Whether a terrorist attack, fibre cut, security breach, natural disaster or traffic overload, today's networks must be designed to withstand adverse conditions and provide continuous service. This comprehensive, leading-edge book reveals the techniques and strategies to help you keep enterprise data and voice networks in service under critical circumstances. You learn numerous ways to minimize single points of failure through redundancy and backups, and discover how to select the right networking technologies to improve survivability and performance.
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Matthew Liotine is currently vice president of BLR Consulting and has formerly served as a product marketing director at AT&T Bell Laboratories. A former president of the Society of Information & Management Science, Chicago Chapter, Dr. Liotine holds a Ph.D. in engineering from Princeton University.
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Strategies, practices, and techniques of network continuity,
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This book presents strategies, practices, and techniques to plan networks that are survivable and have stable behavior. Although the practice of disaster recovery emphasizes restoration from outages and disruptions, this book is not intended to be a book on disaster recovery, Instead, it discusses hot to design survivability and performance into a network, using conventional networking technologies and practices, and how to create the ability to recover from a variety of problems. The author tells you what to look out for and what to keep in mind, and discusses the benefits and caveats of doing things a certain way.
The book doesn't specify individual technologies, products and solutions. It looks at the big picture and emphasizes higher-level architectural strategies. This book is about network continuity. It is the ability of a network to continue operations in light lf a disruption, regardless of the origins, while resources affected by the disruption are restored. In contrast to disaster recovery, network continuity stresses an avoidance approach that proactively implements measures to protect infrastructure and system from unplanned events, using techniques in distributed redundancy, replication, and network management, to create a self-healing environment. The book starts with principles of continuity in generic terms: fault mechanics, redundancy, tolerance, topologies, etc. Another chapter is devoted to metrics and measurements like recovery time objective (RTO), recovery point objective (RPO), mean time to failure (MTTF), exposure metrics, cost metrics, risk/loss metrics, performance metrics, and so on. The following chapter list basic networks topologies like star, mesh, ring, bus, etc. There is a chapter devoted to clustering, load balancing, switching and redirection. As about continuity, there are separate chapters devoted to network access continuity, software application continuity, storage continuity and continuity testing. Each chapter throughout the book is completed by a references section, which points to various magazine articles. I also recommend "Resilient Storage Networks" by Greg Schulz in addition to this book.
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primary data image, sense bytes, hot failover, media translators, recovery metrics, cache devices, power irregularities, network continuity, mirrored site, caching devices, failover process, recovery point objective, failed router, horizontal cross connect, main cross connect, fault resilience, recovery site, networked storage, cabling installation, transaction loss, load balancers, link aggregation, critical traffic, traffic surges, peering points Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Network World, Network Magazine, Network Computing, Disaster Recovery Journal, Gigabit Ethernet, Communications News, America's Network, Broadcast Engineering, Tech Republic, Continuity Facilities, Interactive Week, Continuity Metrics, Internet Week, Network Reliability-Supplement, New York, Parallel Sysplex, Storage Continuity, Englewood Cliffs, Internet Telephony, Tech Brief, Communications Systems Design, Federal Communications Commission, Hosting Tech, Internet World, Prentice Hall New!
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primary data image, sense bytes, hot failover, media translators, recovery metrics, cache devices, power irregularities, network continuity, mirrored site, caching devices, failover process, recovery point objective, failed router, horizontal cross connect, main cross connect, fault resilience, recovery site, networked storage, cabling installation, transaction loss, load balancers, link aggregation, critical traffic, traffic surges, peering points Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Network World, Network Magazine, Network Computing, Disaster Recovery Journal, Gigabit Ethernet, Communications News, America's Network, Broadcast Engineering, Tech Republic, Continuity Facilities, Interactive Week, Continuity Metrics, Internet Week, Network Reliability-Supplement, New York, Parallel Sysplex, Storage Continuity, Englewood Cliffs, Internet Telephony, Tech Brief, Communications Systems Design, Federal Communications Commission, Hosting Tech, Internet World, Prentice Hall New!
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