QOS - Implementing Cisco Quality of Service
This course gives you the knowledge and skills required to design, implement, and troubleshoot Quality of Service (QoS) on a network. You will address the essential QoS technologies and applications for both Service Provider and Enterprise networks. Successful implementation of the techniques taught in this course will have a dramatic impact on critical network application performance.
This alternative to traditional instructor-led training provides you with live virtual instructor-led training with the option of self-paced e-Learning. Instead of meeting in one physical locale, you will participate in live lectures over the Internet.
These e-Learning classes are taught in two three-hour lectures each week. Lectures are team taught, providing pace, diversity, and spontaneity not possible with a lone instructor. Recorded versions of lectures are available 24x7 for review if you miss any of the scheduled live lectures or if you simply prefer self-paced e-Learning to work through on your own time.
As part of Cisco's recent announcement for the CCNP Voice certification program, QOS is no longer a requirement. However, it is still part of the CCIP certification as well as several Specializations.
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.
Prerequisites
ICND or equivalent experience.
Follow-On Courses
Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks
This course is part of the following programs or tracks:
- CCIP - Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional
- Cisco IP Telephony Design Specialist
- CCIE - Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert Routing and Switching
- CCIE Voice
- Cisco Advanced Routing and Switching Solutions Specialist
- Cisco Advanced Routing and Switching Field Specialist
Course Outline
- Introduction to IP QoS
- Understanding the Need for QoS
- Understanding QoS
- Implementing QoS
- 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
- Introduction to Modular QoS CLI and AutoQoS
- Modular QoS CLI
- Cisco AutoQoS VoIP
- Cisco AutoQoS Enterprise
- 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
- Congestion Management
- Introducing Queuing
- Understanding Queuing Implementations
- Configuring FIFO and WFQ
- Configuring CBWFQ and LLQ
- Configuring LAN Congestion Management
- Congestion Avoidance
- Introducing Congestion Avoidance
- RED
- Configuring Class-Based Weighted RED
- Configuring Explicit Congestion Notification
- 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
- Link Efficiency Mechanisms
- Understanding Link Efficiency Mechanisms
- Configuring Class-Based Header Compression
- Configuring Link Fragmentation and Interleaving
- QoS Best Practices
- Understanding Traffic Classification Best Practices
- Deploying End-to-End QoS
- Providing QoS for Security
Labs
100% Enhanced Hands-On Labs
Our QoS labs are based on real VoIP and data rather than on simulated traffic. Cisco IP phones are used for voice calls in the classroom.
- QoS Lab Setup and Initialization
Initial router and switch configuration; familiarization with the lab environment.
- Baseline QoS Measurement
Network performance testing with and without application traffic loads.
- Classification and Marking Using MQC
Configure MQC classification using ACLs. Configure and monitor Class-Based Marking.
- Classification Using NBAR
Configure NBAR protocol discovery. Configure MQC Classification via NBAR.
- LAN-Based Packet Classification and Marking
Configure Catalyst trust boundaries and COS-to-DSCP mapping. Configure MQC classification and marking on Catalyst switch.
- Configuring QoS Pre-Classify
Configure QoS pre-classify on a router using a GRE tunnel. Monitor the operation of QoS pre-classification.
- Configuring Basic Queuing
Configure FIFO queuing on WAN routers. Configure WFQ queuing on WAN routers. Measure and analyze network performance.
- Configuring LLQ
Configure LLQ on a WAN router to provide bandwidth and latency guarantees. Measure and analyze the results.
- Queuing on Catalyst Switches
Configure COS-to-queue mapping on the Catalyst 2950 switch. Configure and monitor WRR queuing on the Catalyst 2950.
- Configuring DSCP-Based WRED
Configure and monitor DSCP-Based CB-WRED. Add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN).
- Configuring Class-Based Policing
Configure CB-Policing and analyze the results.
- Configuring Class-Based Shaping
Configure CB-Shaping and analyze the results.
- Configuring Class-Based Header Compression
Configure and monitor Class-Based RTP header compression on a PPP WAN link.
- Configuring LFI
Configure and monitor link fragmentation and interleaving on a PPP WAN link.
- Configuring QoS with AutoQoS for VoIP
Configure AutoQoS on WAN routers and monitor the results. Configure AutoQoS on Catalyst access switches and monitor the results.
- Exclusive - Auto QoS for the Enterprise (Optional)
Use the Auto QoS for the Enterprise feature on Cisco routers to automatically configure QoS for data, voice, and video applications.
- Exclusive - Catalyst Inline Power (Optional)
- Clean Up
