In-depth MPLS Traffic Engineering with MPLS-VPNs deployment and configuration, and QoS operation within MPLS Networks

I. Introduction to MPLS

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

II. Benefits of MPLS

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

III. MPLS Signaling Protocols

1. Signaling 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)
   
   

IV. MPLS and Traffic Engineering

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

V. 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
    

Exercise: MPLS VPNs (Participants deploy an RFC 2547bis VPN and explore route advertisement, single-site provisioning, and service provider topologies)

VI. 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

Exercise: QoS (Participants receive multiple sets of requirements to meet using various QoS tools on an MPLS-enabled network)