Design your networks to successfully manage their growing complexity Network professionals have often been told that today’s modern control planes would simplify their networks. The opposite has happened: Technologies like SDN and NFV, although immensely valuable, are exacerbating complexity instead of solving it. Navigating Network Complexity is the first comprehensive guide to managing this complexity in both deployment and day-to-day operations. Russ White and Jeff Tantsura introduce modern complexity theory from the standpoint of the working network engineer, helping you apply it to the practical problems you face every day. Avoiding complex mathematical models, they show how to characterize network complexity, so you can understand it and control it. The authors examine specific techniques and technologies associated with network control planes, including SDNs, fast reroute, segment routing, service chaining, and cloud computing. They reveal how each of these affects network design and complexity and help you anticipate causes of failure in highly complex systems. Next, they turn to modern control planes, examining the fundamental operating principles of SDNs, such as OpenFlow and I2RS, network and other service function virtualization, content distribution networks, Layer 2 fabrics, and service chaining solutions. You’ll learn how each of these might both resolve and increase complexity in network design and operations and what you can do about it. Coverage includes: <ul>
<li> Defining complexity, understanding its components, and measuring it </li> <li> Mastering a straightforward “state, speed, and surface” model for analyzing complexity </li> <li> Controlling complexity in design, deployment, operations, protocols, and programmable networks </li> <li> Understanding how complex network systems begin to fail and how to prevent failure </li> <li> Recognizing complexity tradeoffs in service virtualization and service chaining </li> <li> Managing new challenges of complexity in virtualized and cloud environments </li> <li> Learning why constructs such as hierarchical design, aggregation, and protocol layering work and when they work best </li> <li> Choosing the right models to contain complexity as your network changes </li> </ul> From start to finish, Navigating Network Complexity helps you assess the true impact of new network technologies, so they can capture more value with fewer problems.

Navigating Network Complexity: Next-generation routing with SDN, service virtualization, and service chaining

Computers & Technology

White, Russ

Tantsura, Jeff (Evgeny)

Networking & Cloud Computing

Addison-Wesley Professional

Trust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for the CCST Networking 100-150 exam. Well regarded for its level of detail, study plans, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that ensure your exam success and is the only self-study resource approved by Cisco. Leading Cisco technology expert and best-selling author Russ White shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. This complete study package includes <ul> <li>A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exam</li> <li>Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section</li> <li>Exam Topic lists that make referencing easy</li> <li>Chapter-ending exercises, which help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly</li> <li>The powerful Pearson Test Prep Practice Test software, complete with hundreds of well-reviewed, exam-realistic questions, customization options, and detailed performance reports</li> <li>More than 5 hours of video mentoring from the author</li> <li>An online Flash Cards application to help you drill on Key Terms by chapter</li> <li>A final preparation chapter, which guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your review and test-taking strategies</li> <li>Study plan suggestions and templates to help you organize and optimize your study time</li> </ul> Content Update Program: This Cert Guide includes coverage of all the topics on the Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking exam from the original exam blueprint. Visit ciscopress.com/newcerts for information on any digital updates for this book that align with Cisco exam blueprint version changes The Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide walks you through all the exam topics found in the Cisco CCST exam. Topics covered include <ul> <li>Standards and Concepts</li> <li>Addressing and Subnet Formats</li> <li>Endpoints and Media Types</li> <li>Infrastructure</li> <li>Diagnosing Problems</li> <li>Security</li> </ul> Companion Website The companion website contains more than 200 unique practice exam questions, practice exercises, a study planner, online flash cards, and more than 5 hours of video training. Pearson Test Prep online system requirements: Browsers: Chrome version 73 and above, Safari version 12 and above, Microsoft Edge 44 and above. Devices: Desktop and laptop computers, tablets running on Android v8.0 and above and iOS v13 and above, smartphones with a minimum screen size of 4.7". Internet access required. Pearson Test Prep offline system requirements: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1; Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Client; Pentium-class 1 GHz processor (or equivalent); 512 MB RAM; 650 MB disk space plus 50 MB for each downloaded practice exam; access to the Internet to register and download exam databases Also available from Cisco Press for CCST study is the Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide Premium Edition and Practice Test. This digital-only certification preparation product combines an eBook with an enhanced Pearson Test Prep Practice Test. This integrated learning package: <ul> <li>Enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams</li> <li>Includes direct links from each question to detailed tutorials to help you understand the concepts behind the questions</li> <li>Provides unique sets of exam-realistic practice questions</li> <li>Tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most</li> </ul>

Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide

Certification

Cisco Press

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

Retana, Alvaro

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

PRACTICAL BGP “I would recommend this book to network engineers, Internet service providers, network software developers, and IT staff who need to deal with network planning and routing.” –Enke Chen, Redback Networks Hands-on guidance for deploying and optimizing BGP networks–enterprise and ISP Now there’s a practical guide to deploying and managing BGPv4 in any environment–from small enterprises to the largest Tier 2 and Tier 3 service providers. A team of the world’s leading BGP experts brings together powerful insights into network design, configuration, and deployment with the latest version of BGP–including hands-on guidance for leveraging its key enhancements. Coverage includes • Best practices and diverse real-world scenarios for applying BGPv4 • Understanding the impact of BGP design on local networks and the global Internet backbone • Building effective BGP policies: aggregation, propagation, accounting, and more • Maximizing scalability and performance in BGPv4 networks • BGP and network security, including Secure Origin BGP • Deploying BGP/MPLS Layer 3 VPNs • Extensive troubleshooting guidance unavailable in any other book If you’re a network engineer or administrator looking to drive maximum reliability and performance from BGP-based networks, Practical BGP will help you get the job done–from start to finish. RUSS WHITE is a Network Protocols Deployment Engineer in Cisco Systems Routing DNA Team specializing in routing protocols. A widely recognized expert in networking, he co-chairs the IETF Routing Protocols Security working group, and co-authored Advanced IP Network Design, IS—IS for IP Networks, and Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture. DANNY McPHERSON is a member of the Architecture Team at Arbor Networks. He has held technical leadership positions with several global ISPs, is active within the IETF, and is an acknowledged expert in Internet architecture and security. He co-authored Internet Routing Architectures, Second Edition. SRIHARI SANGLI, Senior Manager for MPLS and routing development at Procket Networks, was formerly Senior Technical Leader in Cisco’s IOS Routing Protocols group. He, along with others at Cisco, coded the industry-first implementation of BGP/MPLS based Layer-3 VPN.

Practical BGP

Cat Got Your Tongue?

Cornelison, Reuel

Russ White Publishing

Jess Wirth lives a dreary life. He spends most of his time crammed inside a cubicle, toiling as a network engineer and stewing over the details of his ugly divorce. But when he finds his co-worker dead in the basement of their office, Jess’s life takes a surprising—and unpleasant—turn. The police quickly declare the death a suicide, but Jess isn’t so sure. Not long after he begins digging into the victim’s work, another co-worker turns up dead, convincing him once and for all that something sinister is brewing behind the cubicle walls. His investigation leads him to a mysterious woman name Leah, who pushes him to entrust her with the information he’s collected about his dead colleagues. Wary of Leah’s motives yet inexorably drawn to her, Jess keeps her at arm’s length…until an attempt is made on both their lives. Realizing they are close on the trail of a dangerous criminal, the pair race to expose a data theft ring before they become the killer’s next victims.

Loss of Carrier

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

BookSurge Publishing

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)

Cisco Systems

An essential guide to understanding the Cisco IOS architecture
In-depth coverage of Cisco's IOS Software architecture provides crucial information to:
<ul>
<li>Prevent network problems and optimize performance through more efficient design and configuration</li>
<li>Isolate and resolve network problems more quickly and easily</li>
<li>Apply the appropriate packet switching method, such as process switching, fast switching, optimum switching, or Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)</li>
<li>Understand the hardware architecture, packet buffering, and packet switching processes for shared memory routers (Cisco 1600, 2500, 3600, 4000, 4500, and 4700 series)</li>
<li>Understand the hardware architecture, packet buffering, and packet switching processes for the Cisco 7200 series routers</li>
<li>Understand the hardware architecture, packet buffering, and packet switching processes for the Cisco 7500 series routers</li>
<li>Understand the hardware architecture, packet buffering, and packet switching processes for the Cisco GSR 12000 series routers</li>
<li>Further your knowledge of how IOS Software implements Quality of Service (QoS)</li>
</ul>
Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture offers crucial and hard-to-find information on Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS) Software. IOS Software provides the means by which networking professionals configure and manage Cisco networking devices. Beyond understanding the Cisco IOS command set, comprehending what happens inside Cisco routers will help you as a network designer or engineer to perform your job more effectively. By understanding the internal operations of IOS Software, you will be able to take architectural considerations into account when designing networks and isolate problems more easily when troubleshooting networks. Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture provides essential information on the internal aspects of IOS Software at this level, and it is an invaluable resource for better understanding the intricacies of IOS Software and how it affects your network.
Inide Cisco IOS Software Architecture begins with an overview of operating system concepts and the IOS Software infrastructure, including processes, memory management, CPU scheduling, packet buffers, and device drivers, as well as a discussion of packet switching architecture with detailed coverage of the various platform-independent switching methods, including process switching, fast switching, optimum switching, and Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF). The book then delves into the intricate details of the design and operation of platform-specific features, including the 1600, 2500, 4x00, 3600, 7200, 7500, and GSR Cisco routers. Finally, an overview of IOS Quality of Service (QoS) is provided, including descriptions of several QoS methods, such as priority queuing, custom queuing, weighted fair queuing, and modified deficit round robin.

Inside Cisco Ios Software Architecture

Bollapragada, Vijay

Murphy, Curtis

Inside Cisco's Packet Forwarding Architetures

Dunn, Rodney

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