffic to implement an administrative policy requiring QoS
• Introduce different Cisco QoS queuing mechanisms used to manage network congestion
• Introduce the concept of traffic policing and shaping, including token bucket, dual token bucket, and dual-rate policing
• Introduce the VPN technologies that are used in the service provider environment and the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN peer-to-peer architecture
• Describe the implementation steps that are needed to provide MPLS Layer 3 VPN service in service provider networks
• Describe how the MPLS Layer 3 VPN model can be used to implement managed services and Internet access
• Describe Layer 2 VPNs and Ethernet services

Prerequisites :

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:

• Skills and knowledge equivalent to those learned in Cisco Certified Network Associate – Service Provider Course (CCNA Service Provider)

Course Outline

SPROUTE :

• Service Provider Routing
• Implementing OSPF in the Service Provider Network
• IS-IS
• Routing Protocol Tools and Route Manipulation

SPADVROUTE :

• Service Provider Connectivity with BGP
• Scaling Service Provider Networks
• Secure and Optimize BGP Multicast
• Intradomain and Interdomain Multicast Routing
• Service Provider IPv6 Transition Implementations

SPEDGE :

• VPN Technologies
• MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
• Complex MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
• Layer 2 VPNs and Ethernet Services

Intended Course

This course is intended primarily for network administrators, network engineers, network managers, and systems engineers who would like to implement IP routing in service provider environments, MPLS and MPLS TE in the core portion of service provider environments, and ensure QoS in the service provider backbone, implement MPLS VPN service in their networks. This course is also recommended to all individuals preparing for Cisco CCNP SP certification.

Cisco has responded to the challenge in the internetworking technology with the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Program. This is a high-level certification program designed to identify and serve the best of the internetworking experts and to improve your hands-on skills. The CCIE certification is currently the most significant certification in the industry.

The Cisco CCIE® Service Provider Lab Exam version 4.0 is an eight-hour, hands-on exam which requires a candidate to configure, diagnostic, and troublehooot a series of complex network scenarios for a given specification based on dual stack solutions (IPv4 and IPv6). Knowledge of troubleshooting is an important skill and candidates are expected to diagnose and solve issues as part of the CCIE lab exam. The candidate will not configure all end-user system, however the candidate is reponsible for all devices residing in the network.

Course Objectives

The CCIE Service Provider Bootcamp consists of a set of practice exercises covering all protocols tested in the CCIE lab exam. They are aimed at engineers preparing for the CCIE lab exam who already understand the theory of the protocols being tested

This bootcamp is the next step to fully understanding complex CCIE level technologies. Every possible technology you need to know for the CCIE Service Provider lab will be described in extremely verbose detail using what we call a “cavernous” approach. This approach combines an overview with an instructor-led class walk through the every interface found in the CCIE Lab Exam. In the walk-through, the instructor will discuss with the students all possible aspects of configuration, then demonstrate those technologies, and go into expert level troubleshooting. This will all be done live, while fielding questions from students throughout the demonstration. This live question-taking will facilitate diving even deeper into subjects than if an instructor simply recorded demonstrations, as different students will inevitably pose questions and scenarios in different ways.

A CCIE certified on Version 4 and experienced Cisco instructor will facilitate the class. The instructor will provide detailed explanation and facilitate group discussion. Students will also receive individual attention from the instructor if needed. Throughout the course students will have access to their own personal rack of equipment matching the CCIE Service Provider Lab blueprint v4. Immersing students in an environment without the distraction of work and personal obligations, students will maintain focus required to benefit from the volume of material. Delegates should be prepared to work beyond the usual classroom hours.

The course is frequently reviewed to ensure that it is up to date and meets the latest topics tested on the CCIE Service Provider 4.0 Lab exam blueprint

Course Description

The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. In order to better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.

27% 1.0 Core Routing

• 1.1 Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP)
• 1.1.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot IS-IS
• 1.1.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot OSPFv2 and OSPFv3
• 1.1.c Describe and optimize IGP scale and performance
• 1.2 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
• 1.2.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot IBGP, EBGP, and MP-BGP
• 1.2.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot BGP route policy enforcement
• 1.2.c Describe and optimize BGP scale and performance
• 1.2.d Describe, implement, and troubleshoot advanced BGP features, for example, add-path and BGP LS
• 1.3 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
• 1.3.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot LDP
• 1.3.b Describe and optimize LDP scale and performance
• 1.4 MPLS traffic engineering
• 1.4.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot RSVP
• 1.4.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot ISIS and OSPF extensions
• 1.4.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MPLS TE policy enforcement
• 1.4.d Describe and optimize MPLS TE scale and performance
• 1.5 Multicast
• 1.5.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot PIM (PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, and PIM-BIDIR)
• 1.5.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot RP (Auto-RP, BSR, Static, Anycast RP, and MSDP)
• 1.5.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot mLDP (including mLDP profiles from 0 to 9)
• 1.5.d Describe and optimize multicast scale and performance
• 1.6 Quality of Service (QoS)
• 1.6.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot classification and marking
• 1.6.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot congestion management and
scheduling, for example, policing, shaping, and queuing
• 1.6.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot congestion avoidance
• 1.6.d Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MPLS QoS models (MAM, RDM, Pipe, Short Pipe, and Uniform)
• 1.6.e Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MPLS TE QoS (CBTS, PBTS, and DS-TE)

26% 2.0 Service Provider Based Services

• 2.1 Carrier ethernet
• 2.1.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot E-LINE, for example, VPWS
• 2.1.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot E-LAN and E-TREE, for example VPLS and H-VPLS
• 2.2 L3VPN
• 2.2.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot L3VPN
• 2.2.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Inter-AS L3VPN
• 2.2.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Multicast VPN
• 2.2.d Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Unified MPLS and CSC
• 2.2.e Describe, implement, and troubleshoot shared services, for example, Extranet and Internet access
• 2.3 Overlay VPN
• 2.3.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot L2TPv3
• 2.3.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot LISP
• 2.3.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot GRE and mGRE based VPN
• 2.4 Internet Service
• 2.4.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Internet Peering and Transit
• 2.4.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot IPv6 transition mechanism, for example, NAT44, NAT64, 6RD, and DS Lite
• 2.4.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Internet peering route and transit policy enforcement

17% 3.0 Access and Aggregation

• 3.1 Transport and encapsulation technologies
• 3.1.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot ethernet technologies
• 3.2 PE-CE connectivity
• 3.2.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot PE-CE routing protocols, for example, static, OSPF, and BGP
• 3.2.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot route redistribution3.2.d Describe, implement, and troubleshoot loop prevention techniques in Multihomed environments
• 3.2.e Describe, implement, and troubleshoot end-to-end fast convergence
• 3.2.f Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Multi-VRF CE
• 3.3 Quality of Service (QoS)
• 3.3.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot classification and marking
• 3.3.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot congestion management and scheduling, for example, policing, shaping, and queuing
• 3.3.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot congestion avoidance
• 3.4 Multicast
• 3.4.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot IGMP and MLD
• 3.4.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot PIM
• 3.4.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot RP
• 3.4.d Describe and optimize multicast scale and performance

13% 4.0 High Availability and Fast Convergence

• 4.1 System level HA
• 4.1.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot SS0/NSF, NSR, and GR
• 4.1.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot IGP-LDP Sync
• 4.1.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot LDP Session Protection
• 4.2 Layer 1/2/3 failure detection techniques
• 4.2.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Layer 2 failure detection
• 4.2.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Layer 3 failure detection
• 4.3 Routing/fast convergence
• 4.3.a Describe, implement, and optimize IGP convergence
• 4.3.b Describe, implement, and optimize BGP convergence
• 4.3.c Describe, implement, and optimize IP FRR and TR FRR

17% 5.0 Service Provider Security, Service Provider Operation and Management

• 5.1 Control plane security
• 5.1.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot control plane protection techniques(LPTS and CoPP)
• 5.1.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot routing protocol security, for example, BGP-TTL security and protocol authentication
• 5.1.c Describe, implement and troubleshoot BGP prefix suppression
• 5.1.d Describe, implement and troubleshoot LDP security, for example, authentication and label allocation filtering
• 5.1.e Describe, implement, and troubleshoot BGP prefix based filtering
• 5.2 Management plane security
• 5.2.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot device management, for example, MPP, SSH, and VTY
• 5.2.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot logging and SNMP security
• 5.2.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot route filtering
• 5.3 Infrastructure security
• 5.3.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot uRPF
• 5.3.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot iACL
• 5.3.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot RTBH
• 5.4 Timing and synchronization
• 5.4.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot timing protocol, for example, NTP, 1588v2, and SyncE
• 5.5 Network monitoring and troubleshooting
• 5.5.a Describe, implement, and troubleshoot syslog and logging functions
• 5.5.b Describe, implement, and troubleshoot SNMP traps, RMON, EEM, and EPC
• 5.5.c Describe, implement, and troubleshoot port mirroring protocols, for example, SPAN, RSPAN, and ERSPAN
• 5.5.d Describe, implement and troubleshoot NetFlow and IPFIX
• 5.5.e Describe, implement, and troubleshoot IP SLA
• 5.5.f Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MPLS OAM and Ethernet OAM
• 5.6 Network configuration and change management
• 5.6.a Describe network change, implementation, and rollback