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The Implementing the Cisco NCS 540 Series Routers (NCS540HWE) training teaches you how to deploy Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) 540 Series routers in a network environment. You will be introduced to the features and functions of the Cisco NCS 540 series platforms, system architecture, services implementation, quality of service (QoS), system security, model-driven telemetry, and programmability. This training also earns you 40 Continuing Education (CE) credits towards recertification.
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What You'll Learn

  • 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 synchronization 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.
  • Recognize, 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.

Who Should Attend

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

  • 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), IS-IS, and OSPF

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Course Outline

  • Section 1: Cisco NCS 540 Series Hardware Overview
  • Section 2: Cisco NCS 540 System Architecture
  • Section 3: Cisco NCS 540 QoS Architecture
  • Section 4: Timing and Synchronization
  • Section 5: Cisco NCS 540 xHaul Design
  • Section 6: Cisco IOS XR Software Fundamentals
  • Section 7: Cisco IOS XR Software Installation and Upgrade
  • Section 8: Cisco IOS XR Software System Security
  • Section 9: Segment Routing Fundamentals
  • Section 10: Segment Routing Topology-Independent Loop-Free Alternate
  • Section 11: Segment Routing Traffic Engineering
  • Section 12: Advanced Segment Routing Traffic Engineering Features
  • Section 13: Segment Routing IPv6
  • Section 14: Layer 3 MPLS VPN Implementation with Cisco IOS XR Software
  • Section 15: Layer 2 VPNs and Ethernet Services Fundamentals
  • Section 16: Cisco IOS XR Software EVPN Operation and Implementation
  • Section 17: Cisco IOS XR Software Programmability
  • Section 18: Model-Driven Telemetry

Lab Outline

  • Configure and Verify NTP
  • Cisco IOS XR Software Installation
  • Configure and Verify MPP
  • Configure and Verify uRPF
  • Configure and Verify Segment Routing
  • Configure and Verify SR TI-LFA Using IS-IS
  • Configure and Verify SR TI-LFA Using OSPF
  • Configure and Verify SR TE Using IS-IS
  • Configure and Verify SR TE Using OSPF
  • Configure and Verify ODN and Flexible Algorithm
  • Configure and Verify SRv6
  • Configure and Verify Layer 3 VPN
  • Configure and Verify EVPN VPWS
  • Configure and Verify Devices by Using Model-Driven Programmability
  • Configure and Verify Model-Driven Telemetry

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