Cisco Networking Simplified 2nd Edition

Cisco Networking Simplified
Second Edition

 

• Master todays world of Cisco networking with this books completely updated, fully illustrated visual approach
• Easy enough for novices, substantive enough for networking professionals
• Covers the latest networking topicsfrom network architecture to secure wireless, unified communications to telepresence

 

In Full Color

 

Jim Doherty  Neil Anderson  Paul Della Maggiora

 

Now 100 percent updated for the latest technologies, this is todays easiest, most visual guide to Cisco networking. Even if youve never set up or managed a network, Cisco Networking Simplified, Second Edition, helps you quickly master the concepts you need to understand. Its full-color diagrams and clear explanations give you the big picture: how each important networking technology works, what it can do for you, and how they all fit together. The authors illuminate networking from the smallest LANs to the largest enterprise infrastructures, offering practical introductions to key issues ranging from security to availability, mobility to virtualization.

 

What you always wanted to know about networking but were afraid to ask!

• How networks and the Internet work
• How to build coherent, cost-effective network infrastructures
• How to design networks for maximum reliability and availability
• What you need to know about data center and application networking
• How to secure networks against todays threats and attacks
• How to take advantage of the latest mobility technologies
• How virtualizing networks can help businesses leverage their network investments even further
• How to combine messaging, calendaring, telephony, audio, video, and web conferencing into a unified communications architecture

 

 

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, the only authorized publisher for Cisco.

 

Category: Cisco

Covers: General Networking

 

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Jim Doherty is the Chief Marketing Officer at CipherOptics. Before joining the CipherOptics team, he held leadership positions with Symbol Technologies and Cisco Systems. He has more than 16 years of technical marketing and engineering experience and has led various marketing campaigns for IP telephony, routing and switching solutions, and network security solutions. He is the coauthor of the Networking Simplifiedseries, published by Cisco Press. He is a former Marine Corps sergeant. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Duke University. Neil Anderson is the Senior Manager of Technology Systems Engineering with Cisco Systems. He has more than 20 years of broad engineering experience, including public telephone systems, mobile phone systems, Internet, and home networking. At Cisco, his focus is on business networks in the areas of network architecture, wireless, security, unified communications, and emerging technologies. He is the coauthor of the Networking Simplified series, published by Cisco Press. He holds a B.S. in computer science.

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Introduction

Part I: Networking Fundamentals

How Computers Communicate

    The OSI Model

    Open Versus Proprietary Systems

    Seven Layers

    At-a-Glance: OSI Model

    Internet Infrastructure: How It All Connects

TCP/IP and IP Addressing

    Computers Speaking the Same Language

    What Is an Address?

    Dynamically Allocated IP Addresses

    Domain Names and Relationship to IP Addresses

    Matching Domain Names to IP Addresses

    At-a-Glance: TCP/IP

    At-a-Glance: IP Addressing

    At-a-Glance: IPv6

    NAT and PAT

Internet Applications

    The Internet and Its Applications

    E-Mail

    Web Browsing

    E-Mail

    Peer-to-Peer Sharing

 

Part II: Networking Infrastructure

Ethernet

    History of Ethernet

    What Is Ethernet?

    Evolution of Ethernet

    At-a-Glance: Ethernet

    Reducing Collisions on Ethernet

LAN Switching

    Fast Computers Need Faster Networks

    Switching Basics: Its a Bridge

    Switching Ethernets

    Switches Take Over the World

    At-a-Glance: Switching

Spanning Tree

    Network Loops

    Sometimes, the Earth Is Flat

    Preventing Network Loops

    Spanning-Tree Fundamentals

    At-a-Glance: Spanning Tree

Routing

    Routers

    Routers Talk Among Themselves to Find Routes

    Routers Route Packets

    Routers Bridge and Switches Route

    At-a-Glance: Routing

    Routing and Switching

 

Part III: Network Design

Campus Networks and Hierarchical Design

    Building Networks for Ease of Use

    At-a-Glance: Hierarchical Campus Design

WAN Network Design

    Moving Traffic Across the Street and the World

    WAN Services

    Integrated Services Digital Network

    Frame Relay

    ATM

    MPLS

    Broadband

    Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

    WAN Devices

   ...

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