Re: New CCIE SP Blueprint

Hi Guys,

CCIE SP v3.0 requires a lot of experience & hands on experience on 7600 &
IOS XR. For Cisco Employees they can get chance to work on IOS XR but for
other it is little bit tough to get chance to work on XR.

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> Paul Negron
> CCIE# 14856 CCSI# 22752
> Senior Technical Instructor
> www.micronicstraining.com
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> > 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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Gaurav Thukral
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