Overview
The Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR) instructor-led online training course teaches you how to configure, verify, troubleshoot, and optimize next-generation, Service Provider IP network infrastructures. It provides a deep dive into Service Provider technologies including core architecture, services, networking, automation, quality of services, security, and network assurance.
Exam Number: 350-501 SPCOR
After completing this online training course, students will be able to:
- Describe the Service Provider network architectures, concepts, and transport technologies
- Describe the Cisco Internetwork Operating System (Cisco IOS®) software architectures, main IOS types, and their differences
- Implement Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) in the Service Provider network
- Implement Integrated Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) in the Service Provider network
- Implement Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing in Service Provider environments
- Implement route maps and routing policy language
- Describe IPv6 transition mechanisms used in the Service Provider networks
- Implement high-availability mechanisms in Cisco IOS XR software
- Implement traffic engineering in modern Service Provider networks for optimal resource utilization
- Describe segment routing and segment routing traffic engineering concepts
- Describe the VPN technologies used in the Service Provider environment
- Configure and verify Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) L2VPN in Service Provider environments
- Configure and verify MPLS L3VPN in Service Provider environments
- Implement IP multicast services
- Describe the Quality of Service (QoS) architecture and QoS benefits for SP networks
- Implement QoS in Service Provider environments
- Implement control plane security in Cisco devices
- Implement management plane security in Cisco devices
- Implement data plane security in Cisco devices
- Implement automation and assurance tools and protocols
- Describe the role of Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) in Service Provider environments
- Implement virtualization technologies in Service Provider environments
- Service Provider technicians including:
- Network administrators
- Network engineers
- Network managers
- System engineers
- Network designers
- Knowledge of IPv4 and IPv6 TCP/IP networking
- Intermediate knowledge of IP routing protocols
- Service Provider Architectures and Concepts
- Introduction to Service Provider Architectures and History of SPCOR
- SPCOR Terminology
- Access Technologies
- Core Technologies
- Network Operating Systems
- OS & NOS
- IOS
- IOS-XE
- IOS-XR
- Other Cisco OS’s
- IOS-XE and IOS-XR basic configuration and enhancements
- Interior Routing
- IS-IS
- OSPF
- Policies
- Troubleshooting
- Exterior Routing (v4/v6)
- Exterior Routing Introduction
- ASN
- AS Types
- Modes
- Message Types
- NLRI
- Attributes
- Neighborship (Authentication)
- Inter-AS Routing
- E-BGP (Advertisement methods)
- I-BGP (Route Reflectors)
- Stub AS IGP Outbound routing
- Path selection
- MP-IBGP
- MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) and LDP (Label Distribution Protocol)
- MPLS Introduction
- MPLS Planes (CP/DP)
- LDP (Neighborship)
- IP/MPLS Tables
- Lab Intro
- PHP
- LDP Enhancements
- MPLS OAM
- Explicit Null
- TTL Propagation
- MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) with Traffic Engineering
- Traffic Engineering – Intro
- MPLS-TE – Architectural Components
- FRR
- Components – Illustrated
- MPLS Lab
- SR/SPRING (Segment Routing/Source Packet Routing in Networking)
- SR/SPRING Terminology
- SR-MPLS
- SRv6/SRm6
- SR-TE
- TI-LFA
- PCE-PCC Architectures
- VPN
- Service Provider VPN
- Layer 3 SP VPN
- Layer 2 SP VPN Ethernet Evolution
- Intra-AS L2VPN
- EVPN (Integrated L2/L3 VPN)
- IPv6 Transition Mechanisms
- IPv6 Transition Introduction
- IPv6 Migration Methods
- IPv6 Transition Mechanism
- IPv6 in Routing Protocols
- Multicast
- Multicast Concepts
- Multicast Routing Protocols Overview
- Multicast General Configuration Lab
- PIM-SSM
- PIM-SM
- PIM-BiDir
- HA Protocols
- HA – Introduction
- HA
- Link-Level HA
- QoS Architectures
- QoS Introduction
- Tools (MQC-based)
- Service Provider QoS Architecture
- Security
- Control Plane
- Data Plane
- Management Plane
- Automation, Assurance and Virtualization
- Automation Introduction
- API – REST
- Data Models – IETF, OpenConfig, Native
- Configuration Protocols – NETCONF, RESTCONF, gRPC
- Data Encoding Formats
- Telemetry – Pub/Sub, Dial-in/Dial-out, Collector
- Cisco Automation Product – NSO
- Configuration Management – Puppet, Chef, Ansible, SaltStack
- Network Virtualization
- Legacy monitoring and management – SNMP, NetFlow