End-To-End QoS Network Design

by Tim Szigeti and Christina Hattingh

Book Overview

Best-practice QoS designs for protecting voice, video, and critical data while mitigating network denial-of-service attacks Understand the service-level requirements of voice, video, and data... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587051761
• ISBN13: 9781587051760
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Cisco Press
• Length: 734 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Great book!

It's a great book for a network engineer. I think it should be a must for any person who is looking to be a great network designer.

A solid reference for the enterprise user and service-provider alike!

When this book first arrived at my doorstep, I figured it would be a quick read, a review of information I was already fairly comfortable with, and just another presentation of the same-old material. I couldn't have been more wrong! Over the last several months, a number of hours have been devoted to leafing through the pages of valuable information, learning something new every time! Szigeti and Hattingh have done a superb job in putting this reference together. From the basic fundamental concepts of QoS, to the tuning and optimization of QoS policies, this book covers it all pretty well. QoS design considerations, both on the campus as well as the WAN, are covered in a way that is easy to understand. A significant amount of material is dedicated to explaining QoS support on the various models of Cisco Catalyst switches, with a solid breakdown of each. A number of case studies guide you through real-world examples of how QoS technologies are best leveraged, in clear, concise detail. The at-a-glance guides in the back of the book are also good reference material. For the enterprise user and service provider alike, this guide will prove to be a valuable tool when tackling in the toughest of QoS tasks. I would give this book a solid 5 on the scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being amazing! Great job with this book, keep up the good work!

A "must have" for any network engineer

Excellent book. Well written and the material is very well presented. It covers the different QoS technologies with very good examples and explanations. This is a "must have" to any network engineer that is planning to design, deploy and maitain QoS in a networking infrastructure.

Good Treatment of an Arcane Subject.

Welcome to Quality of Service (QoS). Life used to be so simple, you went to Ma Bell and ordered just what you wanted in switched or dedicated circuits and you got a (more or les) clear channel from Point A to Point B. But then we moved to packet switching where everything being sent is broken into small packets, given a destination address and thrown out into a big communications pipe with billions of other packets, each madly striving to get to its own destination. This book starts with the early history of making some packets more equal than others (to borrow from George Orwell) so that time sensitive packets (like voice) have a priority over data for which a few tenths of a scond delay is not critical. It marches to the drumbeat that proper QoS structure in your network will provide satisfactory service to each user with the minimum outlay for bandwidth. The book has enough background and basic information to be helpful to the user, and continues as far as you want to go into the details of individual pieces of equipment. Being as the book is from Cisco Press, obviously Cisco equipment is featured, but it is general enough to be of use with older legacy equipment and that of other manufacturers. It's the most complete book I've seen on the subject.