Designing Large Scale Lans

Designing Large Scale Lans

by KevinDooley (Author)

Synopsis

This text offers a vendor-neutral approach for designing large local area networks according to business or organizational needs, rather than from a product perspective. Kevin Dooley outlines top-down network design for building a technological infrastructure to fit your organization's requirements. Dooley argues that the design of a network is largely independent of the products used. Whether you use a Cisco or Juniper router, the same security issues and protocols apply. The questions he addresses in this book are need-specif ic: Do I use a router or a switch? Should I route between switched areas or switch between routed areas? The book covers topics from from security, bandwidth and scalability to network reliability, which includes backup, redundancy, and points of failure. Specific technologies are analyzed in detail: network topologies, routing and switching strategies, wireless, virtual LANs, firewalls and gateways, security, Internet protocols, bandwidth, and multicast services. The book also discusses proprietary technologies that are ubiquitous, such as Cisco's IOS and Novell's IPX.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: 1
Publisher: O'Reilly
Published: 07 Dec 2001

ISBN 10: 0596001509
ISBN 13: 9780596001506

Media Reviews
A very readable text with good illustration, I would recommend this book to general networking practitioners and those with growing networks of their own who want to be aware of the benefits of good design. - Raza Rizvi, News@UKUUG, October 2002
Author Bio
Kevin Dooley is an independent networking consultant who has been designing and implementing networks for almost 10 years. In that time he has built large scale Local and Wide Area Networks for several of Canada's largest companies. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Toronto.