Art of Network Architecture, The: Business-Driven Design (Networking Technology)

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The Art of Network Architecture Business-Driven Design The business-centered, business-driven guide to architecting and evolving networks The Art of Network Architecture is the first book that places business needs and capabilities at the center of the process of architecting and evolving networks. Two leading enterprise network architects help you craft solutions that are fully aligned with business strategy, smoothly accommodate change, and maximize future flexibility. Russ White and Denise Donohue guide network designers in asking and answering the crucial questions that lead to elegant, high-value solutions. Carefully blending business and technical concerns, they show how to optimize all network interactions involving flow, time, and people. The authors review important links between business requirements and network design, helping you capture the information you need to design effectively. They introduce today’s most useful models and frameworks, fully addressing modularity, resilience, security, and management. Next, they drill down into network structure and topology, covering virtualization, overlays, modern routing choices, and highly complex network environments. In the final section, the authors integrate all these ideas to consider four realistic design challenges: user mobility, cloud services, Software Defined Networking (SDN), and today’s radically new data center environments. • Understand how your choices of technologies and design paradigms will impact your business • Customize designs to improve workflows, support BYOD, and ensure business continuity • Use modularity, simplicity, and network management to prepare for rapid change • Build resilience by addressing human factors and redundancy • Design for security, hardening networks without making them brittle • Minimize network management pain, and maximize gain • Compare topologies and their tradeoffs • Consider the implications of network virtualization, and walk through an MPLS-based L3VPN example • Choose routing protocols in the context of business and IT requirements • Maximize mobility via ILNP, LISP, Mobile IP, host routing, MANET, and/or DDNS • Learn about the challenges of removing and changing services hosted in cloud environments • Understand the opportunities and risks presented by SDNs • Effectively design data center control planes and topologies Review: Probably the only helpful networking book I've run across in a couple years - Summary: This book won't help someone in operations, and might help someone doing projects. It will definitely help the network architect. I've found that I almost never need to buy and read a full-fledged book any more since I can find blog posts, how-to's, vendor documentation, and forum banter, on practically every topic around. The only reason I can think of to buy a book on a technical subject is when you need a consistent voice providing context and a deeper dive on a spectrum of related concepts. If you want to know how EIGRP or IPSec works ... you don't need a book. But this book is aimed at people who already went through Jeff Doyle, Bassam Halabi, etcetera. People with years of experience in operations and then design, who now need to step up and look at the broader picture. Things like what, exactly, is a tunnel? Believe it or not this is a fruitful discussion and Russ cuts to the meat of it in a few pages. If it's your job to look at a multi-site network and figure out how to design optimum resilience, deterministic failover, etcetera, then this book is an awesome win. It covers a lot of things that no other book I have does. Keith Tokash, CCIE #21236 Review: Another excellent book for network designers - Another excellent book for network designers. Despite being a Cisco Press book, it is very much vendor neutral. The book talks less about validated architectures and more about thought processes and models, which is rare to find. The SDN section was of particular interest to me as it helped to eliminate the hype surrounding the topic and put into perspective the trade-offs that it brings.