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Implementing Cisco MPLS Specialization

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Implementing Cisco MPLS Specialization

Optimize MPLS for Scalable Network Solutions. Discover how MPLS quickly forwards packets using labels, bypassing Layer 3 routing.

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Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers

What you'll learn

  • Explain MPLS features, label assignment, distribution, and the peer-to-peer architecture for routing and forwarding

  • Understand Cisco IOS commands and their role in configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting MPLS and VPN operations

  • Explore how MPLS VPN models enable managed services and internet access, and evaluate various access implementations

  • Gain insights into MPLS Traffic Engineering and its importance in optimizing network performance

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July 2025

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Specialization - 6 course series

What you'll learn

  • Describe the basic concepts, structure, and function of MPLS labels and MPLS label stack

  • Identify the different services in which you can use MPLS

  • Describe how LDP neighbors are discovered

Skills you'll gain

Category: Multiprotocol Label Switching
Category: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Category: TCP/IP
Category: Network Engineering
Category: Network Architecture
Category: Network Routing
Category: Network Routers
Category: Network Protocols
Category: Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

What you'll learn

  • Describe how the LIB, FIB, and LFIB tables are populated with label information

  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and learn how convergence occurs in a frame-mode MPLS network on Cisco IOS platforms

  • Explain the features of Cisco Express Forwarding switch and configure frame-mode MPLS on Cisco IOS platforms

Skills you'll gain

Category: Multiprotocol Label Switching
Category: Routing Protocols
Category: Network Troubleshooting
Category: Network Routing
Category: Network Protocols
Category: Network Monitoring
Category: Network Planning And Design
Category: Debugging
Category: Data Structures
Category: Network Architecture
Category: System Configuration

What you'll learn

  • Identify the major terminology and topology of VPNs

  • Describe the major architectural components and routing requirements of an MPLS VPN

  • Describe how packets are forwarded in an MPLS VPN environment

Skills you'll gain

Category: Network Engineering
Category: Scalability
Category: Computer Networking
Category: Network Planning And Design
Category: Network Performance Management
Category: Network Troubleshooting
Category: Border Gateway Protocol
Category: Network Administration

What you'll learn

  • Describe the usage of VRF instances in an MPLS VPN environment, and configure VRF tables, MP-BGP, OSPF sessions between CE and PE routers

  • Configure small-scale routing protocols (static, RIP, and EIGRP) between CE and PE routers

  • Monitor and troubleshoot MPLS VPN operations

Skills you'll gain

Category: Multiprotocol Label Switching
Category: Routing Protocols
Category: Border Gateway Protocol
Category: Network Routing
Category: Network Monitoring
Category: Network Troubleshooting
Category: Network Routers
Category: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Category: Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Category: Wide Area Networks
Category: Command-Line Interface
Category: System Configuration

What you'll learn

  • Identify the characteristics of overlapping VPNs and the central services VPN solution

  • Identify advanced VRF import and export features and characteristics of the managed CE routers service

  • Implement Internet access as a separate VPN service on an MPLS VPN backbone

Skills you'll gain

Category: Multiprotocol Label Switching
Category: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Category: Border Gateway Protocol
Category: Computer Networking
Category: Servers
Category: Network Routing
Category: Service Level
Category: Network Planning And Design
Category: Network Routers
Category: Network Architecture
Category: Wide Area Networks
Category: Routing Protocols

What you'll learn

  • Identify basic TE and MPLS TE concepts, components, and operation

  • Create and configure MPLS TE

  • Monitor basic MPLS TE on Cisco IOS platforms

Skills you'll gain

Category: Multiprotocol Label Switching
Category: Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Category: Network Monitoring
Category: Algorithms
Category: System Configuration
Category: Network Administration
Category: Network Planning And Design
Category: Network Troubleshooting
Category: Network Engineering
Category: Network Performance Management
Category: Network Protocols
Category: Routing Protocols
Category: Network Routing

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