Course Outline:

The BGP Course will cover the topics below from theory, design, and hands-on lab perspectives. This is by far the most comprehensive and Expert-level BGP course in the world. 

•       BGP Basics – Why BGP, Autonomous Systems

•       BGP Best Path Selection

•       BGP Monitoring Protocol - BMP

•       EBGP – Basics of EBGP

•       EBGP Traffic Engineering – Inbound and Outbound

•       GAO – Rexford Model – Inter-domain Policies for Business Economics 

•       EBGP Multipath, IBGP Multipath and EIBGP Multipath

•       Inter-domain routing – Settlement Free Peering, Partial Peering, Remote Peering and IP Transit

•       BGP Route Servers and the Looking Glasses 

•       ISP Tiers – Tier 1 , 2 , 3 Type Providers

•       IBGP – Basics of IBGP

•       BGP Route Reflectors

•       Route Reflector Design Options

•       Centralized vs. Distributed, Inline and Offline Route Reflector Design

•       BGP Add-Path , BGP Shadow Route Reflectors/Distributing Diverse Paths  and Shadow Sessions 

•       Unique RD per VRF per PE Approach for path distribution

•       Comparison between BGP Add-path, Shadow RR, Shadow Sessions and Unique RD per VRF per PE

•       BGP RT – Route Target Constraint

•       BGP Optimal Route Reflection – ISP Case Study 

•       BGP Confederations and Confederation Design

•       Full mesh IBGP vs. Route Reflector vs. Confederation

•       Full mesh IBGP to BGP RR Migration

 

•       BGP – IGP Interactions – Blackhole avoidance

•       BGP – MPLS Interactions 

•       BGP LU – Labeled Unicast – RFC 3107 , RFC 8277

•       BGP LS – BGP Link State 

•       BGP EPE – Egress Peer Engineering – Traditional EPE and Modern Egress Peer Engineering with EPE/SDN Controller

•       BGP RTBH , Source and Destination based Remotely Triggered Blackholing and Scrubbing for DDOS mitigation with BGP

•       BGP Flowspec – RFC 5575

•       BGP Session Culling and Alternative Approaches , OXC 

•       BGP Graceful Restart, BGP Graceful Shutdown and BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication 

•       AIGP – Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute for BGP 

•       BGP MED vs. AIGP 

•       EBGP Default Route Propagation Behavior without Policies– RFC 8212 

•       BGP Information Security – 6 Different Types BGP Route Leaks

•       512K Incident Types 6 BGP Route Leak Contribution to it! 

•       BGP Information Security - Sub-Prefix Hijacking, Exact Prefix Hijacking , IP Squatting , Path-Shortening, Prefix Filters, IRR , RPSL , RPKI – Resource Public Key Infrastructure, PeeringDB,  BGPSEC , Origin and Path Validation, AS-Cones , ASPA

•       BGP in the Datacenter

•       BGP in the Wide Area Networks

•       Flat, Hierarchical and Generalized FIB Architecture and impact on BGP Prefix Independent Convergence

•       BGP PIC – Prefix Independent Convergence , BGP PIC Core and BGP PIC Edge

•       Case Studies

•       BGP vs. IGP Comparison

•       BGP in the CCIE , CCDE exam

•       Summary

•       BGP Quiz – BGP Questions and the Answers

•       - Bonus - BGP vs. other Hyper Scale Datacenter Routing Protocol Comparisons : RIFT , Open Fabric and BGP SPF  

What is the target audience?

• Network Engineers, Designers, Solution Architects
• This workshop will be helpful for many exam certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, CCDP, and CCDE.