Re: New CCIE SP Blueprint

I'm happy about some of the changes. I've been teaching RPL for 7 years. Fun
Stuff.

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Paul Negron
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Senior Technical Instructor
www.micronicstraining.com
> From: Francisco Hidalgo Sola <fhidalgosola_at_yahoo.com.ar>
> Reply-To: Francisco Hidalgo Sola <fhidalgosola_at_yahoo.com.ar>
> Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 07:09:22 -0700 (PDT)
> To: <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
> Subject: New CCIE SP Blueprint
> 
> I've been analyzing the new SP blueprint and I have some thoughts and doubts
> to 
> share and hopefully get some feedback.
> 
> 
> Extended blueprint:
> https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-10145
> 
> I've been trying to nail
> down what will be the actual IOS used on the devices,
> since from the
> blueprint we know that a 12.2 (33) SR IOS version will be used on
> the 7600
> routers, but there are many different revisions to it. Searching
> through the
> features, I think that 12.2 (33) SRE is the one that includes all
> features of
> the blueprint, the feature that requires this IOS specific version
> is MP2P
> TE. One thing to have in mind for this version is that it changes
> completely
> the way to debug multicast packets.
> 
> My thoughts/doubts:
> 
> 1. Is TE supported
> on IPv6? I've seen that the TE router id  can only be an IPv4
> address and
> this is what's used to build the paths, so if the network is pure
> IPv6, the
> path computation fails, maybe it's done in another way?
> 
> 2. What do the 5.1
> and 5.2 points on the extended blueprint mean?, I don't
> understand what does
> that imply or what special considerations we should have,
> maybe QoS for 5.1?:
> 5.1. Managed Voice/Video services traversing the core
>  
> 5.1.1. Traverse
> Voice/video packet
> 5.1.2. Traverse call signal packet
>  
> 5.2. Managed Security
> services  traversing the core
>  
> 5.2.1. Traverse IKE packet
> 5.2.2. Traverse
> ESP, AH packet
> 5.2.3. Traverse SSL packet
> 
> 3. Since the 7600 are supposedly
> simulated, what does that imply in regard to
> NSF/SSO, can it be tested or
> configured on a simulated platform? (dual
> supervisors?)
> 
> 
> 4. There's
> "inter-domain TE" and "inter-area TE" on the blueprint, what does
> "inter-domain" mean? is it inter-AS, or just another way to say inter-area for
> ISIS?
> 
> 5. Is there any info on the number of each device that will be there?,
> specially 
> the number of switches. I think we should expect two XR, 6 or 8
> 7600 and two or 
> four ME3400's (not counting BB's)
> 
> 6. Provider  bridges is
> not supported on ME3400 switches, and these are the only
> switches on the
> Lab, does this mean that this cannot be tested?
> 
> 
> 7. VPLS, can it be tested
> on simulated 7600?, if not, I guess any VPLS would go
> on the XR's.
> Ultimately, can we expect the level of the lab to be harder then the previous
> one or more or less the same? I know this is highly speculative, but how is it
> when the R&S lab get's updated for instance? (just the  lab)
> 
> 
> Francisco
> 
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