From: cciestudy (cciestudy@mid-world.net)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2009 - 13:51:53 ARST
I can see MPLS being increased for the SP lab. At least with my customers,
I don't see FR going away for a while. Even when they do change to "mpls"
it is entirely done on the provider side. You end up peering with
frame-relay and a routing protocol like BGP.
But, since when does Cisco testing correlate to real-life situations?
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Felix Nkansah
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:39 AM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: If MPLS replaces FR in R&S lab
Hi,
There arose some rumors in time past about Cisco possibly replacing FR in
the r&s lab with mpls sooner or later.
The thought of this typically sent shivers through the spines of most r&s
candidates.
IMHO, I believe that would make the r&s lab easier than it is with FR unless
it is offset by other sections.
Candidates configuring mpls CEs would literally do nothing than assign IP
addresses to the interfaces and introduce them to the IGP. Even my grandma
can do that!
As the mpls core setup is usually transparent to the end-CEs, candidates
would no longer have to worry about encapsulations, lmi, dlci, frts and the
various nuances associated with the FR technology.
Unless of course cisco expects r&s candidates to get their hands wet with
some real mpls technology configurations which typically require intimacy
with the Ps and PEs. I doubt that would be the case though. That would be SP
stuff.
Anyway, I just felt like blogging on GS :-) :-)
Felix
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