Data Network Design, 3/e (Paperback)

Your complete guide to a successful network design strategy

Build and design an end-to-end data network with help from this definitive guide. Covering all current key processes, technologies, and services--including IP and all its derivatives, ATM, Frame Relay, optical networking, SONET, voice over packet, multiplexing, X.25 and SMDS, and security design--this edition is updated with new and expanded coverage of optical switching and routing, MPLS, DSL, GbE, DWDM, PoS, wireless, and more. Youll gain insight into currently available services and find helpful comparisons with real-life examples and tips. Filled with illustrations and organized to walk you through the chronological order of the entire network design process, this authoritative resource combines the technologies and procedures of effective data network design in one volume.

• Learn about current voice and data network infrastructures and transmission technologies
  
• Gain a solid background on multiplexing, switching, and routing technologies and methods
  
• Find out about new technologies and services like DWDM, Voice over packet, GbE, and security infrastructures and hardware
  
• Discover residential and business access alternatives
  
• Work with common protocols and interfaces in the LAN and WAN environment
  
• Understand technology requirements from both a users and designers perspective
  
• Learn tried-and-tested design tips for each technology and service
  
• Tune, secure, and remotely manage your network
  

Important coverage includes:

• Enterprise and Service Provider Access
  
• How to write an RFI/RFP/RFQ
  
• Basic and advanced protocol layering concepts
  
• Dedicated, multiplexed, switched, and routed technologies
  
• Fiber, copper, and wireless access technologies
  
• SONET protocols, hardware, and services
  
• ATM, FR, and IP service architecture design and deployment
  
• Optical switching and routing with DWDM and PoS
  
• Traffic engineering of switched and packet technologies
  

Contents          

   Part I: Data Communications: Business Drivers and Networking Directions
    1: Data Communication: Past to Future
    2: Understanding the Standards and Their Makers
    3: Introduction to Transmission Technologies

   Part II: Physical Layer Technologies
    4: Multiplexing and Switching Technologies: An Overview
    5: Optical Networking
    6: Physical Layer Protocols and Access Technologies

   Part III: Protocols and Interfaces: Layer 2
    7: Common Protocols and Interfaces in the LAN Environment
    8: Frame Relay
    9: Common WAN Protocols: ATM

   Part IV: Protocols and Interfaces: Layer 3
    10: Common Protocols and Interfaces in the Upper Layers (TCP/IP)
    11: Mature Packet Switched Protocols

   Part V: Requirements, Planning, and Choosing Technology
    12: Requirements Definition
    13: Traffic Engineering and Capacity Planning
    14: Technology Comparisons

   Part VI: Choosing the Service Provider
    15: Choosing Service Providers

   Part VII: Network Design and Management
    16: Access Network Design
    17: Backbone Network Design
    18: Securing Your Network
    19: Documentation and Network Management

   Part VIII: Emerging Technologies
    20: What’s New on the Horizon

   Part IX: Appendixes
    A: Acronyms and Abbreviations
    B: Standards Sources
    C: IP Mask Reference Table
    D: IP Network: Addressing Reference
    E: Glossaryry