Top-Down Network Design

This is the perfect book for my project management position and dealing with engineers and network architect! The seller was top notch super fast ship much appreciated!!

If you are designing networks for your company or customers this book is an excellent resource. I highly recommend it and the Network Warrior as excellent and complementary resources in network design and configuration.

The book is sure a good buy, sumamrizes many important steps of network design approach, recaps on important technical topics in clear way, and provides a companion website with useful checklist. Some things I would have liked to see in the book but were not there: - migration/upgrade techniques: it might have been beneficial to lokk at situations where the basis is an existing network, though the approach may be similar - more examples of IP networks design: only 2 were reported to illustrate a campus and a enterprise edge design. To this regard I suggest the older but still good Large-scale IP networks, which include 3-4 large scale network designs. Overall anyway is definitely a very good book.

I was making the mistake of jumping straight into the fun of topology drawings and selecting devices, without even analyzing the business goals in-depth to begin with. "Top-Down Network Design" taught me why it is important to start the design process from layer 8 (user) down, while constantly reminding that design is an iterative process. Most importantly, the book includes what you need to know on how to effectively communicate your design to higher executives.

Great book to read slowly and take in all the experience and gottchas written down.

I was looking for practical examples, real life scenarios, and specific details (in scenario X you should use technology Y because ...). While I found some useful facts, tips, and one case study, most of the book just talks about different protocols and technologies, repeating numerous Cisco books without going into much details. I would say only 25% of material has real value for a network engineer.

great book, good price

already in love with the book after first chapter !!

A very will written book containing a step by step process for network design. I particularly liked the useful bullet point lists for ensuring you have successfully completed each stage of the process. Well structured and mainly aimed at communicating the design process, rather than excruciating technical details. I would recommend it for network managers, designers, senior engineers, consultants, and sales staff

Covers foundation and methodologies as expected. Still relevant; supplemented it by product details of the latest products on the market and through project work gets you there.

Bought this textbook as a mandatory reading for university class. While the class was boring, no issues with the book itself. :)

It's been a blessing to me. Well written book. Just the right book that I needed. Every Cisco book is like that.

Well written lots of useful information.