Cisco Wireless Network Design Guide: Foundation for Cisco...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 368 pages
• Published by: BookSurge Publishing May 1, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0973379839
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0973379839
• Book Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.8 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Reader Reviews
This book has some value but generally was a big disappointment. The title is completely misleading for starters. This is not a wireless LAN design book, but rather a generic network design reference that includes wireless. There is at best ~10-15% wireless content and even that is pretty thin and full of errors. Discussion of wireless security is nonexistent and references WEP and dynamic WEP, more than WPA2/CCMP. A more appropriate title would be 'Cisco Network assessment and design methodology', or Cisco Network Design Guide'. Well I have those books and they are way better than this. The authoring and content is fair at best. Numerous redundant statements, redundant and lame illustrations (the same illustration of access points connected to an Ethernet switch in a hub and spoke configuration is used like twenty times, telling you nothing) and numerous technical errors. It is effectively little more than a series of checklist items and primitive explanations on what data to collect and why and how to analyze it, including wireless. It was just tedious to read this. Useful for a soup to nuts enterprise assessment project (just the kind of thing Cisco SEs do so they can find all the areas where they can sell you more gear), but again, there are better books than this. It does contain lots of tables, which are useful examples of spreadsheets you should create during the data collection and design documentation process to keep track of network details like what VLANs and subnets are allocated to which branch offices. Overall however, while this has 'Cisco' in the title, it is absolutely not up to the quality of Cisco Press books. It smells like someone just threw together a bunch of Cisco SE procedures together and called it a book. Note that this is not a Cisco press book. I'd only recommend this to someone with a few years of networking experience who has a working vocabulary (vlans, DHCP, access control lists, etc.) and wants a a big picture checklist of all the areas to investigate when performing an enterprise network assessment. Don't expect to learn much about wireless networking here. Look at other Cisco books or the CWNA series instead. Comment | | (Report this)