Cisco Networking Simplified (2nd Edition) (Networking...

Cisco Networking Simplified
Second Edition

• Master today’s world of Cisco networking with this book’s completely updated, fully illustrated visual approach
• Easy enough for novices, substantive enough for networking professionals
• Covers the latest networking topics—from 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 today’s easiest, most visual guide to Cisco® networking. Even if you’ve 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 today’s 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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A visual explanation of networking technologies

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


* How the Internet works
* How e-mail, e-learning, and telephony work on the Internet
* What makes a network safe
* How traffic gets from here to there
* Disaster recovery and other ways to keep a network running
* How businesses share data
* See the world of Cisco networking with this illustrated guide's visual approach to learning
* Useful for both novices and networking professionals
* Covers a broad variety of internetworking topics-from e-mail to VPNs


At last-an illustrated guide to the world of Cisco networking. Cisco Networking Simplified breaks down the complicated world of internetworking into easy-to-understand parts. Learn quickly and easily the basics of a variety of topics, such as security, IP telephony, and quality of service, from the full-color diagrams and clear explanations found in Cisco Networking Simplified.

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, the only authorized publisher for Cisco Systems. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.