Test drive Carrier's Carrier MPLS VPN service

Carrier's Carrier MPLS VPN service is one of the more confusing aspects of MPLS VPN technology; there are simply so many different bits and pieces that have to fit together just right to make it work (although we did a pretty good job describing it in the Cisco Press book MPLS and VPN architectures, Volume II). If you would like to set it up in a test environment, here's what you can do: if you have partner-level Cisco Connection Online access, you can do it free of charge:

• Start Partner e-learning connection.
• After landing on the main PEC page, click here (or paste http://cisco.partnerelearning.com/peclms/lang-en/management/LMS_TrainLedInfo.asp?UserMode=0&LEDefId=17619 in the browser address bar)

If you're not working for a Cisco partner, you can buy the whole set of advanced MPLS remote labs from NIL Data Communications.