IP and MPLS Traffic Engineering
Key Information
Prerequisites:
Familiarity with the operation of basic IP networks is assumed, and knowledge of ATM and/or MPLS networks is useful, but not required
Outline and Objectives:
Traffic engineering aims to ensure that individual flows of IP traffic achieve their QoS objectives, and that the utilisation of the network capacity is optimised. It achieves this by a combination of design, capacity planning, and operational traffic management. Once the network is live, operational traffic management ensures that techniques for reactive fault and performance management are available. A combination of IP layer techniques and ATM/MPLS techniques is typically used, together with appropriate physical layer resilience and protection. This course gives a comprehensive treatment of these different approaches to traffic engineering in large IP networks, and illustrates key topics with demonstrations.
Who Should Attend:
This course is aimed at product managers, cross-training engineers, operations staff, and anyone who needs to understand the different components of traffic engineering for IP networks, and how these are typically integrated in real-world networks.
Course Contents:
- IP Networks and their Forwarding Behaviour
- The Need for Traffic Management
- IGP-based Traffic Management
- Traffic Management using BGP-4
- Traffic Management across Customer Interfaces
- ATM-based Traffic Management
- MPLS-based Traffic Management
- MPLS-based Protection Switching Using FRR
- The Role of Physical and Optical Networks
- An Integrated IP Traffic Engineering Solution
