Why Global Knowledge?

We've enhanced our labs beyond what you'll find in a standard Authorized Cisco QoS course. Work with real VoIP and real data rather than simulated voice and data. Labs include voice calls between Cisco IP phones and HTTP web page downloads and FTP file transfers from a server to student workgroup PCs. Traffic generators are used to inject additional simulated traffic into the lab environment to cause network congestion.

Enhancements include:

Testing Voice Quality

• Make voice calls, listen to real voice quality, and observe the effects of delay and jitter rather than relying on pings to test voice quality.
• We offer you a real-world experience with IP telephones in place of a "what if" exercise offered in standard lab situations.

QoS on Data Applications

Use your workgroup PC to download web pages and FTP files from a server. Observe the benefits of QoS for data applications on congested networks and see web page refreshes while observing FTP file transfers in real time. In the standard QoS course, students look at counters on their routers to observe the effects of QoS on data applications.

Real Phones in Labs

• We've added real IP telephones to the QoS lab exercises. In the RTP header compression lab and the Link Fragmentation and Interleave labs, you can not only hear the results, but you can display drop and jitter counters on the phone itself.
• The standard QoS course does not offer telephones in the labs. Rather, students rely on counter statistics on the routers to judge what voice calls will sound like - a method that alters their perception of the effect on voice quality.
• Call Manager Express is employed in our labs to control the student IP telephones.

Auto QoS for the Enterprise

We've added an exclusive lab on Cisco's Auto QoS for the Enterprise, a feature used to automatically configure QoS for data, voice, and video applications. Using NBAR to dynamically discover network applications, Auto QoS for the Enterprise applies best practice QoS policies tailored to the type and quantity of traffic loads. This lab is not part of the standard QoS course.

What You'll Learn

• Building blocks of IP QOS
• Configure AutoQoS on WAN routers and on Catalyst access switches and monitor the results
• Configure FIFO and WFQ queuing on WAN routers and measure and analyze network performance
• Configure WRED on WAN routers to control which traffic is dropped during congestion
• Configure CBWFQ and LLQ on WAN routers to provide bandwidth and latency guarantees
• Configure COS-to-queue mapping and WRR queuing on the Catalyst 2950 switch

Who Needs to Attend

Network professionals interested in deploying state-of-the-art QoS techniques to support multimedia traffic would benefit from this course.

Pre-requisites

ICND or equivalent experience.

• ICND2 - Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices 2

1. Introduction to IP QoS

• Understanding the Need for QoS
• Understanding QoS
• Implementing QoS

2. The Building Blocks of IP QoS

• Identifying Models for Implementing QoS
• The Integrated Services Model
• The Differentiated Services Model
• Identifying QoS Mechanisms
• QoS in the Life of a Packet

3. Introduction to Modular QoS CLI and AutoQoS

• Modular QoS CLI
• Cisco AutoQoS VoIP
• Cisco AutoQoS Enterprise

4. Classification and Marking

• Understanding Classification and Marking
• Using MQC for Classification
• Using MQC for Class-Based Marking
• Using NBAR for Classification
• Configuring QoS Pre-Classify
• Configuring QoS Policy Propagation Through BGP
• Configuring LAN Classification and Marking

5. Congestion Management

• Introducing Queuing
• Understanding Queuing Implementations
• Configuring FIFO and WFQ
• Configuring CBWFQ and LLQ
• Configuring LAN Congestion Management

6. Congestion Avoidance

• Introducing Congestion Avoidance
• RED
• Configuring Class-Based Weighted RED
• Configuring Explicit Congestion Notification

7. Traffic Policing and Shaping

• Understanding Traffic Policing and Shaping
• Configuring Class-Based Policing
• Configuring Class-Based Shaping
• Configuring Class-Based Shaping on Frame Relay Interfaces
• Frame Relay Voice-Adaptive Traffic Shaping and Fragmentation

8. Link Efficiency Mechanisms

• Understanding Link Efficiency Mechanisms
• Configuring Class-Based Header Compression
• Configuring Link Fragmentation and Interleaving

9. QoS Best Practices

• Understanding Traffic Classification Best Practices
• Deploying End-to-End QoS
• Providing QoS for Security