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MPLS OAM (Half-Day)

Course Overview:
The MPLS Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) tutorial describes OAM capabilities in the data, control and management planes and highlights key applications for specific capabilities. Insights into ongoing industry standards work on defining capabilities for managing MPLS networks and examples of their use to support reliable and SLA sensitive MPLS services and networks are provided.

Course Outline:
Section 1: Background and Requirements
Section 2: FCAPS
Section 3: MPLS Challenges
Section 4: Data plane Toolbox
Section 5: Control plane Toolbox
Section 6: Management plane Toolbox

Intended Audience:
This course is intended for those who have a basic understanding of MPLS and want to learn more about tools to manage and operate MPLS networks. It is assumed that the attendee has a basic understanding of MPLS protocols and how MPLS packet forwarding operates. The intended audience for this tutorial are those who work in network operations, network design, applications engineering, systems engineering and product management.