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The practical guide to building resilient and highly available IP networks. Building Resilient IP Networks explores technologies that contribute to the uptime of networks. You gain a clear understanding of how to achieve network availability through the use of tools, design strategy, and Cisco IOS Software.

Campus Network Design Fundamentals is an all-in-one guide to modern routed and switched campus network design . Key topics covered throughout the book include switching, IP routing, QoS, security, WLANs, voice transport, content networking, network management, IPv6, IP multicast, and storage networking. Sample network designs for headquarters, branch offices, and home office/remote users help illustrate the application of enabling technologies.

Voice over IP First-Step is anyone's first step into the world of IP telephony. No prior experience with VoIP technology is required, and the book's conversational style and use of case studies, tips, notes, alerts, chapter objectives, chapter summaries, and other elements will help readers understand and retain basic VoIP concepts and theories.

An essential guide to IPv6 concepts, service implementation, and interoperability in existing IPv4 environments. Deploying IPv6 Networks goes beyond addressing the basics of IPv6, yet remains accessible to readers unfamiliar with the protocol. The book details the most important changes in the foundation of IP, including addressing architecture, packet format and Layer 2-Layer 3 address resolution. With this book in hand, readers will understand IPv6 and know how to plan, design, and deploy IPv6 services.

Selecting MPLS VPN Services provides an objective framework for evaluating competing IP/MPLS service offerings and covers the business rationale for implementing IP/MPLS VPNs. This book will allow enterprise network engineers the ability to analyze migration options, anticipate migration issues, and properly deploy IP/MPLS VPNs. The detailed configuration examples illustrate effective deployment, while case studies present available migration options and walk engineers through selecting the best option for the example network.

Intrusion Prevention Fundamentals offers an introduction and in-depth overview of Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) technology. Using real-world scenarios and fictitious case-studies, this book walks users through the lifecycle of an IPS project from needs definition to deployment considerations. This book will be an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to know how the technology works, what problems it can or cannot solve, how it is deployed, and where it fits in the larger security marketplace.

Next-Generation Network Services presents an overview of converged IP network services, focusing on opportunities for service differentiation and introducing current service-oriented technology. These technologies allow service providers and large enterprises to build and operate networks that provide local, long-haul, mobile, and global data and Internet services to businesses and consumers.

The hands-on guide to practical, real-world MPLS configuration using Cisco IOS® software, MPLS Configuration on Cisco IOS Software is a complete configuration manual for MPLS, MPLS VPNs, MPLS TE, QoS, Any Transport over MPLS (AToM), and VPLS. You’ll move quickly from a brief overview of MPLS technology and basic MPLS configuration on Cisco routers to more advanced topics.

Your quick-and-easy reference to 802.11 WLAN components and protocols. Cisco 802.11 Wireless Networking Quick Reference is a time-saving tool for the office or in the field, when you need a memory-refresher or a quick-tip guide on maximizing your wireless network.

A complete revision of the best-selling first edition with more than 200 new pages, this book includes protocol changes and Cisco features that enhance routing integrity, secure routers from attacks initiated through routing protocols, and provide greater control over the propagation of routing information for all IP interior routing protocols.

The all-in-one practical guide to supporting Cisco networks using freeware tools, the Network Administrators Survival Guide offers tips for choosing and using freeware and open-source tools. This reference book will help you learn to effectively deal with network security issues. Each chapter is based on a network administration function and provides an overview of the topic, followed by the methodology to accomplish that function. This includes the tools available, as well as their installation, configuration, and usage methods.

Exposes the inner workings of Cisco CallManager to help you maximize your Cisco IP Communications solution. The second edition of this book has been fully revised and covers software releases through release 4.1. It is the only available book and documentation that describes the architectural layers of CallManager and their functionality.

All data centers are unique, but they all share the same mission: to protect your company’s valuable information. Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business answers your individual questions in one flexible step-by-step reference guide. If you need a starting point for designing your first data center, regardless of size; if you need to prepare yourself with comprehensive strategies to retrofit or improve an existing one; or if you need proven methods to manage a data center for maximum productivity—this book is your readily accessible, comprehensive resource for answers and insights.

Configuring CallManager and Unity: A Step-by-Step Guide includes step-by-step guides that system administrators and other networking professionals can use in the field. You will find information that will assist in the configuration of CallManager-related tasks, such as device configuration, gateway implementation, and dial-plan creation to name a few. You will also find Unity-related configuration tasks, ranging from the basics, such as holiday and schedule configuration, to more involved tasks, such as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) networking implementation.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Handbook is a guide for the most commonly implemented features of the popular Cisco Systems® firewall security solutions. This is the first book to cover the revolutionary Cisco ASA and PIX® version 7 security appliances. This book will help you quickly and easily configure, integrate, and manage the entire suite of Cisco® firewall products, including Cisco ASA, PIX version 7 and 6.3, the Cisco IOS router firewall, and the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM).

Optimal Routing Design provides the tools and techniques, learned through years of experience with network design and deployment, to build a large-scale or scalable IP-routed network. The book takes an easy-to-read approach that is accessible to novice network designers while presenting invaluable, hard-to-find insight that appeals to more advanced-level professionals as well.

Beginning with an overview of design fundamentals, the authors discuss the tradeoffs between various competing points of network design, the concepts of hierarchical network design, redistribution, and addressing and summarization. This first part provides specific techniques, usable in all routing protocols, to work around real-world problems. The next part of the book details specific information on deploying each interior gateway protocol (IGP)–including EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS–in real-world network environments. Part III covers advanced topics in network design, including border gateway protocol (BGP), high-availability, routing protocol security, and virtual private networks (VPN). Appendixes cover the fundamentals of each routing protocol discussed in the book; include a checklist of questions and design goals that provides network engineers with a useful tool when evaluating a network design; and compare routing protocols strengths and weaknesses to help you decide when to choose one protocol over another or when to switch between protocols.

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is becoming a widely deployed technology, specifically for providing virtual private network (VPN) services. MPLS VPN Security is the first book to address the security features of MPLS VPN networks and to show you how to harden and securely operate an MPLS network. Drawing upon the authors’ considerable experience in attack mitigation and infrastructure security, MPLS VPN Security is a practical guide to understanding how to effectively secure communications in an MPLS environment.

Building a network doesn't have to be all work and no play—it can actually be fun! Home Networking Simplified is an illustrated home-networking book for everyone from Grandma Mary to your tech-savvy teenage neighbor. Home Networking Simplified gives you the most basic need-to-know info and then teaches you how to get the most out of your home network. Debugged by The Geek Squad.

Prevent security breaches by protecting endpoint systems with Cisco Security Agent, the Cisco host Intrusion Prevention System. You'll learn the basics of endpoint security and why it is so important in today's security landscape, and learn how to protect endpoint systems from hackers, viruses, and worms with host intrusion prevention security.

Protect critical data and maintain uptime with Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager and Cisco Security Agent. This easy-to-use guide helps you craft and deploy a defense-in-depth solution featuring the newly released Cisco® ASA and PIX® version 7 as well as Cisco Security Agent host intrusion prevention software. Informative, real-time, and historical reports provide critical insight into usage trends, performance baselines, and security events.

Mobile IP Technology and Applications is the first book to address the practical application of Mobile IP in real-world environments. Cisco IOS Mobile IP configuration, troubleshooting, and management are covered in depth and supported by real-world examples. Mobility solutions addressed in the book include enterprise campus wireless LAN and metropolitan mobility for both individual devices and whole networks. Each example is designed to teach configuration, management, and troubleshooting.

Cisco IP Communications Express: CallManager Express with Cisco Unity Express delivers a comprehensive suite of telephony features, security, and applications. Cisco IP Communications Express: CallManager Express with Cisco Unity Express with Cisco Unity Express provides the detailed information needed to maximize the use of this powerful product suite. Learn how Cisco IPC Express and its applications can become a business solution for your office or enterprise. The experts from Cisco Systems provide in-depth design guidance, full configurations, and valuable examples to serve as blueprints.

IPSec VPN Design is the first book to present a detailed examination of the design aspects of IPSec protocols that enable secure VPN communication. Divided into three parts, the book provides a solid understanding of design and architectural issues of large-scale, secure VPN solutions. Part I includes a comprehensive introduction to the general architecture of IPSec, including its protocols and Cisco IOS® IPSec implementation details. Part II examines IPSec VPN design principles covering hub-and-spoke, full-mesh, and fault-tolerant designs. This part of the book also covers dynamic configuration models used to simplify IPSec VPN designs. Part III addresses design issues in adding services to an IPSec VPN such as voice and multicast. This part of the book also shows you how to effectively integrate IPSec VPNs with MPLS VPNs.

IPSec VPN Design provides you with the field-tested design and configuration advice to help you deploy an effective and secure VPN solution in any environment.

Definitive MPLS Network Designs provides examples of how to combine key technologies at the heart of IP/MPLS networks. Techniques are presented through a set of comprehensive design studies. Each design study is based on characteristics and objectives common to a given profile of network operators having deployed MPLS and discusses all the corresponding design aspects.