| The definitive guide to optimizing large-scale IP routing
operation and managing network growth
Build scalability into new designs and optimize existing,
overly complex networks with design best practices presented in
this book
Learn from real-world case studies leveraging the authors' vast
design and support experience
Understand the latest routing protocol enhancements and design
practices for cutting-edge technologies such as high availability,
security, MPLS, and VPNsOptimal 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 uses an easy-to-read approach accessible
to novice network designers while presenting invaluable,
hard-to-find insight that will appeal to more advanced-level
professionals. 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 section provides techniques to work around real-world
problems. A checklist of questions and design goals provides a
useful tool for network design evaluation. Part two details
specifics on deploying interior gateway protocols, including EIGRP,
OSPF, and IS-IS, in real-world networks. Updated sections include
coverage of new features and deployment techniques and more. A
chapter on BGP covers using BGP in large-scale networks and to
connect to outside domains, such as the Internet. Part three starts
with a discussion of designing highly available networks from a
routing perspective, continues with coverage of routing security,
and concludes with a chapter on MPLS. Appendices include updated
information on the fundamentals of OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, and BGP. |
