Designing ISP Architectures (Sun Blueprints) [Paperback]

John V. Nguyen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 12, 2002 | Series: Sun Blueprints

Architectural decisions are crucial to the success of any ISP, because they will determine the cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and scalability of the infrastructure used to deliver services. Designing ISP Architectures is a start-to-finish best-practices guide to effective ISP architectural design and implementation. Leading ISP architect and consultant John V. Nguyen uses a running case study to cover every step of the process: formulating design requirements; establishing an architectural model; creating and documenting both logical and physical designs; selecting components; and implementing the architecture you've defined. Nguyen demonstrates how to create platform-independent architectures that can support rapid growth in subscribership, ongoing new product introductions, low-cost operation, and effective management. Along the way, he identifies key tradeoffs and limitations, offering practical guidance architects can use to optimize ISP infrastructure for any marketplace or application portfolio. For every IT architect, consultant, and network professional responsible for designing or implementing ISP architectures.

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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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (March 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130454966
• ISBN-13: 978-0130454966
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,797,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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