About Course

Duration: 5 days

*Instructor-led classroom training &
*Instructor-led online / hybrid training

The Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR) v1.0 course teaches you how to configure, verify, troubleshoot, and optimize next-generation service provider IP network infrastructures. The course provides an in-depth look at service provider technologies, including core architecture, services, networking, automation, quality of services, security and network assurance.

This course will also help you prepare for the 350-501 Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR) exam, which is part of the new CCNP Service Provider certification and the Cisco Certified Specialist - Service Provider Core certification.

Course content

Architecture

  • Describing the architectures of service providers
  • Description of the software architecture of Cisco networks
  • Description of the virtualization of service providers
  • Describing the QoS architecture
  • Configuring and checking the security of the control plan
  • Describing the security of the management level
  • Implementing the security of the data layer

Networking

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

MPLS and segment routing

  • Implementation of MPLS
  • Describing traffic engineering
  • Describing segment routing

Services

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

Automation and security

  • Description of the programmable APIs used to integrate Cisco devices into network automation
  • Interpretation of an external script to configure a Cisco device via a REST API
  • Description of the role of Network Services Orchestration (NSO)
  • Description of the general principles and advantages of a data modeling language such as YANG
  • Comparison between agent-based and agentless
  • Configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible and Salt Stack
  • Description of data analysis and model-driven telemetry in service providers
  • Configuring dial-in/dial-out telemetry streams with gRPC
    Configuring and checking Net Flow/IPFIX
  • Configuring and verifying NETCONF and RESTCONF
  • Configuring and checking SNMP (v2c/v3)
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