Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks

Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks clarifies this complex task by outlining a top-down, step-by-step process for constructing a WAN or internetwork that is effective for your organization. This book will guide you through the steps of determining requirements, designing the network structure, choosing appropriate technologies, and evaluating results. The author's practical approach distills exactly what you need to know
about networking theory and technological background in order to accomplish a given task.

On the financial side, it is important to note that the difference between a good design and a poor one can represent many millions of dollars per year. This book presents a quantitative,business-oriented approach to network design. It focuses on the economic and performance
characteristics of various network technologies and carrier service options, and explains the conditions for which each is optimal.

Table of contents

Part I: Beginning the Internetwork Design Process

Chapter 1: Networks and Internetworks Technology Today

Chapter 2: The Internetwork Design Process: Overview

Chapter 3: Definition of Requirements

Part II: The Preliminary Design Phase

Chapter 4: Preliminary Design: Overview

Chapter 5: Circuit Costs and Cost Optimization Techniques

Chapter 6: Selecting Transmission Technologies

Chapter 7: Determing the Levels of Hierarchy

Chapter 8: Identifying Backbone Locations

Chapter 9: Creating a Preliminary Access Design

Chapter 10: Developing Strategies for Access Homing

Chapter 11: Creating a Preliminary Backbone Topological Design

Chapter 12: Naming, Addressing, and Routing

Chapter 13: Security

Chapter 14: The Public Internet: Unique Design Considerations

Chapter 15: Network Management

Chapter 16: Validation of the Design against the Requirements

Part III: The Management Review Phase

Chapter 17: Management Review: Financial Analysis

Part IV: The Final Design Phase

Chapter 18: Final Design Overview

Chapter 19: Selection of Carriers and Vendors

Index