Building High-Speed Networks

Rating:
Summary: Will NOT show you how to build a network.
Review: This book falls far short of the claim of the title. It never shows you how to design a high- speed network. A better title would have been, "A Newbies Intro to basic network concepts." The first six chapters can be skipped by anyone who has worked with networked systems for six months or more. The author chose to pad these chapters with discussions of applications (e-mail, multimedia), server farms, and very basic planning sheets. Chapter seven finally gets to FDDI ! But then the book proceeds to give short chaptered descriptions of Gigabit ethernet, isolan, 100vgAnylan (Is anyone using this? ), and ATM. Chapters 18-20 (less than 100 pages of 364 total) claim to discuss the actual network construction but, are no more than a glorified networking encyclopedia. I can not believe Osbourne placed a Network Professional's Library stamp on this book ! For the real information you seek choose, Shaugnessy's "Cisco , A Beginner's Guide," and Oppenheimer's, "Top-Down Network Design."

Rating:
Summary: Will NOT show you how to build a network.
Review: This book falls far short of the claim of the title. It never shows you how to design a high- speed network. A better title would have been, "A Newbies Intro to basic network concepts." The first six chapters can be skipped by anyone who has worked with networked systems for six months or more. The author chose to pad these chapters with discussions of applications (e-mail, multimedia), server farms, and very basic planning sheets. Chapter seven finally gets to FDDI ! But then the book proceeds to give short chaptered descriptions of Gigabit ethernet, isolan, 100vgAnylan (Is anyone using this? ), and ATM. Chapters 18-20 (less than 100 pages of 364 total) claim to discuss the actual network construction but, are no more than a glorified networking encyclopedia. I can not believe Osbourne placed a Network Professional's Library stamp on this book ! For the real information you seek choose, Shaugnessy's "Cisco , A Beginner's Guide," and Oppenheimer's, "Top-Down Network Design."