Description: Poor internetwork designs can cost their companies millions of dollars a year directly -- and impact competitiveness enterprise-wide. But few professionals have the broad interdisciplinary skills needed to design and optimize wide area internetworks. Now, leading network infrastructure authority J. Scott Marcus translates the hard-won wisdom of top internetwork designers into a coherent process any networking professional can use. Discover how to develop a holistic, integrated view of WANs and internetworks that encompasses technology, applications, operations, cost, performance, security, and long-term business goals. Learn how to define requirements; then choose the best topologies, data link technologies and carrier options for any internetwork. Then, discover exactly how to iterate a design to squeeze out hidden costs and inefficiencies. The book contains insightful coverage of ISDN, frame relay, ATM, SMDS, SONET, IP, xDSL, and VPNs; Web-based Excel worksheets for pricing networks, and much more. Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks: A Practical Guide is a breakthrough resource for every WAN and internetwork designer.

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