MPLS and QoS workshop

Well designed and implemented MPLS and QoS enabled networks can improve the reliability and efficiency of running mission critical applications across a wide area network.

This applications-focused, hands-on workshop enables participants to understand and deploy these technologies in an exciting lab environment. Over five days, participants deploy MPLS for traffic engineering, MPLS-based VPNs, and scalable QoS techniques that MPLS enables. Various deployment scenarios are discussed, highlighting the benefits and weaknesses of each.

Topics covered in the 5 day course:

Introduction to MPLS

1. Data forwarding techniques
2. Label swapping
3. Components of an MPLS network
4. MPLS terminology
5. Signalling protocols

1. Operational efficiencies of MPLS
2. Traffic engineering
3. VPNs
4. Hierarchical routing
5. IP + ATM

MPLS Signalling Protocols

1. Signalling terminology
2. Downstream on demand vs. unsolicited
3. Conservative vs. liberal label retention
4. Ordered vs. independent label distribution
5. LDP
6. CR-LDP
7. RSVP-TE
8. BGP
9. Exercise: MPLS LDP (Participants deploy LDP to perform label switching)

MPLS and Traffic Engineering

1. Requirements for TE
2. Constraint-based forwarding
3. Traffic trunks
4. Link attributes (colouring)
5. Preemption
6. Fast reroute
7. Exercise: MPLS TE (Participants deploy MPLS to perform TE using RSVP-TE)

MPLS VPNs

1. Benefits of MPLS VPN
2. RFC 2547bis
3. RFC 2917
4. Layer 2 forwarding over MPLS
5. Components of MPLS VPNs
6. VRFs
7. VPN-IPv4 addressing
8. Route Distinguisher
9. Route Target
10. Single-site provisioning
11. VPN topologies
12. Exercise: MPLS VPNs (Participants deploy an RFC 2547bis VPN and explore route advertisement, single-site provisioning, and service provider topologies)

QoS

1. Benefits of QoS
2. Queuing
3. FIFO
4. Priority queuing
5. Custom queuing
6. WFQ
7. CBWFQ
8. LLQ
9. WRED
10. Rate limiting
11. Shaping
12. Exercise: QoS (Participants receive multiple sets of requirements to meet using various QoS tools on an MPLS-enabled network)

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