Redirecting Traffic with MPLS Traffic Engineering
Arbitrary traffic steering is a unique feature of MPLS that few other protocols can accomplish. This course builds on your existing MPLS-TE skills to teach advanced applications of this powerful technique, using both RSVP-TE and SR-TE deployments.
What you'll learn
The ability to steer traffic in a service provider network is critical. In this course, Redirecting Traffic with MPLS Traffic Engineering, you'll review the fundamentals of MPLS-TE. First, you'll learn about using RSVP-TE and deploy several example tunnels using common constraints, such as bandwidth reservations, affinity rules, and TE metrics. Next, you'll configure advanced MPLS-TE features such as the QoS-based tunnel selection, DiffServ-aware TE, tunnel stitching, and fast-reroute technologies. Last, you'll centralize the path competition process while concurrently programming Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) tunnels into the network. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills necessary to deploy strategic and tactical MPLS-TE tunnels using a variety of techniques to implement traffic steering and fast-reroute in any network.
Table of contents
- Course Introduction, Prerequisites, and Expectations 3m
- MPLS Traffic Engineering with RSVP-TE: A Refresher 3m
- Introducing the Globomantics Network 2m
- Demo: Reviewing the IS-IS and RSVP-TE Design 5m
- Demo: Leveraging Affinities for Topology Isolation 6m
- Demo: CoS-aware EFPs and Pseudowire Binding 5m
- Module Review 1m
- Path Computation Element (PCE) Design Models 6m
- Demo: Basic PCEP Configuration and Validation 3m
- Sending Topology Data to the PCE via BGP-LS 1m
- Demo: Basic BGP-LS Configuration and Validation 5m
- Demo: Building a Stateless SR-TE Tunnel via PCEP 3m
- Demo: Building a Stateful Passive SR-TE Tunnel via PCEP 3m
- Course Review and Additional Resources 1m
About the author
Nicholas (Nick) Russo, CCDE #20160041 and CCIE #42518, is an internationally recognized expert in IP/MPLS networking and design. To grow his skillset, Nick has been focused advancing Network DevOps via automation for his clients. Recently, Nick has been sharing his knowledge through online video training and speaking at industry conferences. Nick also holds a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Nick lives in Maryland, USA with his wife, Car... more