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Summary: Excellent insight into ISP's tech. and commercial mechanics
Review: Despite of its adventurous title a relevant and objective book. Within the 625 pages, no sentence is superfluous. You feel the author's intent to be clear and precise. He pinpoints the essential factors that determine the business of an ISP. Suspected to become the ISP's bible. Comparable to Comer's 'Internetworking with TCP/IP' or Tanenbaum's 'Computer Networks'.
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Summary: Gran recurso de investigación para redes ISP
Review: El libro muestra paso a paso las diferentes necesidades y actividades necesarias para diseñar una infraestructura ISP. Comenzando desde los aspectos teóricos de arquitectura, infraestrucutra, ruteo, administración de red, seguridad, etc; hasta los aspectos legales u organizacionales del ambiente Internet-ISP.
A mi criterio, temas que faltaron fueron: Primero modelos matemáticos y/o prácticos para el dimensionamiento de las troncales telefónicas (acceso dial up) y ancho de banda WAN . Segundo diferentes posibilidades y escenarios de interconexión internacional. Este último aspecto basado en ISPs fuera de los Estados Unidos.
Como conclusión es un libro ideal para estudiantes de ingenierÃa con bases intermedias de internetworking.
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Summary: Gran recurso de investigación para redes ISP
Review: El libro muestra paso a paso las diferentes necesidades y actividades necesarias para diseñar una infraestructura ISP. Comenzando desde los aspectos teóricos de arquitectura, infraestrucutra, ruteo, administración de red, seguridad, etc; hasta los aspectos legales u organizacionales del ambiente Internet-ISP.
A mi criterio, temas que faltaron fueron: Primero modelos matemáticos y/o prácticos para el dimensionamiento de las troncales telefónicas (acceso dial up) y ancho de banda WAN . Segundo diferentes posibilidades y escenarios de interconexión internacional. Este último aspecto basado en ISPs fuera de los Estados Unidos.
Como conclusión es un libro ideal para estudiantes de ingeniería con bases intermedias de internetworking.
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Summary: Longwinded
Review: I agree with the previous two reviews. This book is long winded and puts you to sleep. I cannot even sustain reading a paragraph without either 1)falling asleep, 2)losing concentration 3)more confusedThe author obviously knows what he is talking about but the way he has published his thoughts does not make for easy reading. Garbage in garbage out. Needs some serious editing. I am also reading "Remote Access Networks: PSTN, ISDN, ADSL,Internet and Wireless" (McGraw-Hill Computer Communications Series) by Chander Dhawan and I am enjoying this book by far.
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Summary: General book for non specialist
Review: I am non american, so that I can't evaluate the style of the author or his business capacity... Nevertheless, I think that this is one of the few books on this topic who presents a general view on ISP architecture and business. If someone knows an other book on this topic, I am interested in!!
It's not a book for specialist, you must not expect to configure cisco routers with it. But if you already know the basic of networks, it's a good introduction to ISP
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Summary: Too long winded. Not enough practical information.
Review: I had purchased this book hoping it would help me to run my ISP business, perhaps providing me with some advice and pointers. Instead, I received a long-winded book which spends more time covering the basics of how the Internet works, it's history, and tons of other garbage that I already knew. This book should have been titled "The Internet, it's history, it's protocols, and a few things to keep in mind if you want to be BORED with the Internet."
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Summary: Good, but I have some advice for the author
Review: I'm about half way through this book. I am also a computer book writer and I bought this because I wanted to get into the head of someone who set up and ran and ISP. The book has excellent content. But I have some advice for the author: Stop with these long-winded sentences. I know you are from a different country where writing in the "pompous" style of English is probably acceptable, but please just try to get to the point. These sentences that go on about the importance of this and that both before and after you say it are unnecessary. As we say here in America, "just give me the beef." Unfortunately, many readers feel they must read every word to get your point. But then after trudging through some of these heavily worded paragraphs, I am left wondering "what's the point?" The wording is so complex in some cases that you really can't skim through paragraphs to find the most important stuff. Here's an example from page 29 (I picked this at random and "voiced" it in): "This hybrid model of the core academic and research network with a central funding component providing free service and an associated fee-based commercially oriented resale operation was a common phase at this point in the evolutionary path. The resale operation was typically constructed so as to enable structural cross-subsidization of the cost of providing service to the core academic and research constituency. This cross-subsidization, together with access to increasing economies of scale in transmission cost, enable the network to undertake the seemingly impossible: to continue to grow at rates that were exponential, so that usage doubled in 8-to-12-month intervals, while exposing the academic and research institutional members of the network to no cost increase, or, at worst, linear cost increases." I think what the author meant to say was: "A centrally funded network that was able to resell its bandwidth and services helped the Internet grow. At the same time, the resale of bandwidth helped to subsidize other services." OK, maybe that is not the best rewrite. I know there are some important concepts buried in the original paragraph. How about putting those in a quick bullet list so we can get the point and move on? Like I said, this is an excellent book with great content. I'm writing this because I hope it helps the author with future books, which I am looking forward to reading.
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Summary: Solid coverage of ISP issues and services
Review: Knowing what the issues are is often harder than finding solutions to those issues. Geoff Huston presents many of the issues that are facing ISPs and those supplying ISP-like services. This is a book that is more about "what you should be doing", rather than "how you should be doing it". Both technical and business issues are covered, from both the perspective of US and non-US service providers. I buy and read around $5,000 worth of technical books each year - Geoff Huston's new book certainly makes the top 5% of these.
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Summary: An excellent mix of business and techno-savvy.
Review: Meaty, complete chapters. Good organization. Good review of the impacts of protocols, not just another alphabet soup review of TCP/IP. Good stuff - a real mix of business and technology. Nice sense of history, too - something usually lacking in books of this type. No ideological overtones, either - fair and to the point. Buy it, read it, learn.
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Summary: A call to reason
Review: Readers who found this book lucid and helpful must be part of the editorial staff or the publisher's company. After reading other's negative comments and passing them off as cursory and badly evaluated, I bought the book anyway. To my surprise, the negative comments were understated. The book was poorly written, has enormous gaps in the telecommunications area as related to the practical buildout of an ISP at both the hardware and business level. I returned the book after 10 days of thorough and painful reading. I cannot recommend someone spend money on this book. My apologies to the author but this is an honest response. The author could also use a few more years of grammar and composition before he publishes another book. I'm sure he knows his field but he simply cannot communicate it.
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