The Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR) course teaches you how to configure, verify, troubleshoot, and optimize next-generation, Service Provider IP network infrastructures. It provides a deep dive into Service Provider technologies including core architecture, services, networking, automation, quality of services, security, and network assurance.

This course also helps you prepare to take the 350-501 Implementing and Operating Cisco^®Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR) exam, which is part of the new CCNP^® Service Provider certification and the Cisco Certified Specialist–Service Provider Core certification. This course also earns you 64 Continuing Education (CE) credits towards recertification.

• Describing Service Provider Network Architectures
• Describing Cisco IOS Software Architectures
• Implementing OSPF
• Implementing IS-IS
• Implementing BGP
• Implementing Route Maps and Routing Protocol for LLN [Low-Power and Lossy Networks] (RPL)
• Transitioning to IPv6
• Implementing High Availability in Networking
• Implementing MPLS
• Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering
• Describing Segment Routing
• Describing VPN Services
• Configuring L2VPN Services
• Configuring L3VPN Services
• Implementing Multicast
• Describing QoS Architecture
• Implementing QoS
• Implementing Control Plane Security
• Implementing Management Plane Security
• Implementing Data Plane Security
• Introducing Network Programmability
• Implementing Automation and Assurance
• Introducing Cisco NSO
• Implementing Virtualization in Service Provider Environments

• Network administrators
• Network engineers
• Network managers
• System engineers
• Project managers
• Network designers

Before taking this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:

• Intermediate knowledge of Cisco IOS or IOS XE
• Familiarity with Cisco IOS or IOS XE and Cisco IOS XR Software configuration
• Knowledge of IPv4 and IPv6 TCP/IP networking
• Intermediate knowledge of IP routing protocols
• Understanding of MPLS technologies
• Familiarity with VPN technologies