Understanding Cisco Service Provider Network Foundations (SPFNDU)
- Duration: 4 days (32 hours)
- Date: on request
Understanding Cisco Service Provider Network Foundations (SPFNDU)
This course will help:
- Acquire the foundational knowledge to understand the Cisco Service Provider Network methodologies, tools, and functions
- Learn the skills to manage the software and hardware platforms, structures, and protocols within the Service Provider realm
Course syllabus:
- Review Lab Environment
- Examine Governance Data
- Perform an Initial Cisco Internetworking Operating System (IOS XE) Configuration
- Configure Connectivity and Connectivity Verification on Cisco IOS XE Devices
- Perform Initial Cisco IOS XR Configuration
- Configure and Verify Connectivity on Cisco IOS XR
- Configure Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS)
- Configure Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2) and RIP extension (RIPng)
- Configure Basic Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
- Configure MPLS
- Configure Internet Protocol Service Level Agreement (IP SLA)
- Configure Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) with Object Tracking
- Configure Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRFs)
- Configure Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- Use Linux Command Line Interface
- Configure IOS XR Using a Bash Script
You will learn:
- Describe network architectures, devices, and software used by service providers
- Describe the various Internet governance organizations, their roles, and tools available for governance information verification
- Configure Cisco Internetwork Operating System (Cisco IOS) and Cisco IOS XE routers
- Describe Cisco IOS XR software, perform initial configuration, and explain platform daily tasks
- Describe various access and core technologies used by service providers
- Describe various major switching technologies used by service providers
- Describe major overlay technologies and their usage, and configure Virtual Extensible LAN I (VxLAN)
- Describe various major routing protocols used by service providers
- Configure Layer 3 services used by service providers
- Describe Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), components, protocols, and MPLS usage
- Describe usage of various services used and maintained by service providers
- Introduce Linux networking, Bourne Again Shell (BASH) scripting, and their usage within Cisco IOS XR software
Pre-requisites:
Before taking this training, you should have the following knowledge and skills:
- Knowledge of IPv4 and IPv6 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking
- Familiarity with typical service provider environment
- Basic knowledge about networking devices and their roles
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