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Implementing Cisco Networking Solutions

By : Harpreet Singh
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Book Image

Implementing Cisco Networking Solutions

5 (1)
By: Harpreet Singh

Overview of this book

Most enterprises use Cisco networking equipment to design and implement their networks. However, some networks outperform networks in other enterprises in terms of performance and meeting new business demands, because they were designed with a visionary approach. The book starts by describing the various stages in the network lifecycle and covers the plan, build, and operate phases. It covers topics that will help network engineers capture requirements, choose the right technology, design and implement the network, and finally manage and operate the network. It divides the overall network into its constituents depending upon functionality, and describe the technologies used and the design considerations for each functional area. The areas covered include the campus wired network, wireless access network, WAN choices, datacenter technologies, and security technologies. It also discusses the need to identify business-critical applications on the network, and how to prioritize these applications by deploying QoS on the network. Each topic provides the technology choices, and the scenario, involved in choosing each technology, and provides configuration guidelines for configuring and implementing solutions in enterprise networks.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the changing role of networks in a digital world, the various challenges faced by networks because of dynamic business environments, and how networks can be adapted to these challenges by using a structured approach to network design.

We looked at the different characteristics of good network design and what they mean from an operations perspective.

In the next chapter, we will delve deeper into how to accommodate the desirable characteristics while designing the network. We will cover the different parts of an organization's IT network and discuss the functions of each part of the network before we drill down into each part individually in later chapters.