What you’ll learn
- System Installers
- System Integrators
- System Administrators
- Network Administrators
- Solution Designers
Technology areas
Service Provider
Training overview
Enroll in this training to understand the Cisco IOS XR Broadband Network Gateway’s architecture and operational principles. You’ll learn to set up and validate Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) in Broadband Network Gateway setups, develop traffic control policies for subscribers, and manage subscriber sessions effectively. Moreover, you’ll gain expertise in prioritizing subscriber traffic using QoS and implementing various subscriber features. Additionally, you’ll master redundancy deployment strategies for subscriber sessions, while also acquiring insights into protocols, solutions, and designs crucial for advancing into professional and expert networking roles.
Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills you are expected to have before attending this training are:
- Experience working with Cisco IOS XR Software-based platforms
- Basic understanding of routing protocols and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
- Basic understanding of AAA functions
Objectives
- Describe the architecture and function of the Cisco IOS XR Broadband Network Gateway
- Configure and verify AAA in a Broadband Network Gateway deployment
- Define policies to control subscriber traffic
- Establish and verify subscriber sessions
- Prioritize subscriber traffic using QoS
- Implement subscriber features
- Deploy redundancy for subscriber sessions
Course Outline
- Broadband Network Gateway Overview
- BNG Architecture
- BNG Software and Hardware Requirements
- Configuring and Verifying Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
- AAA Overview and Operation
- RADIUS Operation and Configuration
- DIAMETER Operation and Configuration
- Activating Control Policy
- Control Policy Overview
- Creating and Activating Class Maps and Policy Maps
- Defining Dynamic Templates
- Establishing Subscriber Sessions
- Subscriber Session Overview
- Establishing IPoE and PPPoE Sessions
- DHCP Operation
- Subscriber Interface Neighbor Discovery
- Static Session and Session Limits
- BGP Subscriber Support
- Deploying Quality of Service
- Quality of Service Overview and QoS Feature Support
- RADIUS Based Policing
- Share Policy Instances and Merged Policy-Maps
- Configuring Subscriber Features
- Managing Control Plane Traffic
- Controlling Packet Forwarding
- Providing Multicast Services
- Routing and Traffic Mirroring on Subscriber Sessions
- BNG Geo Redundancy and XML Support
- Geo Redundancy Overview and Deployment Models
- Configuring and Verifying Geo Redundancy
- XML Support
Lab Outline
- Configuring and Verifying Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
- Activating Control Policy
- Establishing Subscriber Sessions
- Configuring QoS
- Configuring Subscriber Features
- Configuring BNG Geo Redundancy
