My SR Guided Learning

Overview

This course offers eight instructor-led 3-hour sessions over eight consecutive weeks. It is designed for students who begin with limited knowledge of IP and Ethernet technologies. Upon successfully completing this course, students will be familiar with the basics of the TCP/IP layered model, Ethernet, Internet addressing and packet forwarding, routing protocols, MPLS tunnelling, and Virtual Private Network (VPN) services. All use cases and lab exercises are based on the model-driven command-line interface (MD-CLI).

This course covers the same content as our 4-day IP Networks and Services Fundamentals course.
 

Learning objectives:

By completing this course, you’ll gain the skills to:
 

• Describe the basics of the TCP/IP layered model

• Identify where in the network the products of the Nokia Service Router family are being used

• Perform basic configuration with the command line interface of the Nokia 7750 Service Router

• Explain the purpose and operation of the Ethernet protocol

• Describe the Internet Protocol (IP) addressing and forwarding process

• Explain the difference between static routing and dynamic routing protocols

• Identify common routing protocols and explain the basics of OSPF and BGP

• Explain what a VPN service is

• List the VPN types supported on the Nokia 7750 Service Router

• Describe how MPLS tunnels are used to support VPN services

• Identify the different service components and the required configuration steps on the Nokia 7750 Service Router

Prerequisites:

• Experience with binary numbers operations.

• Basic knowledge of Ethernet and IP technologies is an asset. 
   

Exam and certification

• This course will help to prepare participants for exam 4A0-100 IP Networks and Services Fundamentals, which is required for the Nokia Certified Network Routing Specialist I (NRS I)

Course details

Duration: 8 x 3-hour weekly virtual sessions

Price:  €2400 per seat

Note: In addition to the weekly sessions, you’ll also need to dedicate approximately 4-6 hours/week to self-paced reading and lab exercises.

Schedule and registration

Overview

This course offers five instructor-led 3-hour sessions over five consecutive weeks. It examines the operation and use of the standards-based Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) routing protocol.  The course begins with a review of IP routing and the different methods available to populate the routing table. It briefly covers static routing and covers the IS-IS routing protocol in detail. It also covers concepts such as route redistribution, route filtering, equal-cost multipath (ECMP) routing, bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD), and IP fast re-route based on loop-free alternative (LFA) paths. Configuration of both IPv4 and IPv6 routing is included. All use cases and lab exercises are based on the model-driven command-line interface (MD-CLI). Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain the operation of IS-IS and be able to configure and verify complex networks using the IS-IS protocol.

This course covers the same content as our 3-day Nokia IS-IS Routing Protocol course.
 

Learning objectives:

By completing this course, you’ll gain the skills to:
 

• Describe the Internet Protocol (IP) addressing and forwarding process
• Explain the difference between static routing and dynamic routing protocols
• Identify common interior and exterior routing protocols
• Describe the benefits of equal-cost multipath routing (ECMP)Describe route redistribution and route filtering
• Explain the main characteristics of link state routing protocols
• Explain the messages, adjacency states, and link state advertisements of IS-IS
• List the steps required to configure IS-IS for IPv4 and IPv6

Prerequisites:

• It is strongly recommended to have completed the Nokia IP Networks and Services Fundamentals course. Alternatively, it is recommended to have working knowledge of Ethernet and IP routing, and familiarity with the model-driven command-line interface of the service router operating system (SR OS MD-CLI).
   

Exam and certification

• This course will help to prepare participants for exam 4A0-112 Nokia IS-IS Routing Protocol, which is required for the Nokia Certified Network Routing Specialist II (NRS II) and the Nokia Certified Routing Architect (SRA).

Course details

Duration: 5 x 3-hour weekly virtual sessions

Price:  €1800 per seat

Note: In addition to the weekly sessions, you’ll also need to dedicate approximately 4-6 hours/week to self-paced reading and lab exercises.

Schedule and registration

Overview

This course offers five instructor-led 3-hour sessions over five consecutive weeks. It examines the operation and use of the standards-based Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol.   The course begins with a review of IP routing and the different methods available to populate the routing table. It briefly covers static routing and covers the OSPF routing protocol in detail. It also covers concepts such as route redistribution, route filtering, equal-cost multipath (ECMP) routing, bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD), and IP fast re-route based on loop-free alternative (LFA) paths. Configuration of both IPv4 and IPv6 routing is included. All use cases and lab exercises are based on the model-driven command-line interface (MD-CLI). Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain the operation of OSPF and be able to configure and verify complex networks using the OSPF protocol.

This course covers the same content as our 3-day Nokia OSPF Routing Protocol course.
 

Learning objectives:

By completing this course, you’ll gain the skills to:
 

• Describe the Internet Protocol (IP) addressing and forwarding process
• Explain the difference between static routing and dynamic routing protocols
• Identify common interior and exterior routing protocols
• Describe the benefits of equal-cost multipath routing (ECMP)
• Describe route redistribution and route filtering
• Explain the main characteristics of link state routing protocols
• Explain the messages, adjacency states, and link state advertisements of OSPF
• List the steps required to configure OSPF for IPv4 and IPv6

Prerequisites:

• It is strongly recommended to have completed the Nokia IP Networks and Services Fundamentals course. Alternatively, it is recommended to have working knowledge of Ethernet and IP routing, and familiarity with the model-driven command-line interface of the service router operating system (SR OS MD-CLI).
   

Exam and certification

• This course will help to prepare participants for exam 4A0-113 Nokia OSPF Routing Protocol, which is required for the Nokia Certified Network Routing Specialist II (NRS II) and the Nokia Certified Routing Architect (SRA)

Course details

Duration: 5x 3-hour weekly virtual sessions

Price:  €1800 per seat

Note: In addition to the weekly sessions, you’ll also need to dedicate approximately 4-6 hours/week to self-paced reading and lab exercises.

Schedule and registration

Overview

This course offers four instructor-led 3-hour sessions over four consecutive weeks. It provides students with the essential BGP knowledge required to take full advantage of the Nokia Services Architecture course, specifically in topics related to layer-3 VPN services.  This course also describes how MPLS tunnels can be stitched together by having BGP advertise labels in addition to IP prefixes. This course starts with basic concepts that include BGP messages, peering sessions, path attributes carried by route updates, as well as the list of criteria used by BGP to select the “best” route when the same prefix is being advertised by two or more routers. The course also describes different address families supported by BGP in addition to the traditional IPv4 prefixes. The course concludes with a module that explains route reflectors as a means to improve BGP scalability within an autonomous system. All use cases and lab exercises are based on the model-driven command-line interface (MD-CLI).

This course covers the same content as our 2-day Nokia Border Gateway Protocol Fundamentals for Services course.
 

Learning objectives:

By completing this course, you’ll gain the skills to:
 

• Describe the role of BGP
• Describe how a BGP-capable router selects the best path if it receives more than one update describing the same address
• Explain how route policies can be used to modify the default behavior of a BGP speaker
• Explain that BGP was originally designed to exchange IPv4 prefixes only, but it was later extended to exchange other types of addresses as well
• List some of the most important address families supported by BGP, including IPv4, IPv6, VPN-IPv4, VPN-IPv6, Label-IPv4, Label-IPv6, and EVPN
• Explain that iBGP peers typically require a full mesh of iBGP sessions, which is not a scalable approach
• Describe the concept of route reflector and explain how it improves scalability by relaxing the full-mesh requirement

Prerequisites:

• Nokia IS-IS Routing Protocol or Nokia OSPF Routing Protocol course
• Having completed the Nokia Multiprotocol Label Switching course would be beneficial for some topics
   

Exam and certification

• This course will help to prepare participants for exam 4A0-114 Nokia Border Gateway Protocol Fundamentals for Services, which is required for the Nokia Certified Network Routing Specialist II (NRS II).

Course details

Duration: 4 x 3-hour weekly virtual sessions

Price:  €1200 per seat

Note: In addition to the weekly sessions, you’ll also need to dedicate approximately 4-6 hours/week to self-paced reading and lab exercises.

Schedule and registration

Overview

This course offers seven instructor-led 3-hour sessions over seven consecutive weeks. It covers MPLS concepts, terminology and signaling protocols such as Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) and Resource Reservation Protocol with Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE). It discusses the control-plane and the data-plane behavior of the protocols. The configuration and signaling of intra-area and inter-area MPLS tunnels with traffic engineering constraints such as admin groups, shared-risk groups and maximum number of hops using RSVP-TE are covered in detail. It also covers tunnel resiliency approaches used by both RSVP-TE and LDP. Upon successfully completing this course, students will be familiar with the implementation, monitoring and basic troubleshooting of an MPLS network. All use cases and lab exercises are based on the model-driven command-line interface (MD-CLI).

This course covers the same content as our 4-day Nokia Multiprotocol Label Switching course.
 

Learning objectives:

By completing this course, you’ll gain the skills to:
 

• Explain the basic concepts of MPLS technology such as forwarding equivalence classes (FECs), labels and label stacks, label distribution, LSPs and MPLS packet forwarding

• Describe the MPLS header structure and explain the label operations of pop, push and swap
• Explain how LDP works to distribute labels for FECs and establish LSPs
• Describe traffic engineering and its advantage in an MPLS network
• Identify the traffic engineering extensions made to the IGP routing protocols and understand how they are used with CSPF to establish traffic engineered LSPs
• Demonstrate how RSVP-TE is used to establish traffic engineered LSPs using RSVP signaling messages to distribute labels, specify constraints for the LSP and request LSP protection mechanisms
• Describe the concept of a shared risk link group (SRLG) and its use in traffic engineering
• Configure an MPLS-based core network using LDP, RSVP-TE, and hierarchical network using Inter-Area TE LSP
• List the various LSP protection mechanisms (secondary/standby LSP, fast reroutes and LFA)
• Configure RSVP-TE LSPs using each of the possible protection mechanisms
• Describe MPLS for IP routing (MPLS shortcuts)
• Configure 6PE on a network of 7750 SRs
• Understand how to manage, monitor and perform basic troubleshooting of LDP/RSVP-TE-established LSPs on the Nokia 7750 Service Router (SR) and Nokia 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS)

Prerequisites:

• Nokia IP Networks and Services Fundamentals or equivalent knowledge.

• Nokia OSPF Routing Protocol or Nokia IS-IS Routing Protocol
   

Exam and certification

• This course will help to prepare participants for exam 4A0-103 Nokia Multiprotocol Label Switching, which is required for the Nokia Certified Network Routing Specialist II (NRS II) and the Nokia Certified Routing Architect (SRA).

Course details

Duration: 7 x 3-hour weekly virtual sessions

Price:  €2400 per seat

Note: In addition to the weekly sessions, you’ll also need to dedicate approximately 4-6 hours/week to self-paced reading and lab exercises.

Schedule and registration

Overview

This course offers six instructor-led 3-hour sessions over six consecutive weeks. It introduces Nokia’s implementation of the service concept. Students are walked through the steps for deploying virtual private network (VPN) and residential services in a service provider’s multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network. Several services supported in the Nokia service routing portfolio are included - Internet enhanced service (IES), virtual private wire service (VPWS), virtual private LAN service (VPLS), and virtual private routed network service (VPRN). It covers the coupling of a layer-2 service with a layer-3 interface, including spoke termination of one service into another and routed VPLS. Some troubleshooting of service-related issues and debugging is covered. It also covers service mirroring and some service OAM commands. All use cases and lab exercises are based on the model-driven command-line interface (MD-CLI).

This course covers the same content as our 4-day Nokia Services Architecture course.
 

Learning objectives:

By completing this course, you’ll gain the skills to:
 

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of Nokia services

• Differentiate between a service access point (SAP) and network ports

• Explain what is a service delivery point (SDP) and differentiate between mesh and spoke SDPs

• Differentiate between transport tunnels and service tunnels

• Understand the implications of maximum transmission unit (MTU) size

• Use the correct OAM tools to analyze a configured system

• Configure an Epipe service

• Manage Epipe services given an existing infrastructure

• Describe the purpose and operation of a VPLS service

• Explain the different types of SAP encapsulations and describe their behavior

• Configure a VPLS service

• Define and configure an Internet enhanced service (IES)

• Configure and verify the operation of a remote and distributed mirror service

• Identify the protocols and technologies required to implement VPRN service

• Explain the interaction between the control and data plane of a VPRN service

• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot an IPv4 and IPv6 VPRN Service

• Describe the operation of a Routed VPLS Service

Prerequisites:

• Nokia IP Networks and Services Fundamentals or equivalent knowledge.
• Nokia Multiprotocol Label Switching
   

Exam and certification

• This course will help to prepare participants for exam 4A0-104 Nokia Services Architecture, which is required for the Nokia Certified Network Routing Specialist II (NRS II) and the Nokia Certified Routing Architect (SRA).

Course details

Duration: 6 x 3-hour weekly virtual sessions

Price:  €2400 per seat

Note: In addition to the weekly sessions, you’ll also need to dedicate approximately 4-6 hours/week to self-paced reading and lab exercises.

Schedule and registration