Cisco: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition - Softcover

Velte, Toby; Velte, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072263830 ISBN 13: 9780072263831

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2006

Synopsis

Get started using Cisco technologies quickly and easily

Here is a fully updated edition of the bestselling introductory guide to Cisco products and technologies. Cisco: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition provides you with a practical hands-on resource for successfully designing and managing a Cisco network. Learn to work with Cisco routers and switches, wireless technologies, and storage tools. You'll also get full details on network security, including firewalls, as well as communications solutions such as VoIP. This is a must-have resource for anyone interested in internetworking and Cisco technologies.

• Work with Cisco's Internet technologies
• Configure Cisco routers and networks
• Understand Cisco internetworking technologies including LAN switches, multilayered switching, and VLANs
• Secure your network using CiscoSecure ACS, Cisco PIX firewall, IOS Firewall, and other methods
• Enable wireless internetworking using the Cisco Aironet and Airespace products
• Deploy VoIP via Cisco Unified Communications
• Implement Cisco storage area network (SAN) and content delivery network (CDN) solutions
• Use both open standard routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, BGP) and Cisco-proprietary protocols (IGRP and EIGRP)
• Design, manage, and troubleshoot a robust Cisco network

 

About this title

Product Description

Helps to learn the uses of Cisco technology. This book covers IOS, voice and wireless security, video-on-demand, routers, switches, and wireless products, and more.

Review

You generally can't pick up knowledge of Cisco products casually, the way you can learn about Microsoft Windows, Unix and other products that are more generally accessible. For this reason, Cisco: A Beginner's Guide performs a valuable service. It introduces Internet working novices to the language and fact base that underlie routers, switches, network protocols and the rest of the Internet's infrastructure. True enough, no book can teach you everything you need to know about a subject as complex as Internetworking, it does a great job of giving you the background you need to perform well in a class or do hands-on experiments intelligently.

The book goes heavy on prose, enabling the reader to slowly absorb the truth about complex systems as the author lays a foundation of knowledge and proceeds to build upon it. Conceptual diagrams help drive home relationships among network devices, though a series of "blueprints" in the centre of this book suffer from being split down the middle by the book's binding--fold-outs would be far better. This is a superb book, one of the best around on Internetworking with Cisco. It would make an excellent first purchase for someone with ambitions to become a Cisco expert, as well as a fine "fundamentals" reference for more accomplished network engineers.--David Wall, amazon.com

Topics covered: Internetworking from a theoretical standpoint, backed up by information on how Cisco products handle implementation (meaning, in part, that you get information on which Cisco lines and models are good for which jobs). Technically, readers get the goods on Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS), routers, switches, routing protocols and security. There's great information on the pantheon of Cisco certifications, too.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0072263830
• ISBN 13: 9780072263831
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 704