Alcatel-Lucent Network Routing Specialist II (NRS II) Self-Study Guide: Preparing for the NRS II Certification Exams

This book is your official self-study guide for the Alcatel-Lucent Network Routing Specialist II (NRS II) Certification. The certification is designed to provide a solid understanding of IP/MPLS networks and their Layer 2 and Layer 3 service applications in today's advanced networks. The book is loaded with many practical configuration and troubleshooting exercises and is an invaluable reference source to the working network engineer. Upon completing the book and obtaining your certification, you will have a valuable foundation of skills, knowledge, and best practices needed for operating an IP/MPLS services network.

After reading this book, you will be able to:

• Design an address plan and configure interfaces for IPv4 and IPv6

• Configure and verify routing for IPv6

• Describe the operation of LDP and configure an LDP network

• Explain how OSPF and IS-IS are enhanced to support traffic engineering

• Configure and verify RSVP-TE LSPs for traffic engineering and high availability

• Describe the different services that can be implemented in an IP/MPLS network

• Configure and verify Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services

• Configure and verify IPv6 tunneling over an IP/MPLS network

"I strongly recommend this book to any individual or organization needing to build their IP Service Routing knowledge and hands-on implementation skills and know-how. This comprehensive self-study guide not only leads to a valuable certification at the NRS II level, it covers a wide range of critical IP subject areas in a thorough and practical manner to help you better support your mission, business, and customers."
—Gary Horn, Vice President, Technology Services and CTO Advocate Health Care

Includes CD-ROM with test engine and lab exercises