Administering Cisco QoS for IP Networks discusses IP
Quality of Service (QoS) and how it applies to Enterprise
and Internet Service Provider (ISP) environments. It
reviews routing protocols and quality of service mechanisms
available today on Cisco network devices and it will
provide you with examples and exercises for a hands-on
experience designed to give you the background to implement
these capabilities in your network.
The business impact of QoS on major enterprises today
ensures the delivery of the right information necessary to
the bottom-line success of the business. QoS expedites the
handling of mission-critical applications, while sharing
network resources with non-critical applications. Today,
with Cisco products, QoS has finally found its time by
effectively providing algorithms to ensure delivery that
was once only promised.
Over the past couple of years, the number of methods or
protocols for setting quality of service (QoS) in network
equipment has increased dramatically. Advanced queuing
algorithms, traffic shaping, and access-list filtering,
have made the process of choosing a QoS strategy a much
more daunting task. All networks can take advantage of
aspects of QoS for optimum efficiency, whether the network
is for a small corporation, an enterprise, or an ISP.
- Managing Cisco Network Security
As more and more companies take their critical
applications and business functions online, they need to
know that their networks, systems, and data are protected.
Cisco Systems, the world's largest internetworking vendor,
has developed hardware and software solutions that provide
security by tracking access by customers and business
partners and prohibiting access by unauthorized outsiders.
Configuring Cisco IP Security covers the full range of
Cisco Secure hardware and software solutions, including PIX
Firewall, Intrusion Detection System, and Authentication
Agent, to help engineers and administrators protect their
ISPs, corporate networks, and e-commerce sites. The book's
user-friendly format includes a technology overview, a
"fast-track" summary, easy-to-read chapters written by
subject-matter experts, and dozens of helpful
illustrations, screen shots, and captions.
AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video, and Integrated
Data) is a network architecture made up of hardware and
software that transmits a company's data such as e-mail,
web traffic, file transfers, voice traffic, and video
traffic over the same physical computer network. Imagine
taking the three networks your company currently has and
combining them into a single or converged infrastructure?
Wouldn't that make managing, budgeting, and staffing
easier? Configuring Cisco AVVID will introduce you to the
new AVVID components from Cisco that can save hard dollars
and increase a company's overall performance.
Configuring Cisco AVVID will give IT professionals,
ISPs, and engineers the first insight into how each piece
of hardware and each software application function
independently, as well as how they interoperate, forming a
completely converged solution. It covers the hardware and
software components of AVVID, including Cisco Router, Cisco
Catalyst Switch, Cisco IP Telephones, Cisco Call Manager
Server (MCS 7800), Analog and Digital Gateways, Voice
Trunks, Voice Modules, Call Manager 3.0, Soft Phone, Web
Attendant, and Active Voice. ?