Price: $1,699.00
Course Number: 662
Length: 2 Days
Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) training provides a technical overview of VPLS. VPLS training covers technical aspects of VPLS, as a class of VPN that supports the connection of multiple sites in a single bridged domain over a managed IP/MPLS network.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the attendees will be able to:
- Udnerstand the benefits and rationale for VPLS
- List and explain the applications of VPLS
- Sketch the VPLS architecture
- Describe the fucntional architecture of VPLS
- Compare its operation to Ethernet and MPLS
- Describe VPLS operation
- List and explain VPLS protocols
Outline
Introduction to VPLS (Virtual Private Network Services)
- What is VPLS?
- Ethernet Service Definitions
- Why Deploy VPLS?
- VPLS vs. MPLS
- VPLS as an Ethernet based service
- What is Driving L2VPNs?
- VPLS as a Layer 2 VPN
- L2VPN Taxonomy
- Point to Point and Point to Multipoint Services
- Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS)
- L2TPv3
- AT0M
- IP and MPLS Core
- VPLS (Virtual Private Network Services)
- Ethernet
- VPLS for geographically distributed Ethernet LANs
- Pseudo Wires
VPLS Model for carrier services
- Control Plane vs Data plane
- Requirements for requested QoS and Protection
- Service Signaling concepts
- MAC address Learning
- Hierarchical VPLS
- Deployment over LDP
- MAC address withdrawal
- Scalability
- Deployment over BGP
- Control Plane and Auto Discovery
- Multi-AS VPNs
- Multicasting over VPLS
- IGMP
- IGMP snooping
- Deploying VPLS in existing Networks
- VPLS in Triple-Play Solutions
- The VPLS SLA
- MTTR (mean time to repair)
- Round trip delay
- Packet delivery
- Ratios and jitter limits
Role of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
- MPLS and GMPLS
- VPLS vs. MPLS
- MPLS-based private IP VPNs
- Layer 3 VPN vs. Layer 2 VPN
- MPLS as Network-based VPN
- Ethernet as the backbone of the VPN
- Label switching concepts
- Forward Equivalence Class (FEC)
- Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
- VPLS over MPLS Solution Overview
- Creating the PWs
- MAC learning and packet forwarding
- H-VPLS
- Inter-metro service
- Hierarchical VPLS and Autodiscovery
- Manageability and Cisco Service Delivery Models
- Customer Deployment Profiles
VPLS Technology and Operation Overview
- MPLS core network
- Emulating a flat LAN segment
- Extending Ethernet broadcast
- Capability across WAN
- Point to Multipoint
- Connectivity
- Multipoint plug-and-play
- VPLS Reference Model
- A full mesh of pseudo wires (PWs)
- Provider edge (PE) devices which support a given VPLS VPN
- VPLS and Hierarchical VPLS
- Single flat hierarchy
- MPLS to the EDGE
- MPLS Core
- Point to point services using Pseudo Wires
- Emulated LAN using multipoint services
- 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
VPLS Protocols
- VPLS Auto discovery and Signaling
- VPN Discovery
- Centralized DNS
- Radius Directory Services
- Distributed BGP
- Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
- LDP vs. BGP for PW Signaling
- Pseudowire Redundancy:
- Protects from Key Potential Faults
- Inter-Autonomous System Pseudowires
- Pseudowire Switching Model
- LDP-BGP VPLS Interworking
- Comparison of LDP-VPLS and BGP-VPLS
- Basic LDP-BGP VPLS Interworking
- Scalable LDP-BGP VPLS Interworking
- Control Plane Operation of the Interworking PE Router
- Forwarding Plane Operation of the Interworking PE Router
- Example of VPLS Forwarding Between LDP-VPLS and BGP-VPLS Groups
- Redundancy in Scalable LDP-BGP VPLS Interworking
- BGP-VPLS Multihoming
- Interworking PE Router Redundancy for the LDP-VPLS Groups Using BGP-VPLS
- Basic Interdomain LDP-BGP VPLS Interworking
- Reachability Between PE Routers and the Interworking Router
Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and Signaling
- VPLS Functional Model
- VPLS Control Plane
- Auto-Discovery
- Functions
- Protocol Specification
- Signaling
- Label Blocks
- VPLS BGP NLRI
- PW Setup and Teardown
- Signaling PE Capabilities
- BGP VPLS Operation
- Multi-AS VPLS
- Data Plane
- Encapsulation
- Forwarding
- MAC Address Learning
- Aging
- Flooding
- Broadcast and Multicast
- "Split Horizon" Forwarding
- Qualified and Unqualified Learning
- Class of Service
- Deployment Options
- Security Considerations
- IANA Considerations