Top-Down Network Design

Learn about the first step of network design: analyzing your customer or company's business goals.

Priscilla Oppenheimer
Published: 23 May 2002

Top-Down Network Design is a practical and comprehensive guide to designing enterprise networks that are reliable,...

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secure, and manageable, teaching a systematic method for network design that can be applied to campus LANs, remote-access networks, WAN links, and large-scale internetworks. In chapter 1, author Priscilla Oppenheimer covers the first step of design: analyzing your customer or company's business goals.

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