Router Principles and Design

Author: Bai Jianzhu
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Publication Date: 2002-07-01
Features: Starting from the basic principles of routers, this book combines engineering practices with the current state and trends of router technology development worldwide to introduce in-depth and accessible ways a series of key technologies and implementation challenges in high-performance router design. The main contents include: the architecture of high-performance routers, high-speed interfaces, system software, routing systems, and the design and implementation techniques of routing protocol stacks. It also provides an in-depth introduction to routing table issues, advanced switching technologies, router security systems, and QoS. At the end, it presents the main technical specifications of some mainstream high-end router products worldwide. This book is comprehensive and is one of the few detailed books on router design available today. It is suitable for network engineers with a certain network foundation, as well as university teachers and students in network-related fields, and can also serve as a reference for those involved in network data product R&D.