BLC 6000 Operation and Provisioning
Course 755111 - BLC 6000 Operation and Provisioning
Format: Instructor led with hands-on labs
Duration: 4-days Times: 08:15 – 16:30
Labs: Hands-on (bring laptop with any required serial-port cable)
Prerequisites: None required. But Occam offers several on-line and instructor-led courses on TCP/IP and DSL/IPTV technologies that greatly improve understanding of the Occam BLC operations in this class.
Course Agenda
Day 1
Section 1 – Introduction Introduce the course objectives. Review BLC and Data Network vocabulary and concepts briefly as applies to broadband access.
Section 2 – BLC 6000 Products Introduce BLC 6000 series blade features and capabilities. Identify the principal BLC blade deployments for both Central Office (COT) and remote (RT) locations. Identify BLC chassis options.
Section 3 – GUI, Craft interface, Telnet and SSH, CLI Use the direct craft interface to perform initial configuration. Introduce web-based GUI.
Section 4 – BLC Subscriber Blade Quick Start As an overview of the complete process to configure a BLC for EPS ring and subscriber port operations, detail the essential configuration steps to provision a new DSL/POTS “combo” subscriber blade in an existing 6012 chassis; and turn up a Voice port, a DSL service, and a Video service.
Section 5 – EPS (Ethernet Protection Switching) and VLANs Detail how EPS offers transport circuit protection using inexpensive high-speed Ethernet trunks. Describe various EPS modes of operation and configure EPS protected rings on the lab network. Describe the difference between BLC Access Rings, and BLC Aggregation Rings. Review VLAN principles providing isolated logical LANs for Customer Services. Lab – Craft interface, Command Line Interface (CLI), GUI Lab – Initialize new BLC blade, Load Network, IP Addresses Lab – Configure EPS
Day 2
Section 6 – OccamView – Alarms, Scheduler & Downloads Use the blade GUI and OccamView core functions to: manage BLC Domain wide alarms, download and backup blade configuration and ONT configurations.
Section 7 – DSL Subscriber Ports Detail steps to configure DSL subscriber access on a BLC network. Define Services and use Access-Profiles. Configure multiple service DSL subscriber lines. Use the GUI to view DSL operational information.
Section 8 – IP Subscriber Management Describe the 4 main components of securing a BLC access network – DHCP Relay (aka Option 82, ARP Proxy, Blacklisting, and ACLs.
Section 9 – Active Fiber (AON) Subscriber Ports Detail steps to configure P2P fiber subscriber access on a BLC network. Define multiple Services and use Access-Profiles. Use the GUI to view Fiber subscriber line operational information. Lab – View/Clear OccamView alarms, perform backup and download of blade Lab - Configure DSL subscriber ports
Day 3
Section 10 – Passive Optical (GPON) Subscriber Ports Detail steps to configure GPON passive fiber subscriber access on a BLC network. Define Services and use Access-profiles and VLANs to provide multi-services to subscribers. Use the GUI to view Fiber subscriber line operational information.
Section 11– Voice Ports and VoIP (MGCP) Compare TDM and VoIP/MGCP technologies and operations. Configure VoIP/MGCP to transport voice across the EPS ring. Lab – Configure Active FTTx subscriber ports, using Option 82 Lab – Configure PON and provision and turn-up ONTs Lab – Configure VoIP/MCGP across Ethernet Trunks
Day 4
Section 12– Voice Ports and VoIP (SIP) Configure VoIP/SIP to transport voice across the EPS ring.
Section 13– Video Distribution and IGMP Describe characteristics of video distribution across a BLC network and DSL subscriber ports. Configure IGMP video distribution across the lab network. Demonstrate how IGMP optimally controls multiple high-speed Multicast video streams.
Section 14– Network Clock Synchronization and Circuits Configure NTP to maintain accurate system date and time. Configure NSP to maintain synchronous T1 timing across asynchronous Ethernet trunks. Configure (Circuit Emulation Services) across the EPS ring.
Section 15– Subscriber Line Test For POTs run and interpret MLT. For DSL run and interpret SELT and DELT. For Active Fiber, “shoot” and interpret the line. For GPON fiber “shoot” and interpret the line and detail ranging results. Lab – Configure VoIP/SIP across Ethernet Trunks Lab – Configure NTP, NSP and CES Lab – Perform and interpret MLT, SELT, DELT and Fiber measurement Lab – Use OccamView to provision and activate subscriber services