This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

Cisco Networking Simplified
Second Edition

• Master today’s world of Cisco networking with this book’s completely updated, fully illustrated visual approach

• Easy enough for novices, substantive enough for networking professionals

• Covers the latest networking topics—from network architecture to secure wireless, unified communications to telepresence

In Full Color

Jim Doherty • Neil Anderson • Paul Della Maggiora

Now 100 percent updated for the latest technologies, this is today’s easiest, most visual guide to Cisco® networking. Even if you’ve never set up or managed a network, Cisco Networking Simplified, Second Edition, helps you quickly master the concepts you need to understand. Its full-color diagrams and clear explanations give you the big picture: how each important networking technology works, what it can do for you, and how they all fit together. The authors illuminate networking from the smallest LANs to the largest enterprise infrastructures, offering practical introductions to key issues ranging from security to availability, mobility to virtualization.

What you always wanted to know about networking but were afraid to ask!

• How networks and the Internet work

• How to build coherent, cost-effective network infrastructures

• How to design networks for maximum reliability and availability

• What you need to know about data center and application networking

• How to secure networks against today’s threats and attacks

• How to take advantage of the latest mobility technologies

• How virtualizing networks can help businesses leverage their network investments even further

• How to combine messaging, calendaring, telephony, audio, video, and web conferencing into a unified communications architecture

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press®, the only authorized publisher for Cisco®.

Category: Cisco

Covers: General Networking

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 19 Ratings

Excellent Book - 2009-01-16
Reviewer Rating:
Very good book, well written and easy to understand. Covers all aspects of networking and VoIP at a high level (which is exactly what the authors state is their intent). Each chapter could be the subject of a number of books. This is a good all around primer which will give you enough knowledge to be able to get the most from more in-depth books. I recommend this book for anyone intersted in an overview of the subject matter.

Cisco Networking Simplified - 2009-10-25
Reviewer Rating:
I highly recommend this book to anyone desiring to learn the basics about Cisco networking. This book has great visual illustration and easy to understand wording that a person can learn the terminologies and their functions. You will learn the OSI model and the way each layer communicate with each other. The technical aspect of the book is a guideline to understanding networking infrastructure, network design, securing a network and many more function such as VPN.

Good Networking Book - 2009-05-29
Reviewer Rating:
I purchased this book to learn more about networking, and you will learn
quite alot from it. Every subject is covered, from the beginning of the
Internet to present-day systems, including legacy devices and topologies.
If you are looking for a book to show you how to network YOUR setup, this
can help, but is not the focus and subject of this book.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants a good understanding of network-
ing principles, methodologies, and implementation from a LAN to WAN scale.
This book does require some intelligence regarding the subjects, and will
be useful for an intermediate to advanced user.

a must read for network newbies - 2009-03-20
Reviewer Rating:
I'm a network professional who bought the book to test my knowledge on the subject and to my surprise learned a few things.This book is a must read for newbies who wants to understand how a network works.

The best book to study network and network related basics - 2008-09-01
Reviewer Rating:
The best book I've ever seen to study network and network related basics. I can recommend it for people without any network know-how and it's also a great reference book for IT and network experts to refresh their knowledge.

A lot of high quality illustrations supporting the easy to read text.

Marco

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