Network Engineer's Handbook

Author: (USA) Castillo
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book provides valuable information for network professionals to build efficient networks, understand new technologies, and achieve career success. Companion Website: The companion website for this book offers downloadable versions of data collection and analysis templates. These templates provide an easy-to-complete solution, allowing you to collect the necessary data to complete network environment analysis. Through this book, readers can:
· Learn the principles of network review and evaluation to help collect data and analyze network environments;
· Use the tables and calculation formulas in the book to quickly obtain answers to network interconnection issues;
· Learn the techniques for drawing network diagrams to help consultants and engineers complete network diagrams in internal documentation;
· Know which network technologies to use to provide solutions for clients.
For network consultants, designers, and integrators, in addition to mastering professional knowledge, it is also necessary to know how to apply this knowledge to complex, dynamic environments to identify the root causes of network issues and develop and implement solutions. This book is a comprehensive reference manual for network interconnection technologies, suitable for evaluating, reviewing, analyzing, and assessing any network environment. The book briefly introduces various network technologies; explains where and how to collect network information, how to analyze the information, and how to write corresponding documentation, while providing templates for tables needed during network reviews, device commands to help obtain necessary information, and tables to assist in documentation. The book is divided into 27 chapters, briefly introducing technologies such as Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, Frame Relay, LANE, telecommunication and telephone technologies, dedicated WAN, fiber technology, ATM, voice technology, remote access and VPN, routing protocols, IPv6, and MPLS, while also covering various network analysis and documentation techniques. This book is suitable for network designers, managers, and sales personnel to read, as well as for those who wish to understand various network interconnection technologies. Readers can place it on their desks for easy reference at any time, or use the tables or calculation formulas in the book to quickly obtain answers to network interconnection issues.