- Review of OSI protocol stack and packet switching
- Packet vs. circuit switching
- Connection-oriented and connectionless network architectures
- Reason for layered telecom architectures
- OSI stack
- Function of each layer
- Layer 2 switching
- Ethernet and OSI
- Packet construction and addressing
- Overview of Routing and MPLS
- Layer 3 routing
- Native Hop-by-Hop Network Layer (Layer 3) routing
- Next Hop Selection Functions
- Advantages of Layer 3 switching
- Label Switching as way to speed packets through network
- MPLS implementation of label switching
- MPLS forwarding paradigm
- Integration of IP and MPLS
- Advantages of MPLS forwarding over conventional network layer forwarding
- MPLS Labels
- MPLS labels basics
- Label encapsulation
- Label assignment and distribution
- Label switched routers and routing (LSR)
- Label distribution: Purpose
- Label distribution: Protocols (LDP)
- Label distribution: Methods
- Label retention modes
- Label Switched Paths (LSP)
- LSP setup control
- Route Selection
- Basics
- Standard IP and MPLS
- IP forwarding
- MPLS label distribution
- Label switched paths
- Explicitly routed LSP (ER-LSP): Basics, example, advantages
- Hop-by-Hop vs. explicit routing
- MPLS Architecture
- Design of MPLS networks
- MPLS operation
- MPLS node architecture
- MPLS elements
- Loop survival, detection, and prevention in MPLS
- Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and MPLS
- Overview of VPNs
- Connection-oriented VPNs
- Connectionless VPNs
- Comparison of VPN technologies
- MPLS VPN operation
- Layer 1 MPLS VPNs (circuit emulation)
- Layer 2 MPLS VPNs (point-point, multipoint)
- Layer 3 MPLS VPNs
- Route reflectors
- Trace route enhancements
- Advantages of MPLS VPNs
- MPLS VPN management
- MPLS Traffic Engineering
- Need for traffic engineering on Internet and other IP-based networks
- Unequal cost load balancing via metric manipulation
- Advantages of MPLS traffic engineering
- Basic concepts of MPLS traffic engineering
- MPLS traffic engineering elements (dynamic/static LSPs)
- MPLS traffic engineering configuration
- Resource Reservation Protocol for Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE)
- Configuration case study of an MPLS traffic-engineered network: Intermediate System-Intermediate System (IS-IS)
- Configuration case study of an MPLS traffic-engineered network: Open shortest path first (OSPF)
- MPLS and Quality of Service (QoS)
- Introduction to Quality of Service (QoS)
- Overbuild versus preferential treatment of packets
- Quality of Service vs. Class of Service (CoS)
- Integrated services
- IP precedence
- Differentiated Services (DiffServ)
- Modular QoS Command Line Interface (CLI)
- MPLS implementation of DiffServ
- MPLS VPN support of QoS
- MPLS QoS implementation
- Configuring QoS for MPLS VPNs
- MPLS QoS case study
- MPLS Design
- MPLS VPN design and topologies
- Designing MPLS networks
- Additional MPLS design considerations
- Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) and Multi-Protocol Lambda Switching
- Using packet-switch ideas in all-optical world
- Differences between lambda (wavelength) switching and conventional packet switching
- Basics of GMPLS
- Transitioning to GMPLS
- Multicast L2/L3
- Mcast backbone requirements
- Point to multipoint (P2MP) LSPs
- P2MP Pseudowire emulation (PW)
- BGP P2MP
- Mobile VPN (mVPN)
- Inter-AS/CSC
- Inter-carrier requirements
- MPLS-Inter-carrier-connect (ICI)
- Multi-segment PW
- Circuit Emulation
- Structure-Agnostic Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) over Packet (SAToP)
- Circuit Emulation Switched Virtual Circuit (SVC) over Packet Switched Network (CESoPSN)
- TDM over IP Gateways (TDMoIP)
- Circuit Emulation (CEM)
- Hierarchical LSPs
- Route aggregation and H-LDP
- Hierarchical resource reservation
- MPLS Resilience and OAM
- Need for network protection
- MPLS error detection
- Thrashing links
- Practical applications
- Node/network level recovery
- LSP/PW ping/traceroute
- Virtual Circuit Connection Verification (VCCV)
- PW redundancy
- Master Controller-Layer 2 Access Concentration (MC-LAC)
- MPLS/Ethernet OAM interworking
- Cisco’s Tunnel Builder vendor solution
- MPLS and Advanced or Emerging Technologies
- Control planes and MPLS
- Fixing the problems of SONET
- Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) and Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON)
- Separation of connectivity and services: Next Generation Network (NGN)
- Getting rid of SONET: MPLS and Optical Transport Network (OTN)
- MPLS and emerging very high speed Ethernet (>100 Mb/s)
- New architectures for layer 2 functionality
- Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and MPLS
- MPLS VPN Marketing
- Who: The user perspective
- What: The money
- How: Approaches to marketing and sales
- Market planning overview
- Case example
- Challenges
- Case study
- Wrap-up: Course Recap, Discussion, and Evaluation
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