Course Number: 623
Length: 2 Days
VPLS training course by TONEX is a combination of knowledge training, case studies, examples, and systems analysis revealing the details of VPLS in a swift, comprehensive, and understandable way.
A Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) network is a Layer 2 multipoint VPN that emulates LAN services across a WAN. VPLS enables service providers to interconnect several customer sites (each being a LAN segment) over a packet-switched network, effectively making all the customer LAN segments behave as one single LAN. With VPLS, no routing interaction occurs between the customer and service provider, and the customer can run any type of Layer 3 protocol between sites.
VPLS can utilize Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) to offermultipointEthernetconnectivity over a mesh of logical circuits or tunnels, with the added benefits of Traffic Engineering (TE), resilience, and failover. VPLS enables carriers and SPs to offer managed Ethernet VPN services easily and cost effectively.
Who Should Attend
Network Design EngineersNetwork ArchitectsNetwork Operations and Management ProfessionalsTechnical Sales Engineers and Marketing
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the attendees will:- Understand what VPLS is
- Describe basic VPLS terminology, concepts, and architecture
- List Services over VPLS
- Descrive similarities and differences between VPLS vs. MPLS
- List VPLS Building Blocks
- Explore VPLS Deployments
- Understand VPLS Operations and Management
Outline
Introduction to Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
- The Groundwork
- Overview and Introductions
- What is Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)?
- The Problems VPLS Solves
- Basic VPLS Concepts
- VPLS Terminology
- VPLS Applications
- VPLS for Service Providers and Customers
- Metro Ethernet
- Relationship to Metro Ethernet
- Deployment Scenario
- VPLS as an Ethernet based service
- VPLS as a fast growing Layer 2 MPLS based service
- Geographically Distributed Ethernet LANs
VPLS Technical Overview
- VPLS Architecture
- Deployment Scenarios
- VPLS & H-VPLS
- VPLS Building Blocks
- VPN Layer 2 VPN
- Forwarding Mechanism
- VPN Discovery
- Signaling
- Tunnel Protocol
- Hardware
VPLS vs. MPLS
- VPLS Control and Data Plane Components
- VPLS Operation
- The Ethernet Advantage
- Connectionless, IP aware-operation
- L2 VPNs
- L3 VPNs
- VPLS Overview for Metro Ethernet
- MPLS Overview
- Unicast IP Forwarding in Traditional IP Networks
- Overview of MPLS Forwarding
MPLS Terminology
- MPLS Control and Data Plane Components
- MPLS Operation
- Special Outgoing Label Types
- Penultimate Hop Popping
- Label switching concepts
- Normal hop-by-hop routing
- Layer 3 VPN vs. Layer 2 VPN
- MPLS as a network function
- MPLS as a service, not a technology
- MPLS and virtual circuit services in a meshed connectivity
- MPLS to improve security
- Assigning traffic to multiple levels (4 or 5) of QoS
- MPLS-based private IP Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- MPLS as Network-based VPN
- Ethernet as the backbone of the VPN
MPLS Control Plane
- Creation of Labels
- Distribution of Labels
- Function of Label switching
- Forward Equivalence Class (FEC)
- Label Edge Switches
- Label Distribution Protocol
- Explicit routed Label Switched Paths
- Constraint routed Label Switched Paths
- Traffic Engineering
- Fast Rerouting
- Example of MPLS VPN Configuration
VPLS Primer
- VPLS Topology: Single PE or Direct Attachment
- VPLS Configuration Example
- PE-PE
- PE -CE
- MPLS Edge H-VPLSMPLS
- Hierarchical VPLS: Distributed PE Architecture
- Multi-pointConnectivity
- VPLS Control Plane
- VPLS configuration and verification
- Autodiscovery and Signaling
- VPLS using MPLS as the transport/backbone Network
- Layer 2 VPN restriction to point-to-point connections
- VPLS and broadcasting over the VPLS network.
Services over VPLS
- VPLS as an Ethernet interface
- VPLS Simplifying the LAN/WAN Boundary
- VPLS using the MAC Address
- Using RTP header compression VPLS SLA
- Customer Private Service Needs
- Virtual Private Network Services
- Topology needs
- Point to point services using Pseudo Wires
- Emulated LAN using multipoint services
- VPLS Model for carrier services
- Control Plane vs. Data plane
- Requirements for requested QoS and Protection
- Service Signalling concepts
- Virtual Private Wire Services
- MAC address Learning
- Hierarchical VPLS
- Deployment over LDP
- Learning Actions
- MAC address withdrawal
- Scalability
- Deployment over BGP
- Control Plane and Auto Discovery
- Multi-AS VPNs
- Multicasting over VPLS
- IGMP
- IGMP snooping
- Scaling Issues
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- MTU issues
Advanced Topics in VPLS
- LDP-BGP VPLS Interworking
- VPLS Overview
- VPLS Control Plane
- BGP-VPLS Control Plane
- LDP-VPLS Control Plane
- Forwarding Plane
- Scaling Characteristics of LDP VPLS and BGP VPLS
- Full-Mesh Connectivity
- Provisioning VPLS
- Flooding and Broadcasting
- Exchanging Pseudowire Signaling State
- Inter–Autonomous System Operations
- Scaling Beyond a Single Metro Area
- Comparison of LDP-VPLS and BGP-VPLS Control Plane Scaling Characteristics
VPLS Operations and Management
- Operations, Administration and Management
- Ethernet Service Definitions
- Scaling an LDP-VPLS Network Using BGP VPLS
- Basic LDP-BGP VPLS Interworking
- Interconnecting and Extending VPLS for Multiple LDP-VPLS Domains Using BGP
- Operational Details: LDP-BGP VPLS Interworking
- Example of VPLS Forwarding Between LDP-VPLS and BGP-VPLS Groups
- Redundancy in Scalable LDP-BGP VPLS Interworking
- BGP-VPLS Multihoming
- Operational Details
- Basic Interdomain LDP-BGP VPLS Interworking
- Reachability Between PE Routers and the Interworking Router