Top-Down Network Design: Second Edition

Author: (USA) Oppenheimer / Hu Jie / Mao Yonghua
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: This book is written around the top-down network design steps, providing network designers with a systematic and structured network design methodology. The entire book is divided into four parts: Customer Needs and Goals, Logical Network Design, Physical Network Design, and Network Testing, Optimization, and Documentation. Each part corresponds to a key stage of network design. Every stage provides readers with detailed design guidelines, covering all aspects of network design. Starting from the analysis of user business and technical goals, it formulates corresponding network traffic, load, and QoS requirements, then develops the logical topology structure of the network, and then proceeds to address planning, protocol selection, network security, and the implementation of network management strategies. Finally, it offers recommendations for selecting network devices, as well as network implementation, testing, and documentation. The book finally provides a description of network traffic characteristics during workstation startup and a glossary of key terms. Professionals engaged in network technology will benefit greatly from this book.