Subject: [Pim] 2 DAY MPLS COURSE COMING TO OTTAWA, CANADA MARCH 21ST AND 22ND, 2002

From: "Alan Daly" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:33:29 -0500

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Good afternoon Networking Professionals.

                             Northland Systems, the world leader in non-vendor specific MPLS, Fiber Optic, Gigabit Ethernet, and  IP training,  is pleased to announce that our much anticipated, highly successful, 2 day MPLS Technologies course is scheduled to run again in Ottawa, Canada on March 21st and 22nd. I was wondering if you could forward this onto your colleagues and clients to see if they would be interested in attending.

                            The cost to attend this course is $1100.00 CDN per student (plus applicable taxes). Taught onsite at such industry leaders as Alcatel, 360 Networks, Telus, AT&T and Marconi Communications, the student will leave with a thorough and comprehensive understanding of this leading-edge networking technology.  The class is limited to 20 students, and we are expecting this session to sell out extremely quickly, so time is of the essence if you plan on registering either yourself and/or your colleagues on this course. 

**PLEASE NOTE THAT AS A SPECIAL OFFER, ANYONE SIGNING UP MORE THAN ONE ATTENDEE ON THIS COURSE WITH ME AT A TIME WILL RECEIVE A COMPLIMENTARY NORTHLAND DENIM SHIRT FOR THEMSELVES AS WELL AS THEIR COLLEAGUE(S)!!!**

As an added value, all attendees will receive 30 days free access to the Northland Online "MPLS Technology" eLearning course upon completion of this session!

                           This course introduces the challenge of the next generation networks and describes how MPLS addresses it at both a high and low level. Participants are expected to have a strong understanding and experience in WANs, LANs, data communications, routing, internetworking, and communications protocols.

This course will:
  a.. Explain the MPLS concepts, architecture & components. 
  b.. Provide an in-depth view of MPLS. 
  c.. Provide a thorough understanding across all areas of the technology. 
  d.. Describe how MPLS relates to different evolving network technologies.
Please review the detailed course outline below for more information on the content being covered.

To find out more about how to bring this or any other 2 day course in-house to a group at your facility, or to register, please call me directly at 613-667-5063. 

Have a great day! 

Sincerely,

Alan P. Daly
Account Representative
Northland Systems Training Inc.
255 Albert St. 5th Floor
Ottawa, ON
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Direct:     (613) 667-5063
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COURSE OUTLINE:
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INTRODUCTION 
·          Why MPLS
·          Routers & Switches
·          Route at Edge, Switch in Core
·          Labeled Packet Forwarding
·          Label & FEC
·          Traffic Aggregation or Splitting
·          Label Switched Path
·          LSP and the Node
·          LSP Establishment
·          Packet Labeling & Forwarding
·          Forwarding Table & LIB
·          FEC, Labels & LSPs
 
MPLS LABEL ENCODING 
·          Shim Layer Concept
·          Layer 2 technologies & Labels
·          MPLS Shim Description
·          Shim Fields (Label, Exp, S & TTL)
·          Label Values
·          Media Encapsulation
·          Hop Popping
·          Routing & Tunneling
·          Multipoint to point trees
·          MPLS reflects nature of IP Networks
·          Label Aggregation & Frame merging
·          Overview: What is MPLS?
 
ICMP MESSAGES 
·          A brief review of ICMP
·          ICMP Message to source LSR
·          Tunneling through an AS
·          Tunnel Private Address via Public Backbones
·          Extended ICMP Message Length
·          MPLS Extension Data Structure
·          MPLS Object Extensions
·          Stack Entry Object & Extended payload Object
·          Traceroute over MPLS
 
LDP SIGNALING PROTOCOL 
·          LDP Overview
·          Applicability & Features
·          Scalability & Security
·          LSP Establishment
·          Upstream LSR versus Downstream LSR
·          Downstream or Upstream Label Binding
·          Unsolicited versus On-Demand
·          Independent or Ordered
·          Conservative or Liberal Label Retention
·          Label Request Procedures
·          L DP over TCP between Neighbors
·          LDP Security & Privacy
·          LDP Message Format & Types
·          For further study items
·          LDP Message Format & Types
·          Hello Messages & Targeted Hellos
·          Encoding of Hello Message & TLVs
·          Common & Optional Hello Parameters
·          Hello Discovery Phase
 ·          TCP Connection Phases
·          Session Initialization State Machine
·          Session Initialization Message
·          Frame Relay Session Parameters
·          Advertisement Messages to set LSP
·          Label Request & Mapping Messages
·          Label Abort, Withdraw & Release Messages
·          Address & Address Withdraw Messages
·          Vendor Private Messages
·          Notification & Keep Alive Messages
·          Detailed TLV Encoding
 
CR-LDP SIGNALING PROTOCOL 
·          CR-LDP Overview
·          Constraint-Routing
·          CR-LDP Features
·          Traffic Parameters
·          Strict & Loose Explicit Routing
·          Explicit Route TLV
·          Node & Abstract Node
·          CSPF
·          Preemption
·          Route Pinning
·          Handling of Failures
·          LSPID
·          Resource Class
·          CR-LDP Messages
·          LDP PDUs
·          CR-LDP Message Format
·          Label Request & Mapping Messages
·          Notification Message
·          Detailed CR-LDP TLV Encoding
 
RSVP-TE SIGNALING PROTOCOL 
·          Review of RSVP
·          RSVP Node & Session Data Flow
·          Reservation Styles
·          RSVP PATH & RESV Messages
·          Reservation & Data Flow
·          PATH Message & RESV Messages
·          RSVP Message Common Header
·          RSVP Message Object Structure
·          RSVP Message Objects
·          RSVP-TE Common Header
·          RSVP-TE Message Object Structure
·          RSVP-TE LSP Setup Flow
·          New RSVP-TE Objects
·          New C-types
·          RSVP-TE Label Request & Label Objects
·          LSP Tunnel IP Session Object
·          ERO & RRO Objects
·          Path Additional Data Objects
·          RSVP-TE versus CR-LDP
·          Comparative Analysis
 
BGP 4 
·          A brief Review on BGP4
·          Routing & Tunneling
·          Directly connected LSRs
·          Not-directly connected BGP LSRs

MPLS over ATM 
·          A brief review of ATM
·          Motivation for MPLS over ATM
·          ATM-LSR (LC-ATM, LSR-CC, ATM-CC)
·          ATM-LSR Behavior & Constraints
·          Frame-based & Cell-based LSRs
·          ATM-LSR Integrated & Peer Approaches
·          SIN Model - Ships in the Night
·          Transparent Point-to-Point Link
·          RFC 2684/1483
·          Connected through a VP or a VC
·          VCID & VCID Signaling
·          ATM Label Stack Encoding
·          Passing SHIM fields across ATM
·          VC Merge & Non-VC Merge ATM-LSRs
·          Communication from edge to edge LSRs
 
VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS 
·          A brief review on VPN
·          VPN Overlay & Peer Models
·          VPN Peer Model Key Technologies
·          Constrained Distribution of Routing
·          Extended Communities
·          PE Forwarding Tables
·          VPN-IP Address
·          BGP in PE, IGP within the Provider Network
·          MPLS as the forwarding Mechanism
 
MPLS QoS SUPPORT 
·          A brief review on IP QoS
·          IntServ QoS Model
·          Guaranteed Service & Controlled Load
·          MPLS RSVP-TE Support of  InServ QoS
·          Diff-Serv QoS Model
·          MPLS Support of Diff-Serv
·          E-LSP & L-LSP
·          MPLS ECN Support
 
MPLS EVOLUTION & REFERENCES 
·          IP Switching Initiatives
·          MPLS Forum
·          IETF Working Group MPLS Charter
·          MPLS Drafts & Standards
·          MPLS Vendor Products
·          MPLS Testing & Analyser Products
·          Interoperability Testing Centers
·          Example of interoperability testing
·          MPLS Resource Center
·          MPLS Applications & Early Adopters
·          Evolution of the Internet
·          Convergence of Audio, Video & Data
·          Next Generation Applications
·          Abilene & vBNS NGI Initiatives
·          CA*net 2 & 3
·          Next Generation Networks Key Technologies