| CCIE Professional Development: Advanced IP Network Design provides the solutions network engineers and managers need to grow and stabilize large IP networks. Technology advancements and corporate growth inevitably lead to the necessity for network expansion. This book presents design concepts and techniques that enable networks to evolve into supporting larger, more complex applications while maintaining critical stability. CCIE Professional Development: Advanced IP Network Design provides you with a basic foundation to understand and implement the most efficient network design around the network core, distribution and access layers, and the common and edge network services. After establishing an efficient hierarchical network design, you will learn to apply OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, BGP, NHRP, and MPLS. Case studies support each protocol to provide you with valuable solutions to common stumbling blocks encountered when implementing an IGP- or EGP-based network.
The inevitable law of networks seems to be the following: Anything that is small will grow large, anything that is large will grow into something huge, and anything that is huge will grow into a multinational juggernaut. The corollary to this law seems to be as follows: Once a network has become a multinational juggernaut, someone will come along and decide to switch from one routing protocol to another. They will add one more application, or a major core link will flap, and it will melt (during dinner, of course).
In CCIE Professional Development: Advanced IP Network Design, we intend to present the basic concepts necessary to build a scalable network. Because we work in the "it's broken, fix it (yesterday!)" side of the industry, these basics will be covered through case studies as well as theoretical discussion. This book covers good ways to design things, some bad ways to design things, and general design principles. When it seems appropriate, we'll even throw in some troubleshooting tips for good measure. You will find the foundation that is necessary for scaling your network into whatever size it needs to be (huge is preferred, of course). |
