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Implementing the Cisco NCS540 Series Routers (NCS540HWE)

Length 5 days
Version 1.0

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Why study this course

Implementing the Cisco NCS540 Series Routers training is designed for network professionals to learn how to deploy Cisco NCS 540 Series routers in their network environment. Topics covered include understanding the features and functions of the Cisco NCS 540 Series platforms, system architecture, services implementation, Quality of Service (QoS), and system security, along with the utilisation of model-driven telemetry and programmability.

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What you’ll learn

After taking this course, you should be able to:

Classify the Cisco NCS 540 platform hardware and understand the variations between large, medium, small, and fronthaul form factors, their features, use cases, and positioning.
Describe the hardware architecture of the NCS 540 Series and the components necessary for packet queuing and forwarding, understand the life of a packet on ingress and egress traffic.
Explain the system architecture for traffic queuing, scheduling, and forwarding to introduce concepts of Cisco IOS XR modular QoS on the NCS 540 platform.
Describe the methods and protocols for establishing timing and synchronisation on Cisco IOS XR router platforms.
Describe the Cisco NCS 540 Fronthaul router family and its features and how they can be used to make mobile network architecture simpler.
Describe Cisco IOS XR Software architecture, its programmable features, and how to install software packages.
Implement model-driven telemetry for enhanced network visibility and management.
Recognise, implement, and manage system security features within Cisco IOS XR Software systems, ensuring the protection of network infrastructure and data.
Describe the main factors leading to the development and deployment of segment routing, types of segments that are used in segment routing, Segment Routing Global Block (SRGB), and configure and verify IS-IS and OSPF segment routing operations.
Demonstrate how segment routing works and how it protects links and nodes while explaining the basic loop avoidance, segment-routing traffic-engineering (SR-TE), and traffic engineering components used in segment routing.
Implement and configure advanced segment routing for traffic engineering (SR-TE) features.
Describe the components and functionality of Layer 3 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPNs implementation in Cisco IOS XR Software deployments.
Identify the routing protocol and LDP information necessary for Layer 3 MPLS VPN troubleshooting.
Implement Layer 2 VPN operations in a service provider environment.
Explain how EVPN gets around the problems that regular Layer 2 VPNs have, what the model for EVPN delivery is, and how to implement and troubleshoot EVPN solutions.

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Who is the course for?

System Engineers
Network Engineers
Field Engineers
Technical Support Personnel
Channel partners, resellers

Course subjects

Cisco NCS 540 Series Hardware Overview
Cisco NCS 540 System Architecture
Cisco NCS 540 QoS Architecture
Timing and Synchronisation
Cisco NCS 540 xHaul Design
Cisco IOS XR Software Fundamentals
Cisco IOS XR Software Installation and Upgrade
Cisco IOS XR Software System Security
Segment Routing Fundamentals
Segment Routing Topology-Independent Loop-Free Alternate
Segment Routing Traffic Engineering
Advanced Segment Routing Traffic Engineering Features
Segment Routing IPv6
Layer 3 MPLS VPN Implementation with Cisco IOS XR Software
Layer 2 VPNs and Ethernet Services Fundamentals
Cisco IOS XR Software EVPN Operation and Implementation
Cisco IOS XR Software Programmability
Model-Driven Telemetry

Lab outline

Configure and verify NTP on Cisco IOS XR routers
Create and configure a local repository, and install a Cisco IOS XR software package
Retrieve and edit device configuration by using model-driven programmability
Configure and verify model-driven telemetry
Learn how to configure and verify IPv4 and IPv6 filtering on a Cisco IOS XR router
Configure Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) on a Cisco IOS XR router
Configure management plane protection (MPP) on a Cisco IOS XR router
Configure and verify IGP segment routing
Configure and verify the operation of SR TI-LFA fast reroute using the IS-IS routing protocol
Configure and verify the operation of SR TI-LFA using OSPF routing protocol
Implement SR-TE within the network topology using OSPF
Implement SR-TE within the network topology using IS-IS
Configure and verify SR-TE for high-bandwidth and low latency traffic using ODN, network slicing, and Flexible algorithm
Deploy MP-BGP as the PE-CE routing protocol in the VPNs of a service provider end customer
Deploy various routing options to establish a PE-to-CE relationship
Configure and verify EVPN VPWS, and enable BGP to exchange routes between PE routers

Prerequisites

Before taking this offering, you should have:

Knowledge of core Cisco networking technologies
Understanding of implementing and operating Cisco networking solutions
Recognition of general networking concepts and protocols
Basic knowledge of router installation and some experience with installation tools
Routing protocol configuration experience with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Intermediate System-to- Intermediate System (IS-IS), and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Knowledge of Layer 2 IEEE switching and related protocols
Strong knowledge of MPLS configurations
Experience troubleshooting Cisco routers in a large network environment

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