Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers

The Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers training teaches the underlying foundations of the Internet and new-world technologies such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). It prepares students to design and implement efficient, optimal, and trouble-free BGP networks covering:

• The theory of BGP and configuration of BGP on Cisco IOS routers
• Detailed troubleshooting information and hands-on exercises that provide students with the skills needed to configure and troubleshoot BGP networks in customer environments
• BGP network design issues and usage rules for various BGP features

This training will help you:

• Configure BGP on Cisco IOS routers
• Configure and troubleshoot BGP networks in customer environments
• Understand network design issues and usage rules for various BGP features

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Describe how to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot basic BGP to enable interdomain routing in a network scenario with multiple domains
• Describe how to use BGP policy controls to influence the BGP route selection process in a network scenario in which you must support connections to multiple ISPs
• Describe how to use BGP attributes to influence the route selection process in a network scenario where you must support multiple connections.
• Describe how to successfully connect the customer network to the Internet in a network scenario in which multiple connections must be implemented
• Describe how to configure the service provider network to behave as a transit AS in a typical implementation with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems.
• Enable route reflection as possible solution to BGP scaling issues in a typical service provider network with multiple BGP connections to other autonomous systems.
• Describe the available BGP tools and features to optimize the scalability of the BGP routing protocol in a typical BGP network

The primary audience for this course includes:

• Network administrators
• Network engineers
• Network managers
• Systems engineers

Before enrolling in this training, you should have knowledge in the following areas:

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Cisco IOS Software configuration
• Configuring and troubleshooting RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and IS-IS

Skills and knowledge equivalent to those learned in:

• Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
• Implementing Cisco Advanced Routing and Services (ENARSI)
• Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Core Technologies (SPCOR)

This course does not have an exam.