Overview Replacing Metro Ethernet Switching Deployment Boot Camp (METSI), this course provides the knowledge and skills required to configure, administer, and deploy Layer 2 Ethernet services as defined by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) on a service provider (SP) Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-enable network. Learn how to configure customer premise equipment (CPE) to connect to an SP network, and configure an access network and aggregation, distribution, and core portions of a SP network. Also, learn how to secure an SP network to protect it from attack. Labs reinforce what is discussed in the lecture.
Pre-Requisites
- Ability to efficiently use Cisco IOS command line interface to perform configurations
- Ability to design hierarchical Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks
- Ability to configure, optimize, and scale dynamic routing protocols, in particular OSPF, BGP, and MPLS
- Ability to configure, optimize, and scale Layer 2 protocols
Familiarity with QoS and SLA principles and methodologies
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Network administrators, network operators, and system administrators who need to know how to configure and deploy carrier Ethernet services in their network environment.
- Ethernet service type architectures as defined by the MEF
- Various devices used within a carrier Ethernet system
- Functions of each device within a carrier Ethernet system
- Configure CPE network functions to connect to a point of presence (POP)
- Configure routed CPE functions
- Configure a routing interface and routing protocl
- Configure bridged CPE functions
- Configure 802.1Q interface
- Configure access network functions to allow customer data into the network by completing the following tasks:
- Configure an access node user network interface (UNI
- Configure an access node network-to-network interface (NNI)
- Configure 802.1Q trunking per port and per access node
- Configure Layer 2 protocol tunneling (L2PT)
- Configure 1:1 and N:1 virtual local area network (VLAN) connectivity
- Aggregate customer traffic within the SP network by completing the following tasks:
- Configure flexible Ethernet UNI functions
- Configure UNI classification based on port, 802.1Q, 802.1Q range, QinQ, and untagged traffic
- Configure translation and rewrites
- Configure carrier Ethernet forwarding functions
- Configure EoMPLS pseudowire and Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Virtual Forwarding Instance
- Configure hierarchical VPLS (H-VPLS)
- Configure EoMPLS pseudowire aggregation
- Configure EoMPLS pseudowire switch function
- Configure MPLS NNI function between aggregation and core
- Configure a core network to transport customer traffic through an SP network
- Configure MPLS within a core network
- Increase availability of Layer 2 services within an SP network by configuring pseudowire redundancy and MPLS traffic engineering with fast reroute
- Ensure integrity and security of customer data and an SP network by completing the following tasks:
- Secure access into an SP network
- Secure the aggregation and distribution network layers
- Implement quality of service (QoS) mechanisms in order to meet service level agreements (SLAs) for different traffic types
- Monitor and manage end-to-end Layer 2 Ethernet services using Ethernet-OAM
- Introduction
- Using Metro Ethernet Services and the Cisco Carrier Ethernet System
- Building a Network Core
- Building an Access Network
- Point-to-Point EVC: E-Line Service
- Multipoint-to-Multipoint EVC: E-LAN Service
- Scaling and Extending Ethernet Services
- Increasing the Availability of Ethernet Services
- Securing a Carrier Ethernet Network
- Deploying Quality of Service Within a Carrier Ethernet Network
- Managing Services Within a Carrier Ethernet Network