• Experience using the ciscoo IOS software command-line Interface (CLI)
• Proficiency in routing fundamentals and IP addressing
• CCNA or the Equivalent networking knowledge and experience

• Identify the critical factors for availability, scalability, and manageability
• Impliment an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP, either OSPF or IS-IS) into a large-scale hierarchical network using best current practices for scalability 
• Impliment BGP into Large-scale hierarchical networks using best practicies for scalability
• Control routing policy by influencing the bgp path selection process using route maps, prefix lists, and community strings
• impliment multihoming strategies using multiexit discriminators (MEDs) and local preference
• Impliment and verify MPLS functionality in a large-scale network
• Impliment and verify MPLS VPN connectivity in intra-autonomus-system environments
• Impliment and verify MPLS traffic engineering practices
• Impliment Layer 2 VPNs using Any Transport over MPLS (AToM)

The course Outline is as Follows:

• Course Introduction
• Get Started with Core Networking
• Impliment Link State Protocols (OSPF or IS-IS)
• Impliment BGP
• BGP Scaling Techniques
• Impliment BGP Policy Control
• Impliment and Troubleshoot MPLS
• Impliment Intranet and Extranet MPLS VPNs
• Impliment MPLS Traffic Engineering
• Impliment Layer 2 NPNs with AToM

• Connect to the Lab Equipment
• Configure the Basics
• Configure Interfaces and IP connectivity
• Configure and Verify OSPF of Is-IS in the Core Network
• Configure and Verify Basic Interior Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP)
• Configure and Verify Exterior Border Gateway (EBGP)
• Scale BGP with Peer Templates and Route Reflectors
• Configure BGP Route Filtering
• Configure Multihoming Policy
• Configure and Verify MPLS
• Configure Intranet MPLS VPNs
• Configure Extranet MPLS VPNs
• Configure and Verify MPLS Traffic Engineering (MPLS-TE)
• Impliment, Verify, and Troubleshoot EoMPLS