The Service Provider category covers foundational and advanced topics related to service provider networking environments. These include MPLS, BGP, IS-IS, Segment Routing, QoS, L3VPNs, L2VPNs, and PE-CE connectivity. All content is tailored for engineers working in or preparing for roles within ISPs, carriers, and telecom infrastructure.
You’ll find detailed configurations, lab scenarios, and technology deep-dives focused on Cisco IOS-XR and IOS-XE platforms, Juniper MX/vMX systems, and multi-domain architectures. This category is perfect for anyone looking to build robust, scalable, and interoperable provider networks.
service provider networking, MPLS configuration, L3VPN Cisco, BGP design, Segment Routing lab, PE-CE connectivity, IOS-XR tutorials, IS-IS deployment, telecom core networks
Fibre Access That Actually Makes Sense Right, passive optical networks. PON stuff. Now I know what you’re thinking – this sounds dead boring compared to all the DWDM kit we’ve been messing about with. But… Read More »Cisco CCNP SPCOR Blog 11: Passive Optical Networks or PON
Understanding Cisco Segment Routing: What It Is and Why You Need to Know It Right, let’s talk about segment routing. Now, I know what you’re thinking – “Great, another technology to learn.” But here’s the… Read More »Cisco CCNP SPCOR Blog 4 Segment Routing Overview
Complete Blog Series Right, let’s get straight to it. You’re here because you want to pass the Cisco CCNP SPCOR exam, and frankly, it’s not an easy one. I’ve been working with service provider networks… Read More »Cisco CCNP SPCOR – Complete Blog Series Index
Process for Adding IPv6 Addresses With Ansible Hello And welcome to this next video in the CCIE service provider lab series. Okay So what we’re going to tackle in this one is we’re going to… Read More »Adding IPv6 Addresses with Ansible to the CCIE Service Provider Lab
CCIE Service Provider Practice Lab – Topology, Resources, and What You Can Actually Do With It This post goes alongside the video walkthrough for the CCIE Service Provider practice lab. Cisco have done something quite… Read More »Cisco CCIE Service provider Pratice Lab
In this blog post, we’ll walk through a practical lab scenario focused on ISIS IPv6 configuration and addressing in a multi-area network environment. This guide is based on Workbook 3 and builds upon previous IS-IS… Read More »ISIS IPv6 Configuration Workbook 3
Welcome back to our Service Provider Workbook series! This is Workbook 2, and today we’re diving into IS-IS troubleshooting , building on the foundation laid in Workbook 1 where we configured IS-IS and verified our… Read More »Workbook 2 ISIS IPv4 Troubleshooting with Route Policies, Authentication
let’s get cracking with our first workbook for ISIS ISIS TASK 1 As we can see here we have our first task you’ve been provided with the IPv4 addressing So all the configurations for that… Read More »ISIS IPv4 Workbook 1
Hello everyone and welcome to the introduction to the new set of videos and posts that I will be posting on, YouTube and my website richardkilleen.co.uk and as well as, other social media platforms. I… Read More »Introduction to the CCNP and CCIE Workbooks
Cisco have been fantatsic in providing a full learning martix in csv format for anyone who is intrested in doing the Cisco CCIE Service Provider exam. The guide is tailored to version 5.0 of the… Read More »CCIE Service Provider Learning Matrix