Building Scalable Cisco Networks: Prepare for CCNP and CCDP Certification with the Official Cisco BSCN Coursbook [Hardcover]

Catherine Paquet (Author), Diane Teare (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1578702283 | ISBN-13: 978-1578702282 | Publication Date: January 15, 2000 | Edition: 1st

For courses in professional level Cisco certification and intermediate level networking.This book focuses on using Cisco routers connected in LANs and WANs typically found at medium-to-large network sites. The student will study a broad range of technical details on topics related to routing, including routing principles, IP addressing issues such as variable-length subnet masks (VLSMs), route summarization, and protocol redistribution. The routing protocols Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) are investigated in detail. Configuration examples and sample verification output demonstrate troubleshooting techniques, and a case study is used throughout the book to review key concepts and to discuss critical issues surrounding network operation. Chapter-ending configuration exercises and review questions illustrate and help solidify the concepts presented in the book.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Designed to help a student prepare for the Routing exam (640-503) en route to Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification, Building Scalable Cisco Networks explains the three main routing protocols and provides exercises that will give readers practical experience on Cisco Systems equipment. This is an excellent, generally comprehensive guide to routed data networks that's as well suited to on-the-job reference as to test preparation. Authors Catherine Paquet and Diane Teare assume readers have somewhat less than CCNA-level knowledge of Cisco routing (probably a considerately conservative assumption), and explain Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in terms tailored to people who configure Cisco routers for a living.

Routing, like object-oriented programming, is one of the topics everyone must think about and conceptualize individually. Paquet and Teare use conceptual drawings, feature-comparison tables, and Internetwork Operating System (IOS) input-and-output listings--as well as lucid writing--to explain complex protocols as simply as possible. They also make use of a case study in which a company must integrate several acquired companies, each with different internetworking and routing schemes, into an efficient whole. More obviously test-preppish material includes configuration exercises (assigned and then separately explained) and review questions at each chapter's conclusion. --David Wall

Topics covered:

• Scalable routing protocols, as implemented on Cisco Systems routers
• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) in single and multiple areas
• Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
• Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
• Techniques for optimizing routing-table updates

From the Back Cover

Cisco authorized self-study book for CCNP Routing foundation learning

* Understand the principles of classful and classless routing and the difference between link-state and distance vector protocol behavior
* Select and configure the appropriate services for simplifying IP address management at branch offices by proper address allocation and summarization
* Implement the appropriate technologies for a scalable, routed network that uses link-state protocols and redistribution
* Configure edge routers to properly interconnect to a BGP network through either a single or multihomed interconnection
* Control and optimize routing update information by implementing filters, metrics, and policy-based routing and changing administrative distance
* Examine case studies that show you how to build a scalable internetwork including multiple routing protocols

Building Scalable Cisco Networks is a Cisco authorized self-paced learning tool. It teaches you how to design, configure, maintain, and scale routed networks that are growing in size and complexity. This book focuses on using Cisco routers connected in LANs and WANs typically found at medium to large network sites. Whether you are preparing for CCNP or CCDP certification or simply want to gain a better understanding of the products, services, and policies that help you control traffic over LANs and WANs and connect your network to Internet service providers, you will benefit from the comprehensive foundation information presented in this book.

In Building Scalable Cisco Networks you will study a broad range of technical details on topics related to routing, including routing principles, IP addressing issues such as variable-length subnet masks (VLSMs), route summarization, and protocol redistribution. The routing protocols Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) are investigated in detail. Configuration examples and sample verification output demonstrate troubleshooting techniques, and a case study is used throughout the book to review key concepts and to discuss critical issues surrounding network operation. Chapter-ending configuration exercises and review questions illustrate and help solidify the concepts presented in the book. This in-depth information on Cisco Routing exam topics will start you down the path for attaining your CCNP or CCDP certification.

This book covers all the topics on the CCNP BSCI exam #640-901, except for IS-IS. A free download of an IS-IS supplement is available on the Cisco Press website that will make coverage of the BSCI exam topics complete. To download the IS-IS supplement, go to ciscopress/ccnp.

Building Scalable Cisco Networks is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco Systems that can include simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit cisco/go/authorizedtraining.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 700 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Systems; 1st edition (January 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578702283
• ISBN-13: 978-1578702282
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.6 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,870,899 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! read it and pass the routing 2.0 exam, December 11, 2000

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F. Murray (long beach, ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Building Scalable Cisco Networks: Prepare for CCNP and CCDP Certification with the Official Cisco BSCN Coursbook (Hardcover)

The Routing 2.0 exam is 40% OSPF, 30% BGP, 20 % EIGRP and 10% general internetworking questions. This book has it all. It is easy to understand with excellent diagrams and config examples. It's the only book I needed to pass the exam. It's even a good reference book to have on the job for all those commands you can't remember 6 months after taking the test! Yes, Jeff Doyles book is fantastic, but if your main objective is to obtain your CCNP, then get this book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A better Cisco Press.., November 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Building Scalable Cisco Networks: Prepare for CCNP and CCDP Certification with the Official Cisco BSCN Coursbook (Hardcover)

I'm not usually happy with Cisco Press books. This is one of their better ones. I used this and the Mcgraw hill/Osbourne. This was well written, covered everything on the exam. Read the two and scored 900. Recommend this one highly.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!!!, February 1, 2001

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joe coffie (washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Scalable Cisco Networks: Prepare for CCNP and CCDP Certification with the Official Cisco BSCN Coursbook (Hardcover)

This book is all that you need for the new Routing 2.0 exam. Get this book with a couple of routers and you're all set. Used this book with a pod of 6 routers and blasted the exam on the first attempt. The book has excellent labs at the end of every chapter so you get real hand on experience configuring EIGRP,OSPF,BGP, and a real profound understanding of all these routing protocols. Get this book if you really want to know the stuff and pass the exam also. Real great desktop resource for references. Let this book be your hunny for the next month and you can not fail the exam. Good book Catherine!! Really deserves 5 stars!!