Advanced Services’ Cisco 7600 Series Essentials (7600)
v2
Course Duration
Five days.
This five-day class provides you with the information required to
optimally deploy a network of
Cisco® 7600 Series Routers. You will learn the primary points of
the system architecture and
features so you can use the correct features for your network.
Hands-on lab sessions enable you to
practice the skills needed to deploy a Cisco 7600 Series Router.
You will learn to apply quality of
service (QoS) techniques, deploy Multiprotocol
Label Switching (MPLS) Layer 3 VPNs in addition
to Layer 2 Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS)
and Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) VPNs, and
utilize Stateful Switchover (SSO) and
Nonstop Forwarding (NSF). You will also explore Cisco 7600
Series packet-forwarding techniques and the supported Cisco
supervisor engines, line cards,
shared port adapters (SPAs), and SPA
interface processors (SIPs) to help improve the
system’s
performance. You will gain the knowledge and skills to use the
high-availability features of the
Cisco 7600 Series to make sure your network benefits the most.
Course Duration
Five days.
Target Audience
This course is intended for network professionals who implement
and support large enterprises or
service providers that have a need to deploy and maintain Cisco
7600 Series Routers.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to perform the
following tasks:
● Describe the power management
features of Cisco 7600 Series Routers
● Configure the high-availability
features of the Cisco 7600 Series: SSO and NSF
● Characterize the architecture of the
Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 720
and Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32, including the
forwarding engine and switch
fabric
● Describe the packet flow in the Cisco
7600 Series for unicast and multicast
● Deploy software resiliency features
● Implement QoS
features on Cisco Catalyst LAN ports, Optical Services Module (OSM) WAN
ports, FlexWAN ports, and SIP/SPA ports
● Deploy Layer 3 MPLS VPNs on the Cisco 7600 Series
● Describe MPLS QoS
differentiated service modes in the Cisco 7600 Series
● Deploy basic Layer 2 EoMPLS and VPLS VPNs on the Cisco
7600 Series
● Describe packet flow and packet
recirculation
● Characterize the line-card
architecture of the Cisco 7600 Series
● Identify different switching modes in
the Cisco 7600 Series
● Learn about the available methods to
protect the Supervisor Engine 720 from denial-ofservice
attacks
Course Prerequisites
Following are the prerequisites for this course.
● Experience using Cisco IOS® Software
for configuration of IP, MPLS VPN, Metro Ethernet,
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), BPPBorder
Gateway Protocol (BGP), and Intermediate
System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS).
● Basic understanding of QoS Operations
Course Outline
● Module 1: Cisco 7600 Series Router
System Overview
◦ Router Functions
◦ Chassis
Configurations
◦ Router Interface
Breadth
◦ System Images
● Module 2: Cisco 7600 Series Router
Hardware Overview
◦ Chassis
Components
◦ Supervisor Engine
720 and 32 Overview
◦ Monitoring
Traffic
◦ Line-Card
Architecture
◦ SPA Interface
Processors
● Module 3: Detailed Supervisor Engine
Architecture
◦ Supervisor Engine
720 Hardware and Architecture
◦ Supervisor Engine
32 Hardware and Architecture
◦ Forwarding
Architecture
◦ Bus Switching
Modes
◦ Router Boot
Process
● Module 4: Packet Flows in the Cisco
7600 Series
◦ Packet Forwarding
◦ Unicast and Multicast Packet Forwarding
◦ Forwarding
Decision Process
◦ Control Plane
Forwarding, Policing, and Rate Limiting
● Module 5: High Availability
◦ Redundancy and
High-Availability Features
◦ SSO Operation
◦ Cisco 7600 Series
Nonstop Forwarding
◦ Cisco 7600 Series
Software Resiliency Features
● Module 6: Cisco 7600 Series Router QoS
◦ QoS Architecture
◦ QoS Command Sets
◦ QoS Functions and Concepts
◦ Prioritizing
Traffic
◦ Implicit Marking
◦ QoS Modes
◦ Output Policies
◦ Policing and
Marking
● Module 7: MPLS on Cisco 7600 Series
Routers
◦ MPLS
Functionality
◦ MPLS
Packet-Processing
◦ MPLS QoS Differentiated Service Modes
◦ MPLS Packet
Recirculation
● Module 8: Layer 2 EoMPLS
and VPLS VPNs on Cisco 7600 Series Routers
◦ What Are EoMPLS and VPLS?
◦ EoMPLS and VPLS Functionality and
Components
◦ Configuration
Basics for EoMPLS and VPLS
◦ Options Specific
to the Cisco 7600 Series
◦ Layer 2 and Layer
3 VPN Comparison
Lab Outline
● Lab 1: System Familiarization
Explore the classroom lab hardware and configurations. Verify that
the hardware is
configured according to the lab diagram, including active
interfaces and remote neighbors.
● Lab 2: Boot Process and File Systems
Use commands to determine the running image and file system
configuration. Review the
Cisco 7600 Series boot process and the Cisco IOS Software commands
used to manage
the file systems.
● Lab 3: Packet Flows
Track packet flows through the Cisco 7600 Series system and
observe the effects of packet
flow on CPU utilization. Configure and verify the operation of
control plane policing and
hardware rate limiting.
● Lab 4: Stateful
Switchover and Nonstop Forwarding
Explore a practical application of the capabilities of SSO and NSF
using redundant
supervisor engines (Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series/7600 Series
Supervisor Engine 720-3BXL).
Configure Router Processor Redundancy Plus (RPR+) and NSF/SSO
redundancy operating
modes and verify their functionality by comparing packet loss
during switchovers in the two
modes.
● Lab 5: QoS
Part 1: Policing and Marking
Create and apply access lists, class maps, and traffic policing to
mark traffic received on an
interface. Configure and verify policing and marking on LAN and
SIP/SPA ports.
● Lab 6: QoS
Part 2: Service Provider Scenario
Configure a service provider QoS
scenario and use a traffic generator to verify the
effectiveness of the network deployment.
● Lab 7: MPLS VPN
Create an MPLS VPN and monitor and verify its correct operation.
● Lab 8: Layer 2 VPNs:
EoMPLS and VPLS
Create both EoMPLS and VPLS Layer 2 VPNs, then monitor and verify their correct
operation.
