Workshops	Venue
Advanced MPLS Workshop	Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus Class Room: C6.06. Block C, Level 6, Room 6

Schedule

09:00 – Begin of Advanced MPLS Workshop
10:30 – 1100 – Morning Break with refreshment (Provided by MyNOG)
13:00 – 1400 – Lunch (*Not provided by MyNOG)
15:30 – 1600 – Afternoon Break with refreshment (Provided by MyNOG)
17:30 – end

* Attendees can grab their own lunch at the many restaurant/food-court available within the campus vicinity.

Advanced MPLS Workshop

Instructor
Nurul Islam – APNIC

Synopsis

Traditional IP packet forwarding analyzes the destination IP address contained in the network layer header of each packet as the packet travels from its source to its ﬁnal destination. A router analyzes the destination IP address independently at each hop in the network. Dynamic routing protocols or static conﬁguration builds the database needed to analyze the destination IP address (the routing table). The process of implementing traditional IP routing also is called hop-by-hop destination-based unicast routing.

MPLS has evolved to address some of the concerns of the limitations of traditional IP routing and also address some of the key requirements from a services perspective. Previously Frame Relay and ATM based services were a choice for VPN services. However Frame Relay and ATM services were not able to offer differentiated services based on applications such as voice over IP, IP based Video Conferencing and other emerging applications. MPLS addresses some of these concerns. MPLS provides a number of services such as IPv4/IPv6 based L3 MPLS VPNs, L2 MPLS VPNs and Traffic Engineering. MPLS has provided some excellent solutions for Layer 3 and Layer 2 VPNs, which are widely used in today’s Service Provider networks.

Target Audience

This course is designed for network engineers in service providers or enterprises involved in the deployment of MPLS based services.

Pre-requisites

It is assumed that participants have a good understanding of networking fundamentals with good knowledge of IP Routing Protocols such as RIPv2, OSPF, ISIS and Multi-Protocol BGP. Those who have attended previous IPv4, IPv6 Routing Workshops of APNIC with find this very suitable understanding MPLS in detail.

Course Outline

History of IP Routing and MPLS Evolution
MPLS Basic concepts and standards
MPLS Label Distribution Protocol
IPv4 Layer 3 MPLS VPNs
Layer 2 MPLS VPNs
MPLS Traffic Engineering

Other requirements

It is highly recommended that participants bring their own laptop computers (At least Pentium 4, 1gb Ram, DVD drive, with administrative access to system) to practice the lessons learned during the workshops. It is recommended that the participants have putty or Secure CRT or any good terminal application for the lab.