| 1. | - Achieving Nomadicity: Accessing the Internet Anytime, Anywhere
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Kevin Shatzkamer, Mark Grayson, Klaas Wierenga
- Mar 11, 2011
- This chapter explains the key concepts that make it possible for users and devices to gain access to IP networks and IP-based applications that are offered by others than their own operator.
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| 2. | - An Overview of Cisco IP Communications
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Anne Smith, John Alexander, Chris Pearce, Delon Whetten
- Dec 9, 2005
- This chapter provides an overview of Cisco IP Communications, including VoIP and how Cisco IP Communications differs from traditional telephone systems, and how you can use VoIP to achieve savings by routing your telephone calls over the IP WAN.
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| 3. | - Analyzing Business Goals and Constraints of Network Design
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Priscilla Oppenheimer
- Aug 6, 2004
- This chapter covers typical network design business goals and constraints and talks about the top-down process for gathering information on goals, and the importance of using systematic methods for network design.
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| 4. | - Analyzing the Cisco Enterprise Campus Architecture
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Balaji Sivasubramanian, Erum Frahim, Richard Froom
- Jul 15, 2010
- This chapter introduces you to the concepts of enterprise campus designs, along with an implementation process that can ensure a successful campus network deployment.
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| 5. | - Applying the Principles of Network Design
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Alvaro Retana, Don Slice, Russ White
- Feb 1, 2002
- To illustrate three basics of highly scalable networks, this Cisco Press sample chapter "reforms" a network that is experiencing stability problems to make it stable and scalable.
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| 6. | - Cisco Data Center Virtualization Server Architectures
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Roger Andersson, Silvano Gai, Tommi Salli
- Jul 1, 2010
- This chapter examines processor, memory, and I/O subsystems with particular reference to servers built according to the IA-32, often generically called x86 architecture.
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| 7. | - Cisco Network Topologies and LAN Design
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Anthony Bruno, Jacqueline Kim
- Nov 16, 2001
- This chapter from CCDA Exam Certification Guide reviews the topologies used in network design and covers the technologies and design approaches used when designing a local-area network (LAN).
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| 8. | - Cisco Network Topology and Design
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Khalid Raza, Mark Turner
- Feb 1, 2002
- Explore design issues related to overall network topology with this sample chapter from Cisco Press.
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| 9. | - Configuring the Catalyst
- By
Kennedy Clark, Kevin Hamilton
- Feb 1, 2002
- This sample chapter from Cisco Press compares differences between the router CLI and the Catalyst 4000/5000/6000 family, describes the command line interface and provides an overview of the menu driven configuration for the other Catalysts.
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| 10. | - Content Delivery Networks
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Scott Herrmann, Jeremy Laurenson, Matthew Recore
- Oct 18, 2002
- to come
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| 11. | - Eight Cool Things You Probably Don’t Know About Data Centers
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Douglas Alger
- Sep 27, 2012
- Doug Alger, author of The Art of the Data Center, discusses eight cool things most people don’t realize about Data Centers in this InformIT exclusive audio segment.
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| 12. | - General Design Considerations for Secure Networks
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Sean Convery
- Jun 18, 2004
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| 13. | - Green Data Center Design and Build Strategies
- By
Douglas Alger
- Aug 12, 2009
- This chapter discusses methods for limiting the environmental impact that occurs during the construction of a Data Center.
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| 14. | - I/O Consolidation in the Data Center
- By
Claudio DeSanti, Silvano Gai
- Sep 23, 2009
- This chapter explains the benefits and challenges of designing physical infrastructure to simultaneously carry multiple types of traffic.
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| 15. | - Improve Your Network's Security Using Network Admission Control
- By
Sean Convery
- Aug 26, 2005
- Is there a place for security focused on the good guys in networking? There is, and one of the latest additions to this area of security is called Network Admission Control (NAC). Sean Convery introduces NAC, a security measure built around the idea that asking specific questions of an organization's end hosts can improve the overall security of a network by improving the compliance of end systems to a given admission policy.
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| 16. | - Initial Interdomain Network Topology
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Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Aug 9, 2002
- Take a look at a detailed example of an ISP customer within an interdomain multicast network implemented SSM in its network using URD, and learn the three ways to implement SSM in an interdomain environment.
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| 17. | - Introduction to Cisco Network Design
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Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Feb 8, 2002
- This sample chapter from Cisco Press provides an overview of the technologies available today to design networks.
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| 18. | - Introduction to Cisco NX-OS
- By
David Jansen, Kevin Corbin, Ron Fuller
- Jul 19, 2010
- This chapter provides an introduction and overview of NX-OS and a comparison between traditional IOS and NX-OS configurations and terminology.
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| 19. | - Make the Right Call: Cisco's AVVID
- By
Robert Richardson
- Jun 21, 2002
- Robert Richardson discusses the pros and cons of Cisco's AVVID — what the industry's been talking about all along for pure IP convergence: smart IP phones plugged into an Ethernet network full of conventional switches and routers. Plenty of issues need to be ironed out, though.
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| 20. | - Offloading Traditional Mobile Networks with IP
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Kevin Shatzkamer, Mark Grayson, Scott Wainner
- Jun 23, 2009
- This chapter discusses pseudowire transport mechanisms used to provide a bridge between the legacy TDM systems and All IP systems on mobile networks.
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