How to Use This Book

Let’s look at some specifics on how this book can help you. Every network deployment is different, like trees, like snowflakes, like people. You have to have an open mind, use open standards, and be as meticulous as a warrior. My fellow warriors will enjoy these chapters as pure networking travelogues: they might remind you of that build-out in the Midwest during the Great Blizzard, or those crazy people at University X. For others, who are aspiring to be warriors, or perhaps are part of the warriors’ sales and support teams, you need to know the process that happens onsite to make it all work. Upon reflection, however, I think that the people who actually spend the money and buy new networking equipment....