SPEDGE – Implementing Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Edge Network Services v1.2

Short Course Description

5 Day

Course Overview

Implementing Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Edge Network Services (SPEDGE) v1.2 is a five-day course that is designed to help students prepare for the Cisco CCNP SP certification. The SPEDGE course is a component of the CCNP SP curriculum.
The SPEDGE course is designed to provide service provider professionals with information on the use of service provider VPN solutions. The goal is to train professionals to enable service provider point of presence to provide Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs. The SPEDGE training reinforces the instruction by providing students with hands-on labs to ensure they thoroughly understand how to implement VPNs within their networks.
The course also includes classroom activities with remote labs that are useful to gain practical skills on deploying Cisco IOS/IOS XE and Cisco IOS XR features to operate and support service provider network.

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

• SPNGNG1 and SPNGN2, SPROUTE and SPADVROUTE and SPCORE Recommended

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• VPN technologies used in the service provider environment
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN peer-to-peer architecture
• Steps to provide MPLS Layer 3 VPN service in service provider networks
• Use the MPLS Layer 3 VPN model to implement managed services and Internet access
• Layer 2 VPNs and Ethernet services
• Traffic policing and shaping, including token bucket, dual token bucket, and dual-rate policing