Art of Network Architecture, The: Business-Driven Design
- By Russ White, Denise Donohue
- Published Apr 4, 2014 by Cisco Press. Part of the Networking Technology series.
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- The first business-centered, business-driven guide to architecting and evolving networks
- Teaches to ask the right business questions upfront, to evaluate business and application requirements from a network designer’s perspective
- Three chapter-length case studies: designing an L3VPN core, outsourcing to cloud services, and supporting BYOD
- Written by three of the world’s most experienced and successful network architects
- This book will come with power points of the book's figures to assist in classroom use.
- Copyright 2014
- Dimensions: 7-3/8" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 352
- Edition: 1st
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- ISBN-10: 1-58714-375-5
- ISBN-13: 978-1-58714-375-5
The Art of Network Architecture
Business-Driven Design
The business-centered, business-driven guide to architecting and evolving networks
The Art of Network Architecture is the first book that places business needs and capabilities at the center of the process of architecting and evolving networks. Two leading enterprise network architects help you craft solutions that are fully aligned with business strategy, smoothly accommodate change, and maximize future flexibility.
Russ White and Denise Donohue guide network designers in asking and answering the crucial questions that lead to elegant, high-value solutions. Carefully blending business and technical concerns, they show how to optimize all network interactions involving flow, time, and people.
The authors review important links between business requirements and network design, helping you capture the information you need to design effectively. They introduce today’s most useful models and frameworks, fully addressing modularity, resilience, security, and management. Next, they drill down into network structure and topology, covering virtualization, overlays, modern routing choices, and highly complex network environments.
In the final section, the authors integrate all these ideas to consider four realistic design challenges: user mobility, cloud services, Software Defined Networking (SDN), and today’s radically new data center environments.
• Understand how your choices of technologies and design paradigms will impact your business
• Customize designs to improve workflows, support BYOD, and ensure business continuity
• Use modularity, simplicity, and network management to prepare for rapid change
• Build resilience by addressing human factors and redundancy
• Design for security, hardening networks without making them brittle
• Minimize network management pain, and maximize gain
• Compare topologies and their tradeoffs
• Consider the implications of network virtualization, and walk through an MPLS-based L3VPN example
• Choose routing protocols in the context of business and IT requirements
• Maximize mobility via ILNP, LISP, Mobile IP, host routing, MANET, and/or DDNS
• Learn about the challenges of removing and changing services hosted in cloud environments
• Understand the opportunities and risks presented by SDNs
• Effectively design data center control planes and topologies
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Table of Contents
Introduction xx
Part I Framing the Problem
Chapter 1 Business and Technology 1
Business Drives Technology 2
The Business Environment 2
The Big Picture 3
The Competition 4
The Business Side of the Network 5
Technologies and Applications 5
Network Evaluation 6
The Network’s Customers 6
Internal Users 7
External Users 8
Guest Users 9
Technology Drives Business 9
Part II Business-Driven Design
Chapter 2 Designing for Change 11
Organic Growth and Decline 12
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestments 14
Centralizing Versus Decentralizing 15
Chapter 3 Improving Business Operations 19
Workflow 19
Matching Data Flow and Network Design 20
Person-to-Person Communication 21
Person-to-Machine Communication 21
Machine-to-Machine Communication 22
Bringing It All Together 23
BYOD 24
BYOD Options 24
BYOD Design Considerations 27
BYOD Policy 28
Business Continuity 29
Business Continuity Versus Disaster Recovery 29
Business Continuity Planning 30
Business Continuity Design Considerations 31
Summary 33
Part III Tools of the Trade
Chapter 4 Models 35
The Seven-Layer Model 36
Problems with the Seven-Layer Model 38
The Four-Layer Model 38
Iterative Layering Model 39
Connection-Oriented and Connectionless 41
A Hybrid Model 42
The Control Plane 43
What Am I Trying to Reach? 43
Where Is It? 44
How Do I Get There? 45
Other Network Metadata 46
Control Plane Relationships 46
Routing 46
Quality of Service 48
Network Measurement and Mana
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