Advanced Services - Cisco Service Control Application Solution Deployment Course (SCA-D)

This course is intended for engineering or support level personnel designing, deploying, and supporting SCA solutions.

Following are the prerequisites for this course.

• Familiarity with the SCA solution to include knowledge of overall architecture and experience with the SCA-BB Console GUI for SCE provisioning. These skills are taught in the 'AS' Cisco Service Control Application for Broadband Training (SCA-BB)' course.

• Knowledge of IP routing and switching fundamentals as well as Solaris are recommended for the best learning outcome.

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the purpose, network insertion, architecture and interoperability of the SCA solution components. • Install the SCA solution componentsf hardware and software, to include SCE, SCA-BB Console, CM, and SM. • Generate detailed reports on bandwidth usage by subscriber and service type. • Use the Service Control Editor to provision combinations of bandwidth controls: quota, time-based, and tiered services to support both subscriber-less and subscriber-aware traffic control scenarios. • Configure SCA SM and QM to affect subscriber-aware reporting and traffic control scenarios. • Implement Radius and DHCP integration for dynamic subscriber awareness through Login Event Generation (LEG) interfaces. • Describe SCA solution design methodology, specific to sizing, high availability considerations (cascade), and Multi-Gigabit (MGSCP) topologies.

This course prepares students to install and configure the Cisco Service Control Application Solutions components, including the Cisco Service Control Engine (SCE), SCA-BB Console, and Cisco Collection Manager (CM), Traffic Reporter, and Cisco Subscriber Manager (SM). Students use Cisco’s Planning, Design, Implementation, Operation and Optimization (PDIOO) process to deploy several SCA solution topologies, including cascade (high availability) and Multi-Gigabit (MGSCP). Based on realistic use-case scenarios, students also use the SCA-BB Console to analyze network traffic with reports and design traffic control policies for link bandwidth optimization, to control traffic to the subscriber or application level, as well as to enable tiered service offerings.

Course Outline Course Introduction • Course Objectives / Agenda

SCA-BB Solution and Architecture Review • Overall solution architecture • Component functions / interoperability

Solution Deployment Process • PPDIOO Process • Documentation, Templates and Software Locations

SCA-BB Component Installations • CM installation ¨C Bundled Sybase DB (Solaris OS) • SCE OS upgrade / installation • SCA-BB Console (laptop) • SM installation (Solaus OS) • Verifying SCA solution component interoperability

Service Control Scenarios • SCE packages, services, rules, BWC topics • Subscriber-less SCE implementation • Anonymous subscriber provisioning / operation

Subscriber Manager / External Quota Manager • SM functions, interfaces • Subscriber-aware / tiered services provisioning / operation • Introduction to external quota management and QM

Integration with RADIUS and DHCP • Details on LEG adaptors / integration scenarios • Configure integrations

Solution Design • Topology design methodology, HA design considerations (CM/DB,SM) • Case study review • Cascade Lab

MGSCP Topology • Solution implementations / configurations • MGSCP Lab