Courses Details
Course Overview

The Building Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Networks, Part 2 course is associated with the CCNA Service Provider certification. The course is a 5-day Instructor Lead Training course that provides network engineers and technicians the knowledge and skills necessary to implement and support a service provider network. The course provides knowledge of the major components of a service provider network construction and the Cisco service provider IP NGN architecture. The course also includes classroom activities with labs that are useful to gain practical skills for deploying Cisco IOS / IOS XE and Cisco IOS XR software features to operate and support service provider networks.

Related Certification: CCNA Service Provider

Associated Exam: Building Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Networks (SPNGN2),Part 2 (640-878)



Course Schedule
Target Audience

Network administrators/engineers, IT managers, systems Admins/engineers working in the service provider environment & anyone who is preparing for CCNA SP certification


Course Prerequisites

SPNGN1 -Building Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Networks, Part 1


Course Outline

Module 1:Service Provider Network Architecture

  • Lesson 1: Introduction to Service Providers
  • Lesson 2: Cisco IP NGN Architecture

Module 2:Advanced LAN Switching

  • Lesson 1: Implementing VLANs and Trunks
  • Lesson 2: Spanning Tree Protocol Enhancements
  • Lesson 3: Routing Between VLANs
  • Lesson 4: First Hop Redundancy Protocols

Module 3:Internal Service Provider Traffic Forwarding

  • Lesson 1: Link-State Routing Protocols
  • Lesson 2: Implementing OSPF
  • Lesson 3: Implementing IS-IS
  • Lesson 4: Implementing Route Redistribution
  • Lesson 5: MPLS Basics

Module 4:External Service Provider Routing

  • Lesson 1: Introducing BGP
  • Lesson 2: Understanding BGP Path Attributes
  • Lesson 3: Establishing BGP Sessions and Processing BGP Routes
  • Lesson 4: Configuring Basic BGP

Module 5:ACLs and IP Address Translation

  • Lesson 1: Implementing Access Control Lists
  • Lesson 2: Transitioning to IPv6

Module 6:Cisco Service Provider Platforms

  • Lesson 1: Cisco Hardware Platform Placement
  • Lesson 2: Describing Cisco IOS XR Software Architecture and Features
  • Lesson 3: Explaining Software Maintenance Operations on Cisco IOS XR and Cisco IOS XE
  • Lesson 4: Explaining Configuration Management with Cisco IOS XR Software