This Authorized Cisco 5-day course gives you the knowledge and skills required to design, implement, and troubleshoot Quality of Service (QoS) on a network. The course addresses 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.

• 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

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

ICND or equivalent experience.

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

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.

Lab 1: QoS Lab Setup and Initialization
Initial router and switch configuration; familiarization with the lab environment.

Lab 2: Baseline QoS Measurement
Network performance testing with and without application traffic loads.

Lab 3: Classification and Marking Using MQC
Configure MQC classification using ACLs. Configure and monitor Class-Based Marking.

Lab 4: Classification Using NBAR
Configure NBAR protocol discovery. Configure MQC Classification via NBAR.

Lab 5: LAN-Based Packet Classification and Marking
Configure Catalyst trust boundaries and COS-to-DSCP mapping. Configure MQC classification and marking on Catalyst switch.

Lab 6: Configuring QoS Pre-Classify
Configure QoS pre-classify on a router using a GRE tunnel. Monitor the operation of QoS pre-classification.

Lab 7: Configuring Basic Queuing
Configure FIFO queuing on WAN routers. Configure WFQ queuing on WAN routers. Measure and analyze network performance.

Lab 8: Configuring LLQ
Configure LLQ on a WAN router to provide bandwidth and latency guarantees. Measure and analyze the results.

Lab 9: Queuing on Catalyst Switches
Configure COS-to-queue mapping on the Catalyst 2950 switch. Configure and monitor WRR queuing on the Catalyst 2950.

Lab 10: Configuring DSCP-Based WRED
Configure and monitor DSCP-Based CB-WRED. Add Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN).

Lab 11: Configuring Class-Based Policing
Configure CB-Policing and analyze the results.

Lab 12: Configuring Class-Based Shaping
Configure CB-Shaping and analyze the results.

Lab 13: Configuring Class-Based Header Compression
Configure and monitor Class-Based RTP header compression on a PPP WAN link.

Lab 14: Configuring LFI
Configure and monitor link fragmentation and interleaving on a PPP WAN link.

Lab 15: 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.

Lab 16: 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.

Lab 17: Exclusive -< Catalyst Inline Power (Optional)
Lab 18: Clean Up