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Cisco Network Design Handbook: The Ultimate Shop Manual

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Buy this book if this sentence seems right to you, "Process switching can be described as a router processor repackaging a frame after the frame has been processed. Process switching occurs when encapsulated frames are being sent across a WAN link. Encapsulation takes place in the router's processor, so when encapsulation is being used and switching is needd, process switching occurs." Repackaging technical documentation should not be attempted by soneone who doesn't really understand what is going on. The book is full of pithy, slightly wrong statements.

First off if your buying this book chances are you understand
a tad bit more about networking than the masses. This book is
in fact what Amazon claims it to be "A great refference" when
your in search of a quick answer your not going to spend a year
and a half thumbing through these pages, instead you'll have
answered the questioned and moved on. If there is one comment
that I wish would others intrested in this item to know it
would have to how organized and easy to read this book is.

Although a new CCDA exam (640-861) is now appearing, and the Cisco prodcut information is somewhat dated for the older CCDA exam (640-441), the foundations are great for both CCDA and eventual CCDP. I read this a year before taking up the CCNA and CCDA exams, and ended up referencing _back_ to it every time reading another book raised some questions.

All-in-all, it's a great "base reference" for anything studying for Cisco exams.

This book not only covers technical topics as they relate to Cisco Network Design, but also covers some of the more important softer issues that network designers have to deal with - customers, proposals, personnel and management. All in all , a good book to buy. Great for CCDA prep, too.

After reading the Cisco Network Design Handbook, I was amazed at the amount of knowledge that I gained. I was able to easily plan, implement, and maintain global customer networks in a direct and organized fashion. Also I was able to solve network design issues that my engineering team and I were faced with, with quick and precise methods that I learned from this great authored book ! This book is must, for those in today's high paced networking enviroment.

Not only have I read every word of this book at least twice but I was also on the production of this book serving as a technical reviewer for Michael. This book is one of the best cisco design books I have read. I highly recommend it for anyone wishing to work toward the CCDA or any network administrator or contractor that will be implmenting a new or revising an existing network. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK MICHAEL!