Advanced Services - Cisco IOS XR IPv6 Routing for Service Providers (XIPV6R)

This course is for technical professionals who design, implement, and operate IPv6 routing protocols in a service provider network of routers running Cisco IOS XR Software. The following are considered the primary audience for this course:

• Network operations center (NOC) engineers
• Network and senior engineers
• Support engineers

Following are the prerequisites for this course:

• Students should have knowledge of the Cisco IOS XR Software configuration syntax to the extent covered in the Cisco CRS-1 Essentials or Cisco XR12000 Series Essentials course.
• Students attending this class should be able to establish, without assistance, a configuration for Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) with Routing Policy Language (RPL) policies as accomplished in the Cisco IOS XR IPv4 Routing course labs.
• Students must have a basic understanding of MPLS configuration and operation as covered in the Cisco CRS-1 Essentials or Cisco XR12000 Series Essentials course.
• Students must have a basic understanding of IPv6 concepts as covered in IPv6 Fundamentals (IPVSF).

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Characterize the types of IPv6 addresses, changes made to IP packet header, and how neighbor discovery takes place
• Describe the various integration technologies that can be employed in implementing IPv6
• Describe the changes made to IPv4 routing protocols to support IPv6
• Configure IPv6 routing protocols on Cisco IOS XR Software routers and verify operation
• Configure and verify operation of IPv6 multicast
• Implement IPv6 provider edge (6PE) in an IPv4/MPLS environment
• Implement IPv6 VPN provider edge (6VPE) in an IPv4/MPLS environment

The course contents is as follows:

• Pv6 Foundations Review (Addressing, Packet Header)
• IPv6 Operation (Router Advertisements, Neighbor Discovery) and Configuration
• OSPFv3 Routing
• IS-IS Routing for IPv6
• MP-BGP Routing for IPv6
• Other IPv6 Routing Protocols (EIGRP, RIPng)
• IPv6 Provider Edge (6PE)
• IPv6 VPN Provider Edge (6VPE)
• IPv6 Multicast
• Lab Outline

The lab outline is as follows:

• Enabling IPv6 on Cisco IOS XR Software and implementing static IPv6 routing
• Implementing OSPFv3 routing
• Implementing IS-IS routing for IPv6 integrated with existing IPv4
• Implementing MP-BGP routing for IPv6 over existing IPv4 peerings and IPv6 peerings
• Implementing 6PE on existing provider edge routers using route reflectors and existing IPv4-signalled MPLS paths
• Implementing 6VPE on IPv4-signalled MPLS L3 VPN baseline
• Implementing IPv6 multicast using PIM with static rendezvous points, bootstrap routers, and embedded rendezvous points