Designing ISP Architectures - Softcover

Nguyen, John V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130454966 ISBN 13: 9780130454966

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

This book is a model for designing architectures for ISPs of any size. It details the design process from start to finish.

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From the Back Cover

• Apply an architectural model to plan and design a scalable architecture for any size ISP.
• Evaluate requirements to determine trade-offs, assess limitations, and make key decisions.
• Create a logical and physical design to decide which software and hardware components provide the best-fitting solution.

This book is a model for designing architectures for ISPs of any size. Expressly for IT architects and consultants who design ISP architectures, this book details the design process from start to finish. Throughout this book, whether it's obtaining and evaluating requirements or creating logical and physical designs, we provide helpful tips, insights, and expertise. We compare design approaches, offer suggestions for evaluating trade-offs, and alert you to common pitfalls. Included are chapters on capacity planning and selecting components. During the design process, we apply the model to a realistic sample customer.

About the Author

JOHN V. NGUYEN is a Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems working in Advanced Internet Practice (Sun Professional Services). He has over 10 years' experience in software engineering, systems management, networking, security, and architecture design for large-scale service providers, portals, and Internet datacenters. John is currently working on wireless technologies such as Location-Based Services, Mobile Messaging, Wireless Portal, 3G Wireless Networks, and Wireless Intelligent Networking. John holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, BS in Computer Science, and Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0130454966
• ISBN 13: 9780130454966
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400