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Private cloud computing enables you to consolidate diverse
enterprise systems into one that is cloud-based and can be accessed
by end-users seamlessly, regardless of their location or changes in
overall demand. Expert authors Steve Smoot and Nam K. Tan distill
their years of networking experience to describe how to build
enterprise networks to create a private cloud. With their
techniques you'll create cost-saving designs and increase the
flexibility of your enterprise, while maintaining the security and
control of an internal network. "Private Cloud Computing "offers a
complete cloud architecture for enterprise networking by
synthesizing WAN optimization, next-generation data centers, and
virtualization in a network-friendly way, tying them together into
a complete solution that can be progressively migrated to as time
and resources permit.
The growth, scale, and prominence of video applications over the
years have placed emphasis on the most scalable and efficient way
to deliver multi-play content (voice, video and data) to the end
user. Multicast is the most effective and efficient carrier of
video applications from a network standpoint. Financial
organizations deploy large-scale multicast infrastructures to
enable trading and e-commerce. The introduction of 4G and beyond
makes this technology even more indispensible since mobile
operators need an efficient mechanism to deliver repetitive content
to many a handset, and multicast is the answer. Thisis the first
book to distill information on this topic from disparate sources.
It is written by one of the early implementers, andis the go-to
referencefor deploying the Next Generation model.Thisbook proves
areal benefit to networking professionals from service providers,
enterprises, the vendor community, and anyone elsewho wants to
understand this fast emerging and popular scheme of deployment from
a vendor-neutral standpoint. Provides the background necessary to understand current generation multi-play applications and their service requirements Includes practical tips on various migration options available for moving to the Next Generation framework from the legacy"
Networking technologies and concepts are often difficult to explain, even through careful description and well thought out examples. One method for making this information "stick" is to create an environment where networking professionals and students can visualize how networks work by utilizing a software tool that simulates the functions within a network. The tool provides a virtual environment for an assortment of desirable features such as modeling a network based on specified criteria and predicting its performance. "The Network Simulation Experiments Manual" takes this
instructional tool a step further and provides detailed experiments
on core networking topologies for use in this simulation
environment. Various scenarios are presented within each topology:
Review questions, suggested readings, a lab report, and exercises
accompanying each assignment. The manual also comes with directions
for downloading the free and easy-to-install OPNET IT Guru Academic
Edition software. This software provides a virtual environment for
modeling, analyzing, and predicting the performance of IT
infrastructures, including applications, servers, and networking
technologies. Prepared by Professor Emad Aboelela of the Taibah
University, Saudi Arabia, the experiments in the manual are closely
tied to the organization of "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach,
Fifth Edition" and, when used together, serve as a complete tool
for understanding how and why computer networks function as they
do.
Smart object technology, sometimes called the Internet of
Things, is having a profound impact on our day-to-day lives.
"Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP" is the first book that
takes a holistic approach to the revolutionary area of IP-based
smart objects. Smart objects are the intersection of networked
embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, ubiquitous and
pervasive computing, mobile telephony and telemetry, and mobile
computer networking. This book consists of three parts, Part I
focuses on the architecture of smart objects networking, Part II
covers the hardware, software, and protocols for smart objects, and
Part III provides case studies on how and where smart objects are
being used today and in the future. The book covers the
fundamentals of IP communication for smart objects, IPv6, and web
services, as well as several newly specified low-power IP standards
such as the IETF 6LoWPAN adaptation layer and the RPL routing
protocol. This book contains essential information not only for the
technical reader but also for policy makers and decision makers in
the area of smart objects both for private IP networks and the
Internet.
"Deploying QoS for IP Next Generation Networks: The Definitive
Guide" provides network architects and planners with insight into
the various aspects that drive QoS deployment for the various
network types. It serves as a single source of reference for
businesses that plan to deploy a QoS framework for voice, video,
mobility and data applications creating a converged infrastructure.
It further provides detailed design and implementation details for
various service deployments across the various Cisco platforms such
as the CRS-1, 12000, 7600 & 7200 series routers that are widely
deployed in most Carrier Networks.
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital
content (such as audio, video, and text files) as well as real-time
data (such as telephony traffic) with other users without depending
on a central server. Although originally popularized by unlicensed
online music services such as Napster, P2P networking has recently
emerged as a viable multimillion dollar business model for the
distribution of academic and clinical information,
telecommunications, and social networking. Written at an accessible
level for any reader familiar with fundamental Internet protocols,
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications explains the conceptual
operations and architecture underlying basic P2P systems using
well-known commercial systems as models. The book also delineates
the latest research directions, thereby providing not only a
sophisticated understanding of current systems, but also the means
to improve upon these systems with innovations that will better
performance, security, and flexibility. Peer-to-Peer Networking and
Applications is thus both a valuable starting point and an
important reference to those practioners employed by any of the 200
companies with approximately $400 million invested in this new and
lucrative technology.
The term Quality of Service, abbreviated QoS, refers to network
resource control mechanisms. Quality of Service is the ability to
provide different priority to different applications, users, or
data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a
data flow. This book brings all of the elements of network quality
of service (QoS) together in a single volume, saving the reader the
time and expense of making multiple purchases. It introduces
network QoS, explains the basics, describes the protocols, and
discusses advanced topics, by the best and brightest experts in the
field. It is a quick and efficient way to bring valuable content
together from leading experts in the field while creating a
one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive the
information they would otherwise need to round up from separate
sources.
This book focuses on broadband distribution and systems
architecture and concentrates on practical concepts that will allow
the reader to do their own design, improvement, and troubleshooting
work. The objective is to enhance the skill sets of a large
population that designs and builds broadband cable plants, as well
as those maintaining and troubleshooting it. A large cross-section
of technical personnel who need to learn these skills design,
maintain, and service HFC systems from signal creation through
transmission to reception and processing at the customer end point.
In addition, data/voice and video specialists need to master and
reference the basics of HFC design and distribution before
contending with the intricacies of their own unique services. This
book serves as an essential reference to all cable engineers-those
who specifically design and maintain the HFC distribution plant as
well as those primarily concerned with data/voice technology as
well as video technology. Included is an online component
consisting of spreadsheets that were used in developing the
material presented in the book.
Network management refers to the activities, methods, procedures,
and tools that pertain to the operation, administration,
maintenance, and provisioning of networked systems, which includes
controlling, planning, allocating, deploying, coordinating, and
monitoring the resources of a network. This book brings all of the
elements of network management together in a single volume, saving
the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It
introduces network management, explains the basics, describes the
protocols, and discusses advanced topics, by the best and brightest
experts in the field. It is a quick and efficient way to bring
valuable content together from leading experts in the field while
creating a one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive
the information they would otherwise need to round up from separate
sources.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of Internet QoS
theory, standards, vendor implementation and network deployment
from the practitioner's point of view, including extensive
discussion of related economic and regulatory issues. Written in a
technology-light way so that a variety of professionals and
researchers in the information and networking industries can easily
grasp the material. Includes case studies based on real-world
experiences from industry.
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Over the past decade, the world has witnessed an explosion in the
development and deployment of new wireless network technologies.
From cellular mobile telephony to the ubiquitous "WiFi" networks in
coffee-shops and airports, to the emerging WiMAX wireless broadband
access networks, the menu of wireless access systems has become so
comprehensive that wireline access to user devices may soon become
a relic of the past. Wireless Networking serves as a one-stop view
of cellular, WiFi, and WiMAX networks, as well as the emerging
wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Rather than provide
descriptive accounts of these technologies and standards, the book
emphasizes conceptual perspectives on the modeling, analysis,
design and optimization of such networks. Furthermore, the authors
present wireless networking within the unifying framework of
resource allocation, using simple abstractions of the underlying
physical wireless communication. In short, Wireless Networking is
an in-depth, exhaustive, and invaluable asset to anyone working in
this rapidly evolving field.
This book provides comprehensive coverage of mobile data networking
and mobile communications under a single cover for diverse
audiences including managers, practicing engineers, and students
who need to understand this industry. In the last two decades, many
books have been written on the subject of wireless communications
and networking. However, mobile data networking and mobile
communications were not fully addressed in a unified fashion. This
book fills that gap in the literature and is written to provide
essentials of wireless communications and wireless networking,
including Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN), Wireless Local
Area Networks (WLAN), and Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN).
Network routing can be broadly categorized into Internet routing,
PSTN routing, and telecommunication transport network routing. This
book systematically considers these routing paradigms, as well as
their interoperability. The authors discuss how algorithms,
protocols, analysis, and operational deployment impact these
approaches. A unique feature of the book is consideration of both
macro-state and micro-state in routing; that is, how routing is
accomplished at the level of networks and how routers or switches
are designed to enable efficient routing.
QoS, short for "quality of service," is one of the most important
goals a network designer or administrator will have. Ensuring that
the network runs at optimal precision with data remaining accurate,
traveling fast, and to the correct user are the main objectives of
QoS. The various media that fly across the network including voice,
video, and data have different idiosyncrasies that try the
dimensions of the network. This malleable network architecture
poses an always moving potential problem for the network
professional.
This book describes, analyzes, and recommends traffic engineering
(TE) and quality of service (QoS) optimization methods for
integrated voice/data dynamic routing networks. These functions
control a network's response to traffic demands and other stimuli,
such as link failures or node failures. TE and QoS optimization is
concerned with measurement, modeling, characterization, and control
of network traffic, and the application of techniques to achieve
specific performance objectives. The scope of the analysis and
recommendations include dimensioning, call/flow and connection
routing, QoS resource management, routing table management, dynamic
transport routing, and operational requirements. Case studies are
included which provide the reader with a concrete way into the
technical details and highlight why and how to use the techniques
described in the book.
IPv6 was introduced in 1994 and has been in development at the IETF for over 10 years. It has now reached the deployment stage. KAME, the de-facto open-source reference implementation of the IPv6 standards, played a significant role in the acceptance and the adoption of the IPv6 technology. The adoption of KAME by key companies in a wide spectrum of commercial products is a testimonial to the success of the KAME project, which concluded not long ago. This book is the first and the only one of its kind, which
reveals all of the details of the KAME IPv6 protocol stack,
explaining exactly what every line of code does and why it was
designed that way. Through the dissection of both the code and its
design, the authors illustrate how IPv6 and its related protocols
have been interpreted and implemented from the specifications. This
reference will demystify those ambiguous areas in the standards,
which are open to interpretation and problematic in deployment, and
presents solutions offered by KAME in dealing with these
implementation challenges.
As the Internet has grown, so have the challenges associated with
delivering static, streaming, and dynamic content to end-users.
This book is unique in that it addresses the topic of content
networking exclusively and comprehensively, tracing the evolution
from traditional web caching to today's open and vastly more
flexible architecture. With this evolutionary approach, the authors
emphasize the field's most persistent concepts, principles, and
mechanisms--the core information that will help you understand why
and how content delivery works today, and apply that knowledge in
the future.
Communication Networking is a comprehensive, effectively organized introduction to the realities of communication network engineering. Written for both the workplace and the classroom, this book lays the foundation and provides the answers required for building an efficient, state-of-the-art network-one that can expand to meet growing demand and evolve to capitalize on coming technological advances. It focuses on the three building blocks out of which a communication network is constructed: multiplexing, switching, and routing. The discussions are based on the viewpoint that communication networking is about efficient resource sharing. The progression is natural: the book begins with individual physical links and proceeds to their combination in a network. The approach is analytical: discussion is driven by mathematical analyses of and solutions to specific engineering problems. Fundamental concepts are explained in detail and design issues are placed in context through real world examples from current technologies. The text offers in-depth coverage of many current topics, including network calculus with deterministically-constrained traffic; congestion control for elastic traffic; packet switch queuing; switching architectures; virtual path routing; and routing for quality of service. It also includes more than 200 hands-on exercises and class-tested problems, dozens of schematic figures, a review of key mathematical concepts, and a glossary. This book will be of interest to networking professionals whose work is primarily architecture definition and implementation, i.e., network engineers and designers at telecom companies, industrial research labs, etc. It will also appeal to final year undergrad and first year graduate students in EE, CE, and CS programs.
The view presented in "The Internet and Its Protocols" is at once
broad and deep. It covers all the common protocols and how they
combine to create the Internet in its totality. More importantly,
it describes each one completely, examining the requirements it
addresses and the exact means by which it does its job. These
descriptions include message flows, full message formats, and
message exchanges for normal and error operation. They are
supported by numerous diagrams and tables.
Fully updated, revised, and expanded, this second edition of Modern
Cable Television Technology addresses the significant changes
undergone by cable since 1999--including, most notably, its
continued transformation from a system for delivery of television
to a scalable-bandwidth platform for a broad range of communication
services. It provides in-depth coverage of high speed data
transmission, home networking, IP-based voice, optical dense
wavelength division multiplexing, new video compression techniques,
integrated voice/video/data transport, and much more.
MPLS-enabled networks are enjoying tremendous growth, but practical
information on managing MPLS-enabled networks has remained hard to
find. Until now.
"IPv6 Socket API Extensions: Programmer's Guide" covers the IPv6
application programming intercfaces (API) extensions and
enhancements that have been made to the socket APIs. The book
begins with a brief overview of the API specifications along with
sample code usage. Then an explanation of the internal kernel
implementation that realizes the services offered by the API sets
is detailed. Also descriptions of several standard user libraries
that have been extended or created to support IPV6 are reviewed.
Includes various examples which illustrate how to write portable
applications that can run on either IPv4 or IPv6 networks. Succinct
treatment of everything you need know to get up and running with
IPv6 socket programming in one affordable volume.
The third edition of Optical Networks continues to be the authoritative source for information on optical networking technologies and techniques. Componentry and transmission are discussed in detail with emphasis on practical networking issues that affect organizations as they evaluate, deploy, or develop optical networks. New updates in this rapidly changing technology are introduced. These updates include sections on pluggable optical transceivers, ROADM (reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer), and electronic dispersion compensation. Current standards updates such as G.709 OTN, as well as, those for GPON, EPON, and BPON are featured. Expanded discussions on multimode fiber with additional sections on photonic crystal and plastic fibers, as well as expanded coverage of Ethernet and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). This book clearly explains all the hard-to-find information on
architecture, control and management. It serves as your guide at
every step of optical networking-- from planning to implementation
through ongoing maintenance. This book is your key to thoroughly
understanding practical optical networks. Filled with examples, figures, and problem sets to aid in development of dependable, speedy networks. Focuses on practical, networking-specific issues: everything you need to know to implement currently available optical solutions.
Mobile IPv6 has become the key enabling technology for mobile
data and multimedia services and devices worldwide (i.e., cellular
systems, VoIP handovers over LAN, multi-access network handovers,
location privacy, enterprise mobile networking, etc.). This book covers the IPv6 host mobility protocol known as
"mobile IPv6" and begins with a basic description of mobile IPv6
and then details protocol specifications and data structures as
well as actual implementation. A sample configuration for a real
Mobile IPv6 operation is provided at the end of the book. Source
code will be downloadable form a companion website. |
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