Network Consultant's Handbook

by Matthew J. Castelli

The essential resource and planning tool for Network Consultants This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587050390
• ISBN13: 9781587050398
• Release Date: January 1839
• Publisher: Cisco Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 3.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Giving you a look into the world of Cisco Networking.

In the IT industry consultants of any networking value are constantly updating the skill sets with the latest information available, so it is true with Cisco Consultants and technicians. This book is one of the first sources I have ever found to bring to you information about Cisco products and networking.Beginning the 960 plus page manual is the OSI Model, layer by layer, then LAN Topologies, with topics like unicast, broadcast and multicast as well as bus, ring and star topologies. Finally this section gives you information about the hard devices you'll be working with.802.3, Ethernet, documentation and analysis take chapters 3,4 & 5 followed up with Token Ring and 802.5. FDDI, ATM LANE, telecommunications such as ISDN, DSLx, and T1 and DS technologies are next on the list of topics discussed.The author covers Fiber Optics real well in Chapter 14 and then moves on to 120 pages of Frame Relay. The next 65 pages are for ATM, ATM WAN, MPOA, cell and cell relay coverage. Other topics covered are VoIP, VPN, SMNP and network management and that gets you to chapter 24.From there the author takes 110 pages to cover the routing protocols associated with Cisco routers, protocols like RIP, RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS and BGP. The book is rounded out by IPv6 and Multiprotocol Label switching. I do think more coverage of switches and switching could have been included as well.Several appendices were also included for things like Network Assessments, subnet masks and protocol lists. The book has several case studies included to help you understand the concepts presented as well as screen shots of the actual router code. Overall this is one great book to have and a great addition to my technical library.