Building Service-Aware Networks: The Next-Generation WAN/MAN
- By Muhammad Afaq Khan
- Published Sep 16, 2009 by Cisco Press. Part of the Networking Technology series.
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- Copyright 2010
- Edition: 1st
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- ISBN-10: 1-58705-788-3
- ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-788-5
Building Service-Aware Networks
The Next-Generation WAN/MAN
Muhammad Afaq Khan, CCIE® No. 9070
A thorough introduction to the ASR 1000 series router
Building Service-Aware Networks is the insider’s guide to the next-generation Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000. Authored by a leading Cisco® expert, this book offers practical, hands-on coverage for the entire system lifecycle, including planning, setup and configuration, migration, and day-to-day management.
Muhammad Afaq Khan systematically introduces the ASR 1000’s evolved architecture, showing how the ASR 1000 can deliver major performance and availability improvements in tomorrow’s complex, collaborative, mobile, and converged network environments. Then, to help you plan your network deployments more effectively, the author walks you through realistic deploy-ment scenarios for IP routing, IP services, WAN optimization services, security services, and unified communications. He presents a wide variety of realistic, easy-to-adapt configuration examples for enterprise and provider inetworks, including everything from command-line interface (CLI) snippets to best practices for troubleshooting.
- Understand tomorrow’s enterprise business requirements, the demand they create for routing infrastructure, and how the ASR 1000 meets them
- Leverage the ASR 1000’s revolutionary system architecture to dramatically improve performance and availability
- Select and qualify an enterprise edge platform for next-generation WANs
- Understand ASR 1000 series architecture, hardware, software, packaging, licensing, and releases
- Perform initial ASR 1000 setup and configuration
- Implement In Service Software Upgrades (ISSU)
- Size routers for enterprise and carrier environments
- Consolidate multiple applications, platforms, and functions onto the ASR 1000
- Troubleshoot ASR 1000 common system error messages, step by step
This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press®, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.
Category: Networking
Covers: Routing and Switching
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I Overview of WAN Architectures
Chapter 1 Introduction to WAN Architectures
Introduction to WAN Solutions
Branch/Private WAN Aggregation Role
Basic Feature Requirements
Basic Service Level Agreement Requirements
Internet Edge Role
Basic Feature Requirements
Data Center Interconnect
Basic Feature Requirements
Large Branch WAN
Summary
Review Questions
Answers
Further Reading
Chapter 2 Next-Generation WAN Architectures
The Evolution of Next-Generation WAN Architectures
Business Drivers Behind WAN Evolution
Service Awareness and Integration
Infrastructure Consolidation
Segmentation/Virtualization
Security and Reliability
Bandwidth Commoditization
Carbon Footprint Reduction
Regulatory Compliance
Time to Adoption
Mean Time to Understanding and Troubleshooting
How the Changing Business Requirements Relate to Network Infrastructure
Summary
Review Questions
Answers
Further Reading
References
Chapter 3 Selecting and Qualifying Enterprise Edge Platforms for Next-Generation WANs
Essential Attributes of an Enterprise Edge Platform
Carrier-Class Routing
True Services Integration
Robust In-Built Quality of Service
Flexible System Architecture
Feature Velocity
Common Sharing and Sparing for Investment Protection
Interface Diversity and Density
Power and Space Friendly
Industry Standard Compliance
Qualifying the Enterprise WAN/MAN Edge Platform
Anatomy of a Test Plan
Test Scope and Objective
Test Setup and Topology
Test Resources
Test Approach and Methodology
Test Entry and Exit Criteria
Test Schedule
Test Results Reporting
Test Case Details
Summary
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