Network Design: Management and Technical Perspectives, 2nd Edition

Network Design, Second Edition: Management and Technical Perspectives is a broad survey of the major technologies and networking protocols and how they interrelate, integrate, and segregate functionality. It presents fundamental issues that managers and engineers should be focused upon when designing technology strategies and helps bridge the communication gap that often exists between managers and technical staff involved in the design and implementation of networks.

For managers, this book provides comprehensive technology overviews, case studies, and tools for decision making, requirements analysis, and technology evaluation. Engineers benefit from a review of the major technologies and protocols up and down the OSI protocol stack and how they relate to network design strategies. This volume provides insights into the mathematical underpinnings and theoretical basis for routing, network design, reliability, and performance analysis, and analyzes the commercial tools and approaches used in network design, planning, and management.

Features
• Provides case studies to illustrate system design and implementation concepts
• Offers an updated overview of the latest WAN (including Voice over IP), high-speed LAN, and MAN technologies and approaches
• Includes new chapters on client/server and distributed networking (including CORBA, COM+, J2EE, .NET, and Web Services), business continuity planning and design (including NAS and SAN technologies), automated LAN and WAN design, and network management tools and protocols
• Provides comprehensive tools for evaluating and ranking technology investments and adoption strategies
• Compares and contrasts industry approaches to network and Internet security