Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) (Authorized Self-Study Guide) (2nd Edition) [Hardcover]

Keith T. Hutton (Author), Mark D. Schofield (Author), Diane Teare (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1587055740 | ISBN-13: 978-1587055744 | Publication Date: January 3, 2009 | Edition: 2

Authorized Self-Study Guide

Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH)

Second Edition

 

Foundation learning for ARCH exam 642-873

 

Keith Hutton

Mark Schofield

Diane Teare

 

Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH), Second Edition, is a Cisco®-authorized, self-paced learning tool for CCDP® foundation learning. This book provides you with knowledge of the latest developments in network design and technologies, including network infrastructure, intelligent network services, and converged network solutions. By reading this book, you will gain a thorough understanding of issues and considerations for fundamental infrastructure services, including security, network management, QoS, high availability, bandwidth use optimization through IP multicasting, and design architectures for network solutions such as voice over WLAN and e-commerce.

 

Whether you are preparing for CCDP certification or simply want to gain a better understanding of modular campus and edge network design and strategic solutions for enterprise networks such as storage area networking, virtual private networking, advanced addressing and routing, and data centers, you will benefit from the foundation information presented in this book.

 

Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH), Second Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes 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 www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

 

Keith Hutton is a lead architect for Bell Canada in the enterprise customer space. Keith still retains his certified Cisco instructor accreditation, as well as the CCDP, CCNP®, and CCIP® certifications.

 

Mark Schofield has been a network architect at Bell Canada for the past six years. During the past five years, he has been involved in the design, implementation, and planning of large national networks for Bell Canada's federal government customers.

 

Diane Teare is a professional in the networking, training, project management, and e-learning fields. She has more than 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting network hardware and software, and has been involved in teaching, course design, and project management.

 

• Learn about the Cisco SONA framework, enterprise campus architecture, and PPDIOO network life-cycle approach
• Review high availability designs and implement optimal redundancy
• Plan scalable EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP designs
• Implement advanced WAN services
• Evaluate design considerations in the data center core, aggregation, and access layers
• Design storage area networks (SANs) and extend the SAN with various protocols

• Design and tune an integrated e-commerce architecture

• Integrate firewall, NAC, and intrusion detection/prevention into your network design
• Design IPsec and SSL remote access VPNs
• Deploy IP multicast and multicast routing
• Incorporate voice over WLAN in the enterprise network
• Utilize the network management capabilities inherent in Cisco IOS® software

 

This volume is in the Certification Self-Study Series offered by Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide officially developed self-study solutions to help networking professionals understand technology implementations and prepare for the Cisco Career Certifications examinations.

 

Category: Network Design

Covers: ARCH exam 642-873

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About the Author

Keith Hutton is an information technology professional with close to 20 years of experience in the industry. Over the course of his career, Keith has worked as a professional services engineer, presales engineer, third-line operational support engineer, engineering team lead, instructor, and author. Keith currently works as a professional services engineer for Bell Canada, responsible for the design and configuration of network security infrastructures. Keith has a B.A. honors degree from Queen’s University, and is a certified Cisco instructor, Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), and Cisco Certified Internetworking Professional (CCIP).

 

Mark Schofield has been a network architect at Bell Canada for the past six years. Working for the largest service provider in Canada, he has designed Multiprotocol Layer Switching (MPLS) virtual private networks (VPNs) with IP quality of service (QoS) for large enterprise customers. During the past five years at Bell, he has been involved in the design, implementation, and planning of large national networks for Bell Canada’s federal government customers. As part of a cross-company team, he developed Bell Canada’s premier MPLS VPN product. Mark has a MLIS from the University of Western Ontario and a B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Guelph. Industry certifications include the Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (CCIP), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator (CCEA), and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

 

Diane Teare is a professional in the networking, training, project management, and elearning fields. She has more than 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting network hardware and software, and has been involved in teaching, course design, and project management. She has extensive knowledge of network design and routing technologies, and is an instructor with one of the largest authorized Cisco Learning Partners. She was recently the director of e-learning for the same company, where she was responsible for planning and supporting all the company’s e-learning offerings in Canada, including Cisco courses. Diane has a bachelor’s degree in applied science in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in applied science in management science. She is a certified Cisco instructor and currently holds her Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications. She coauthored the Cisco Press titles Campus Network Design Fundamentals, the three editions of Authorized Self-Study Guide Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI), and Building Scalable Cisco Networks; and edited the two editions of the Authorized Self-Study Guide Designing

for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN) and Designing Cisco Networks.

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Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH)

Introduction

Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH), Second Edition, covers how to perform the conceptual, intermediate, and detailed design of a network infrastructure. This design supports network solutions over intelligent network services to achieve effective performance, scalability, and availability of the network. This book enables readers, applying solid Cisco network solution models and best design practices, to provide viable and stable enterprise internetworking solutions. In addition, the book has been written to help candidates prepare for the Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures Exam (642-873 ARCH). This exam is one of the requirements for the CCDP certification. This exam tests a candidate’s knowledge of the latest development in network design and technologies, including network infrastructure, intelligent network services, and converged network solutions.

Since the first edition was published in 2004, the ARCH course has changed to reflect the new exam requirements. This led to the immediate need for an update to this examination preparation text. Readers of the previous edition of Designing Cisco Network Architectures (ARCH) can use this text to update their knowledge and skill sets.

Goals of This Book

Upon completing this book, you will be able to meet these objectives:

• Introduce the Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) framework, and explain how it addresses enterprise network needs for performance, scalability, and availability
• Describe how the Cisco Enterprise Architectures are used in the SONA framework for designing enterprise networks
• Create intermediate and detailed enterprise campus network, enterprise edge, and remote infrastructure designs that offer effective functionality, performance, scalability, and availability
• Create conceptual, intermediate, and detailed intelligent network service designs for network management, high availability, security, quality of service (QoS), and IP multicast
• Create conceptual, intermediate, and detailed virtual private network (VPN) designs
• Create conceptual, intermediate, and detailed voice over wireless network designs

Prerequisite Knowledge

Although enthusiastic readers will tackle less-familiar topics with some energy, a sound grounding in networking is advised. To gain the most from this book, you should be familiar with internetworking technologies, Cisco products, and Cisco IOS Software features. You will find knowledge about the following topics helpful for your successful understanding of the material presented in this book:

• How to design the necessary services to extend IP addresses using variable-length subnet masking (VLSM), Network Address Translation (NAT), and route summarization
• How to implement appropriate networking routing protocols, such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) on an existing internetwork
• How to redistribute routes between different routing protocols
• The required Cisco products and services that enable connectivity and traffic transport for a multilayer campus network
• The necessary services at each layer of the network to enable all users to obtain membership in multicast groups in a working enterprise network
• How to control network traffic by implementing the necessary admission policy at each layer of the network topology
• How to identify the appropriate hardware and software solutions for a given set of WAN technology requirements, including access between a central campus, branch offices, and telecommuters
• The Cisco equipment to establish appropriate WAN connections
• How to use protocols and technologies that enable traffic flow between multiple sites while minimizing the amount of overhead traffic on each connection
• QoS capabilities to ensure that mission-critical applications receive the required bandwidth within a given WAN topology
• How to implement Cisco voice solutions
• How to implement Cisco wireless solutions
• How to implement basic security steps and mitigation techniques

How This Book Is Organized

Of course, you can read the chapters in this book sequentially, but the organization also allows you to focus your reading on specific topics of interest. For example, if you want to focus on advanced routing design, you can skim Chapters 1 and 2 (which cover SONA and the elements of the enterprise campus network design), and then focus on the advanced IP addressing and routing topics in Chapter 3. Each chapter examines topics around a specific set of design issues. Specifically, the chapters in this book cover the following topics:

• Chapter 1, “Cisco SONA and the Cisco Enterprise Architecture,” introduces the hierarchical model. It reviews Cisco SONA framework. This chapter also introduces the Cisco Enterprise Campus Architecture and reviews the Cisco PPDIOO network lifecycle approach.
• Chapter 2, “Enterprise Campus Network Design,” reviews high-availability designs and how to implement optimal redundancy. An in-depth look at recommended practices for Layer 2 and Layer 3 design elements follows. A discussion of the Layer 2 to Layer 3 boundary designs and issues concludes with a number of considerations for supporting infrastructure services.
• Chapter 3, “Developing an Optimum Design for Layer 3,” begins by reviewing the importance of IP address planning, and then covers advanced routing elements. Discussions focus on scalable EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP designs.
• Chapter 4, “Advanced WAN Services Design Considerations,” covers advanced WAN service layers. This overview goes into more detail about the common WAN optical technologies of SONET, SDH, DWDM, and Resilient Packet Ring. A discussion about Metro Ethernet, VPLS, and MPLS VPN technologies follows (and includes an examination of a number of design considerations). The discussion then turns to implementing advanced WAN services.
• Chapter 5, “Enterprise Data Center Design,” focuses on the enterprise data center, and covers the data center architecture model and design consideration in the data center core, aggregation, and access layers. The discussion then turns to scaling, with a look at how to scale a three-layer data center architecture.
• Chapter 6, “SAN Design Considerations,” covers storage-area networks, from components and topologies to SAN technologies. SAN design factors center on port density and topology, with some discussion about extending the SAN with various protocols.
• Chapter 7, “E-Commerce Module Design,” begins with an e-commerce overview and a look at the components of high availability in this module. The chapter covers common e-commerce design components, designing an integrated e-commerce architecture, and how to fine-tune e-commerce designs.
• Chapter 8, “Security Services Design,” delves into designing firewall services in various scenarios. The chapter also covers network admission control services, with a review of Cisco NAC appliance fundamentals and NAS deployment options and designs. The discussion then turns to intrusion detection and prevention design.
• Chapter 9, “IPsec and SSL VPN Design,” examines remote-access VPN design. Site-to-site VPN designs are covered, too. This chapter also covers IPsec VPN technologies, including Cisco Easy VPN, GRE over IPsec, and DMVPN. Recommendations for managing VPNs and considerations for scaling VPNs conclude the chapter.
• Chapter 10, “IP Multicast Design,” covers IP multicast and multicast routing. Topics covered in this chapter include Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), rendezvous points, and securing IP multicast.
• Chapter 11, “VoWLAN Design,” introduces the Cisco Unified Wireless Network and examines requirements for voice over WLAN in the enterprise network. This chapter also discusses VoWLAN coverage considerations and the site survey process.
• Chapter 12, “Network Management Capabilities with Cisco IOS Software,” examines Cisco network management capabilities embedded in Cisco IOS Software. This chapter also covers the syslog process, NetFlow, and NBAR, with a focus on the Cisco technologies themselves and how they enable other discovery tools, including Cisco AutoQoS. The chapter concludes with an overview of IP SLAs measurements.

This book also contains an appendix and an acronym list:

• Appendix A, “Answers to Review Questions,” provides the answers to all the chapter-ending review questions.
• “Acronyms and Abbreviations,” identifies abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms used in this book.

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• Hardcover: 672 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press; 2 edition (January 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587055740
• ISBN-13: 978-1587055744
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5.0 out of 5 stars An essential book for CCDP studies, February 23, 2009

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This book helped me a lot with my CCDP preparations. It is a good consolidation of what a candidate has to know. Though this is not the complete guide and hands-on experience with Enterprise networking, network security and AVVID is needful

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4.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Manual for Self Study CCDP Aspirers, January 13, 2009

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Recently I had the opportunity to read the rough cut edition of the book "Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) (Authorized Self-Study Guide), Second Edition", ISBN 9781587058431, thanks to Pearson Education and Safari Online to offering to access the rough cut.
I would strongly recommend this book for the Cisco CCDP certification aspirers. Since I am working on the latest Network Upgrade plan it helped me a lot to understand the design considerations, Cisco Design Standards. Based on this book I could able to come out with an excellent Network Design for the Organization which I am working on.
The topics are covered in detail and extensive, the best part of this book happens to be the organization of the chapters; there 12 chapters in this book. This deals with the topics like SONA, Enterprise Campus Network Design, Enterprise Data Design, SAN Design Considerations etc.
One more interesting fact which helps is the reference segment at the end of each chapter. If someone wants to achieve his CCDP this is the book, you should go for it. This is the right manual which can be used as a Study guide to achieve CCNP. Also this manual proves to be a helpful guide for reference.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good book for prepare CCDP certification, August 2, 2010

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I am following this book for preparing my ccdp certification. It is useful for preparing certification and for knowing about actual network technologies.