A hands-on guide for network engineers deploying, maintaining, and building IS-IS networks. Readers will also find case studies and operational theory about this powerful and popular routing protocol.

IS-IS: Deployment in IP Networks

Computers & Technology

White, Russ

Retana, Alvaro

Certification

Addison-Wesley

(Pearson Education) A practical guide to understanding and working with EIGRP. Focuses on EIGRP in the context of IP. Provides an overview of concepts, terminology, and EIGRP mechanisms. Examines network design, offering concrete tips for design issues that arise in EIGRP networks. Softcover. DLC: Routers (Computer networks).

EIGRP for IP: Basic Operation and Configuration (The Addison-Wesley Networking Basics Series)

Slice, Don

A core textbook for CCIE preparation 
<ul>
<li>Learn how to apply effective hierarchical design principles to build stable, large-scale networks</li>
<li>Examine broken networks and discover the best methods for fixing them</li>
<li>Understand how the right topology enhances network performance</li>
<li>Construct the most efficient addressing and summarization scheme for your network</li>
<li>Prevent network failure by applying the most appropriate redundancy at the network core, distribution layer, and access layer</li>
<li>Extend your network's capabilities through proper deployment of advanced IGP- and EGP-based protocols</li>
</ul>
Advanced IP Network Design provides the solutions network engineers 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. 
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 heirarchical 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 blocks encountered when implementing an IGP- or EGP-based network
Advanced IP Network Design offers expert-level solutions and help with CCIE exam preparation through the following features: practical discussion and implementation of CCIE-level networking issues; case studies that highlight real-world design, implementation, management, and troubleshooting issues; scenarios that help you put the presented solutions to use; and chapter-ending review questions and exercises.

Advanced IP Network Design (CCIE Professional Development)

Networking & Cloud Computing

Cisco Systems

Techniques for optimizing large-scale IP routing operation and managing network growth <ul>
<li>Understand the goals of scalable network design, including tradeoffs between network scaling, convergence speed, and resiliency </li>
<li>Learn basic techniques applicable to any network design, including hierarchy, addressing, summarization, and information hiding </li>
<li>Examine the deployment and operation of EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS protocols on large-scale networks </li>
<li>Understand when and how to use a BGP core in a large-scale network and how to use BGP to connect to external networks </li>
<li>Apply high availability and fast convergence to achieve 99.999 percent, or “five 9s” network uptime </li>
<li>Secure routing systems with the latest routing protocol security best practices </li>
<li>Understand the various techniques used for carrying routing information through a VPN</li>
</ul>
Optimal Routing Design provides the tools and techniques, learned through years of experience with network design and deployment, to build a large-scale or scalable IP-routed network. The book takes an easy-to-read approach that is accessible to novice network designers while presenting invaluable, hard-to-find insight that appeals to more advanced-level professionals as well. Written by experts in the design and deployment of routing protocols, Optimal Routing Design leverages the authors’ extensive experience with thousands of customer cases and network designs. Boiling down years of experience into best practices for building scalable networks, this book presents valuable information on the most common problems network operators face when seeking to turn best effort IP networks into networks that can support Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)-type availability and reliability. Beginning with an overview of design fundamentals, the authors discuss the tradeoffs between various competing points of network design, the concepts of hierarchical network design, redistribution, and addressing and summarization. This first part provides specific techniques, usable in all routing protocols, to work around real-world problems. The next part of the book details specific information on deploying each interior gateway protocol (IGP)–including EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS–in real-world network environments. Part III covers advanced topics in network design, including border gateway protocol (BGP), high-availability, routing protocol security, and virtual private networks (VPN). Appendixes cover the fundamentals of each routing protocol discussed in the book; include a checklist of questions and design goals that provides network engineers with a useful tool when evaluating a network design; and compare routing protocols strengths and weaknesses to help you decide when to choose one protocol over another or when to switch between protocols. “The complexity associated with overlaying voice and video onto an IP network involves thinking through latency, jitter, availability, and recovery issues. This text offers keen insights into the fundamentals of network architecture for these converged environments.” –John Cavanaugh, Distinguished Services Engineer, Cisco Systems® This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press‚ which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.

Optimal Routing Design

Techniques for optimizing large-scale IP routing operation and managing network growth <ul>
<li>Understand the goals of scalable network design, including tradeoffs between network scaling, convergence speed, and resiliency </li>
<li>Learn basic techniques applicable to any network design, including hierarchy, addressing, summarization, and information hiding </li>
<li>Examine the deployment and operation of EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS protocols on large-scale networks </li>
<li>Understand when and how to use a BGP core in a large-scale network and how to use BGP to connect to external networks </li>
<li>Apply high availability and fast convergence to achieve 99.999 percent, or “five 9s” network uptime </li>
<li>Secure routing systems with the latest routing protocol security best practices </li>
<li>Understand the various techniques used for carrying routing information through a VPN</li> </ul>
 Optimal Routing Design provides the tools and techniques, learned through years of experience with network design and deployment, to build a large-scale or scalable IP-routed network. The book takes an easy-to-read approach that is accessible to novice network designers while presenting invaluable, hard-to-find insight that appeals to more advanced-level professionals as well. Written by experts in the design and deployment of routing protocols, Optimal Routing Design leverages the authors’ extensive experience with thousands of customer cases and network designs. Boiling down years of experience into best practices for building scalable networks, this book presents valuable information on the most common problems network operators face when seeking to turn best effort IP networks into networks that can support Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)-type availability and reliability. Beginning with an overview of design fundamentals, the authors discuss the tradeoffs between various competing points of network design, the concepts of hierarchical network design, redistribution, and addressing and summarization. This first part provides specific techniques, usable in all routing protocols, to work around real-world problems. The next part of the book details specific information on deploying each interior gateway protocol (IGP)—including EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS—in real-world network environments. Part III covers advanced topics in network design, including border gateway protocol (BGP), high-availability, routing protocol security, and virtual private networks (VPN). Appendixes cover the fundamentals of each routing protocol discussed in the book; include a checklist of questions and design goals that provides network engineers with a useful tool when evaluating a network design; and compare routing protocols strengths and weaknesses to help you decide when to choose one protocol over another or when to switch between protocols. “The complexity associated with overlaying voice and video onto an IP network involves thinking through latency, jitter, availability, and recovery issues. This text offers keen insights into the fundamentals of network architecture for these converged environments.” —John Cavanaugh, Distinguished Services Engineer, Cisco Systems® This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press‚ which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.

Optimal Routing Design (Networking Technology)

Cisco Press