An essential guide to scaling and maintaining large networks.Large-Scale IP Network Solutions provides practical advice for network engineers as IP networks grow and become more complex. With in-depth discussions of the major IP protocols--including RIP, Enhanced IGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP--this book evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of each protocol, allowing you to decide which ones are right for your working environment. In addition to specific large and medium network protocol deployment issues, this guide contains special sections on more general topics such as network management, core and distribution networks, multicasting, and quality of service features.Router configuration examples, network case studies, and sample scenarios all help you put the book's information to use and become an effective Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE). In addition, this title offers unique elements to help you prepare for the exam, including: case studies that highlight real-world design, implementation, management, and troubleshooting issues; configuiration examples from actual network input and output; scenarios that help you put solutions to use; and review questions and exercises. * Understand critical scalability issues and the parameters to plan for future network growth * Examine detailed migration plans with sample scenarios and working Cisco configuration examples * Learn the pros and cons of each major routing protocol and how to choose the right one for your environment * Understand the operations and scalability features of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) * Implement effective quality of service and network management techniques * Benefit from extensive large-scale network design and configuration case studies
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Khalid Raza, CCIE #1192, has been involved with the design of large networks for Cisco Systems, Inc. for more than five years. He holds a master's degree in engineering management, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Khalid's contributions to the CCIE program include helping to write the lab portion of the exam and the new IP-ISP text for CCIE recertification. Khalid's specialization is in routing protocols, and he has given presentations at various conferences on designing scalable IP networks.Mark Turner is a development manager for large-scale switching and routing at Cisco Systems, Inc. He as been involved with the design of large-scale IP networks since the early 1990s, when he contributed to the maintenance and expansion of the Australian Academic and Research Network. Since then, he has worked in an engineering and networking management capacity on several large corporate intranets, most recently for the NASA Science Internet. Mark's contributions to major projects over the years have included the complete design of secure and open networks, as well as incremental upgrades to physical and logical infrastructures of exising large networks.
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Large-Scale IP Network Solutions,
By Rajan Abraham (Kuwait) - See all my reviews
This review is from: CCIE Professional Development: Large Scale IP Network Solutions (Hardcover)
This is a must for all of you pursuing CCIE. It can also be used as a reference book even after attaining your CCIE. I have a small library of Cisco books for my CCIE preparation - and this book I rate among the top 5 must haves.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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An outstanding book from one of the top network designers,
By Daniel Golding (Brookline, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: CCIE Professional Development: Large Scale IP Network Solutions (Hardcover)
Khalid is one of the best network designers I have ever met. His book is excellent technically, and is both clear and concise. This is not a book for the faint hearted - a good knowledge of routing protocols and network design is a must. For those who are experienced network engineers, trying to "go to the next level", this is a MUST HAVE.
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This review is from: CCIE Professional Development: Large Scale IP Network Solutions (Hardcover)
Editing seems to have been limited to running the text through a spell checker. Page 69 refers to "a Frame Rely network". Page 72 explains that an ISDN BRI provides "two barrier channels".Frequently diagrams include acronyms for which no explanation is offered, as if the figure was shoveled in from somewhere else. There is no glossary of acronyms and many are missing from the index. An entire chapter is spent on RIP1, with redundant statements about the lack of VLSM support and obsolete status. My experience was that issues of technical sublety were as often muddied as they were explained. There is good info in this book, too, but considering the Cisco name, I expected much better.
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