| 1. | - 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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| 2. | - 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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| 3. | - Introduction to Cisco NX-OS
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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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| 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. | - 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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| 6. | - 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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| 7. | - Using Static IP Addresses on Your Network
- By
Eric Geier
- Sep 14, 2009
- Eric Geier helps you discover ways to convert from dynamic to static addresses on your network.
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| 8. | - 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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| 9. | - Offloading Traditional Mobile Networks with IP
- By
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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| 10. | - Structuring and Modularizing the Network with Cisco Enterprise Architecture
- By
Diane Teare
- Jun 12, 2008
- This chapter introduces a modular hierarchical approach to network design, the Cisco Enterprise Architecture.
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| 11. | - 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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| 12. | - Improve Your Network's Security Using Network Admission Control
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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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| 13. | - Troubleshooting Unicast Flooding Due to Topology
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Balaji Sivasubramanian
- Sep 10, 2004
- Unicast flooding occurs for many reasons in a switched network. This article addresses how to detect and troubleshoot unicast flooding issues due to spanning tree topology changes.
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| 14. | - 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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| 15. | - General Design Considerations for Secure Networks
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Sean Convery
- Jun 18, 2004
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| 16. | - Using Multicast Domains
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Ivan Pepelnjak, Jeff Apcar, Jim Guichard
- Jun 27, 2003
- Learn how multicast domains allow service providers to offer mVPN services to their customers by using native multicasting techniques in the core. You will see the many advantages of these multicasting techniques and how they can relate to you and your customers.
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| 17. | - WDM Network Design
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Tony Antony, Ashwin Gumaste
- Feb 7, 2003
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| 18. | - Content Delivery Networks
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Scott Herrmann, Jeremy Laurenson, Matthew Recore
- Oct 18, 2002
- to come
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| 19. | - Initial Interdomain Network Topology
- By
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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| 20. | - 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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