Designing Wide Area Networks And Internetworks: A Practical Guide

Speedy, reliable, and secure communications are essential for maintaining an organizationis competitiveness, and Wide Area Networks and Internetworks are quickly proliferating in order to meet this need. Building such a network, however, can be a daunting task; a large investment is required, and organizations must navigate through a dizzying array of technological and design options.

"Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks" clarifies this complex task by outlining a top-down, step-by-step process for constructing a WAN or internetwork that is effective for your organization. This book will guide you through the steps of determining requirements, designing the network structure, choosing appropriate technologies, and evaluating results. The authoris practical approach distills exactly what you need to know about networking theory and technological background in order to accomplish a given task.

On the financial side, it is important to note that the difference between a good design and a poor one can represent many millions of dollars per year. This book presents a quantitative, business-oriented approach to network design. It focuses on the economic and performance characteristics of various network technologies and carrier service options, and explains the conditions for which each is optimal.
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Poor internetwork designs can cost their companies millions of dollars a year directly -- and impact competitiveness enterprise-wide. But few professionals have the broad interdisciplinary skills needed to design and optimize wide area internetworks. Now, leading network infrastructure authority J. Scott Marcus translates the hard-won wisdom of top internetwork designers into a coherent process any networking professional can use. Discover how to develop a holistic, integrated view of WANs and internetworks that encompasses technology, applications, operations, cost, performance, security, and long-term business goals. Learn how to define requirements; then choose the best topologies, data link technologies and carrier options for any internetwork. Then, discover exactly how to iterate a design to squeeze out hidden costs and inefficiencies. The book contains insightful coverage of ISDN, frame relay, ATM, SMDS, SONET, IP, xDSL, and VPNs; Web-based Excel worksheets for pricing networks, and much more. Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks: A Practical Guide is a breakthrough resource for every WAN and internetwork designer.