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Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR)

Course Content

Architecture

• Describing service provider architectures
• Describing Cisco network software architecture
• Describing service provider virtualization
• Describing QoS architecture
• Configuring and verify control plan security
• Describing management plane security
• Implementing data plane security

Networking

• Implementing IS-IS (IPv4 and IPv6)
• Implementing OSPF (v2 and v3)
• Describing BGP path selection algorithm
• Implementing BGP (v4 and v6 for IBGP and EBGP)
• Implementing routing policy language and route maps (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS)
• Troubleshooting routing protocols
• Describing IPv6 transition (NAT44, NAT64, 6RD, MAP, and DS Lite)
• Implementing high availability

MPLS and Segment Routing

• Implementing MPLS
• Describing traffic engineering
• Describing segment routing

Services

• Describing VPN services
• Configuring L2VPN and Carrier Ethernet
• Configuring L3VPN
• Implementing multicast services
• Implementing QoS services

Automation and Assurance

• Describing the programmable APIs used to include Cisco devices in network automation
• Interpreting an external script to configure a Cisco device using a REST API
• Describing the role of Network Services Orchestration (NSO)
• Describing the high-level principles and benefits of a data modeling language, such as YANG
• Comparing agent vs. agentless configuration management tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Salt Stack
• Describing data analytics and model-driven telemetry in service provider
• Configuring dial-in/out telemetry streams using gRPC
• Configuring and verify Net Flow/IPFIX
• Configuring and verify NETCONF and RESTCONF
• Configuring and verify SNMP (v2c/v3)

Target group
Network Administrator
Network Manager
Network Designer
Project Manager
Network Technician
System Engineer