Multi-Protocol
Label Switching in 21st Century Telecommunications Networks
Course Duration:
2 day
Training Course Description:
This course provides an understanding of how MPLS works, its
advantages and limitations and how it can be deployed to provide
effective services over a 21st Century converged network. It will
provide a detailed understanding for implementers, designers,
managers and infrastructure engineers that need to plan, implement
and use the new generation of networks and services.
The next generation of telecommunications networks will deliver
broadband data and multimedia services to users. The Ethernet
interface is becoming the interface of preference for user
computers, IP Phones, Digital IP Television and network servers
within the network itself. The network infrastructure will deliver
these high performance IP services over Switched infrastructures
deployed using Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS).
MPLS is a radically new approach to delivering IP services and must
be built on an IP routed infrastructure. However by deploying
switching hardware it becomes possible to deliver quality of service
by bypassing queues in routing functions and switching essentially
in OSI layer 2. Once constructed MPLS networks can be used to
deliver emulation services to provide customers with more
traditional circuits provisioned over interfaces such as E1, Frame
Relay, ATM and STM1 which in reality are provided emulated over MPLS
running over Gigabit Ethernet infrastructures.
When you have completed this course you will be able to:
- Describe the basic function of
MPLS
- Select the appropriate options
and mechanisms for Label Distribution
- Compare the efficiency of routed
and MPLS switched options for QoS networks
- Build infrastructures using MPLS
over different physical infrastructures
- Provide reliability by deploying
the re-routing options in the event of failures
- Deliver high bandwidth MPLS
services for OSPF and BGP4 routed networks
- Engineer Traffic on MPLS
services
- Provide Emulated services over
MPLS infrastructures
Prerequisites:
Delegates should have a solid understanding of IP and WAN
technologies.
Multi-Protocol Label Switching in 21st Century
Telecommunications Networks includes the following modules:
Evolution of Multi-Service Telecommunications Networks
- Business environment for 21st
Century Networks
- Projecting the near future
demands for services
- Delivering Multimedia Services
for Voice, Video and Television
- Identifying the Quality of
Service (QoS) needs
- Analysing the problems with
traditional IP routed Services
- Adapting Internet Access to 21st
Century needs
- Solving the Quality of Service
Delivery problems for Multi-service Delivery
MPLS Basics
- What exactly is MPLS?
- Identifying the characteristics
of simple “Plain Vanilla” MPLS Services
- Label Switched Routers
- Ingress and Egress Label Edge
Routers
- Forward Equivalent Classes
- Label Switched Paths
- Selecting the Label headers
appropriate to the technology
- Distributing Labels with Label
Distribution Protocol (LDP)
- Comparing traffic patterns in
routed and MPLS switched networks
Stacking Labels for Service
Discrimination
- Multi-Service Provisioning
- Mechanisms used in ATM networks
and their problems
- Deploying Label Stacking for
identification of Services
- Tunnelling VPN services
- Delivering Transit Networks
Services
Pseudo Wire Services
- What are Pseudo Wires?
- Pseudo Wire Emulation (PWE)
Architecture in RFC3916
- Suitable Applications for PWE
Services Encapsulation and frame ordering
- Set-up and Tear-Down of PWE
Services
- Performance Monitoring
- Fault Notification and
Management
- Quality of Service Needs
Quality of Service Options in
MPLS Networks
- Defining the objectives of QoS
- QoS Options
- Selecting Between Multiple QoS
Paths
- Deploying QoS using Class of
Service and Experimental bits
- Explicitly Routed LSP
- RSVP for QoS
- Constraint Based Label Switched
Paths
Deploying QoS and Differentiated
Services
- Delivering QoS using
Differentiated Services Code Points within IP
- Forwarding Models for Diff-Serv
Label Switched Routers
- Tunnelling model
- Pipe Model
- Uniform Model
- Preconfigured Explicit Label
Switched Paths
- RSVP Extensions for Diff-Serv
support
- Intserv Service types
Delivering Reliability
- Fault Tolerance objectives for
MPLS
- Establishing a Fault Tolerant
Session with LDP
- Recovering Failed LDP Sessions
- Check-pointing and graceful
termination
- Fast rerouting Alternatives
- Security Considerations
- Implementation Issues
Delivering Quality In Practice
- Conditions affecting QoS in
Practice
- Sporadicity
- Queue Management Issues
- Input and Output queues
- Flow Based Queues
- Class based Queues
- Weighted Fair Queuing
- Random Early Determination
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