Designing Large–Scale LANs: Help for Network Designers - Softcover

Dooley, Department Of Industrial Engineering And Department Of Management Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596001509 ISBN 13: 9780596001506

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2001

Synopsis

This unique book offers a vendor-neutral approach for designing large local area networks according to business or organizational needs, rather than from a product perspective. Author and independent network design consultant Kevin Dooley outlines "top-down network design" for building a technological infrastructure to fit your organization's requirements, a process far more effective and cost-efficient than fitting the organization to the parameters of a shrink-wrapped proprietary solution. Dooley argues that the design of a network is largely independent of the products used. Whether you use a Cisco or Juniper router, the same security issues and protocols apply. The questions he addresses in this book are need-specific: Do I use a router or a switch? Should I route between switched areas or switch between routed areas? Designing Large-Scale LANs covers everything from security, bandwidth and scalability to network reliability, which includes backup, redundancy, and points of failure. Specific technologies are analyzed in detail: network topologies, routing and switching strategies, wireless, virtual LANs, firewalls and gateways, security, Internet protocols, bandwidth, and multicast services. The book also discusses proprietary technologies that are ubiquitous, such as Cisco's IOS and Novell's IPX. This complete guide to top-down network design will help you choose the right network solutions. If you're designing large scale networks and need expert advice and guidance, look no further than Designing Large-Scale LANs.

About this title

About the Author

Kevin Dooley is an independent networking consultant who has been designing and implementing networks for more than ten years. In that time he has built large scale Local and Wide Area Networks for several of Canada's largest companies. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Toronto and is the author of Designing Large-Scale LANs.

From the Back Cover

This unique book offers a vendor-neutral approach for designing large local-area networks according to business or organisational needs, rather than from a product perspective. Author and independent network design consultant Kevin Dooley outlines "top-down network design" for building a technological infrastructure to fit your organisation's requirements, a process far more effective and cost-efficient than fitting the organisation to the parameters of a shrink-wrapped proprietary solution.

Dooley argues that the design of a network is largely independent of the products used. Whether you use a Cisco or Juniper router, the same security issues and protocols apply. The questions he addresses in this book are need-specific: do I use a router or a switch? Should I route between switched areas or switch between routed areas?

Designing Large-Scale LANs covers everything from security, bandwidth and scalability to network reliability, which includes backup, redundancy and points of failure. Specific technologies are analysed in detail: network topologies, routing and switching strategies, wireless, virtual LANs, firewalls and gateways, security, Internet protocols, bandwidth and multicast services. The book also discusses proprietary technologies that are ubiquitous, such as Cisco's IOS and Novell's IPX.

This complete guide to top-down network design will help you choose the right network solutions. If you're designing large scale networks and need expert advice and guidance, look no further than Designing Large-Scale LANs.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0596001509
• ISBN 13: 9780596001506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400