• Describe MPLS.
• Explain how MPLS works.
• Describe the interaction between OSPF/IS-IS/BGP and MPLS.
• Describe MPLS traffic engineering.

Introduction
What is MPLS?, Routers and problems with routing table lookups. Hands on: Building the base network for later exercises.

MPLS Technology
Label Switch Routers, Label Distribution Protocol, What MPLS does, How MPLS works, CE routers, PE routers, P routers. Hands on: Basic MPLS configuration.

MPLS operation
How MPLS works (detailed examples), MPLS protocol stack. Hands on: Analysing LDP packets.

MPLS History
Tag switching, Layer 3 switching, MPLS interaction with ATM, New applications of MPLS, VPNs, MPLS standards.

MPLS Traffic Engineering
Constraint based routing, Path selection procedures, Path signalling, Data forwarding, Forwarding tables, RSVP-TE, CR-LDP. Hands on: MPLS TE.

MPLS VPNs (MPLS-VPN)
MPLS concepts and goals, routing information exchanges, forwarding mechanisms, MPLS interaction with OSPF, BGP and customer routing protocols, backbone and VPN addressing, extended communities. Hands on: vrf tables, MPLS and BGP, MPLS VPNs.