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Course overview

About this course

This 5-day course that is focused on the Enterprise edge, Service Provider WAN and Large Enterprise Transport networks. Candidates will explore the advanced routing capabilities available within Arista hardware and EOS. Topics such as EVPN, MPLS and Segment Routing will be discussed in depth. All topics are taught from both command line and CloudVision perspectives, including provisioning, managing, troubleshooting, and optimizing.

Audience profile

It is best suited for individuals with at least a mid-level network engineering background, and are comfortable with layer 2 and 3 architectures and concepts such as EVPN and MP-BGP. This course is suitable for candidates who are in, or would like to find, mid-to-senior level network engineer or operation positions related to enterprise edge networking.

At course completion, you will learn:

Focus on the Enterprise edge, Service Provider WAN and Large Enterprise Transport networks.

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Course details

Course Details:

1. CloudVision

  • What is CloudVision Portal (CVP)
  • Automation Landscape
  • CloudVision Deployment
  • CVP Communication
  • Zero Touch Provisioning
  • Bug Alerts EOL Lifecycle
  • Configlets
  • Tasks and Change Control
  • Snapshots
  • Rollback
  • Image Management
  • Devices, Labels and Tags
  • CloudVision Telemetry
  • Using Studios

2. MPLS Concepts

  • MPLS Today
  • Essential Terminology
  • Migration Considerations
  • Label Actions and Distribution Protocol
  • Signaling
  • Segment Routing
  • MPLS Services
  • MPLS Deployment Scenarios

3. MPLS Architecture and Services

  • MPLS Transport
  • Layer 2 and 3 VPN Services
  • Point to Point Layer 2 Services
  • Multipoint Layer 2 VPN Services

4. MPLS Transport Models

  • MPLS Transport with Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
  • MPLS Transport with Segment Routing (SR)
  • MPLS Transport SR Options: ISIS-SR, BGP-SR
  • MPLS Transport with ISIS-SR
  • Segment Routing: IS-IS SR Configuration
  • MPLS Transport with BGP-SR
  • Traffic Engineering, RSVP Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE), and Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE)
  • RSVP-TE
  • SR-TE
  • Segment Routing: IS-IS TE Configuration
  • Segment Routing: TE Policy and Steering Traffic
  • Using BGP to Bind MPLS Labels
  • MPLS Feature Support Matrix

5. MPLS Services

  • MP-BGP
  • Virtual Routing & Forwarding (VRF)
  • MP-BGP Label Advertisement
  • L3VPN Control Plane Processing
  • L3VPN Data Plane Processing
  • E-Line with LDP Pseudowire
  • E-Line with EVPN Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS)
  • E-Line with EVPN Type-2
  • L3 EVPN (Route-type 5)

6. MPLS Optimization

  • Nexthop Group
  • User-defined Tunnel RIBs
  • BGP Next-Hop Resolution RIBs
  • Static Flow Aware Transport (FAT) Support on EVPN VPWS
  • Traffic Steering and Service Mapping

7. Labs

  • Lab Access
  • Assigning Interface IP addresses using Static Configlets
  • Configuring Provider Network Reachability
  • Enable MPLS and LDP
  • ISIS Segment-Routing Traffic Engineering
  • Configuring SR-TE Policy
  • Steering Traffic Into a TE Policy
  • Configuring MP-BGP and L3VPN
  • Configuring E-Line with LDP Pseudowire
  • E-Line with EVPN VPWS
  • E-LAN with EVPN Type-2 (L2 EVPN)
  • Configuring L3EVPN – Route – type 5
  • Troubleshooting L3EVPN Data Plane
  • System-Tunnel-RIB
  • Tunnel RIB Path Selection
  • Color Steering with SR-TE Policy

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