Top-Down Network Design

Author: Priscilla Oppenheimer
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ISBN: 1578700698
Publisher: Cisco Press (15 August, 1999)
Sales Rank: 56,587
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 5 out of 5
The definitive Netword Design guide and CCDA Prep!
This is the definitive guide to Network Design, and great prep material for the CCDA test. Long after getting a 900+ score on the Designing Cisco Networks (CCDA) test, I continue to treasure this book and come back to it often for reference.

You will find this book to be right on the mark, no extra/unnecessary information, lecturing, or philosophies, no unnecessary technical mumbo jumbo. Couldn't make this topic any simpler & better organized than what Priscilla has done in this book.

One of those books you don't miss having a second edition of - it's as good a read (and applicable too!) today as it was years ago.

Bharat Suneja
MCT

Rating: 5 out of 5
Written by a Real Network Architect
As an avid tech reader, I found "Top-Down Network Design" to be very refreshing. The voice always remains that of the author - an experienced network architect and instructor. Having read a lot of books on design, I can always tell when the marketing mafia are standing behind the author ensuring that a quota of product plugs is met. Not at all so with this book. Although a Cisco Press title, you could apply the Top-down approach to any network design project. Overall, this is my favorite Cisco Press book (and I have read plenty).

Disclaimer: I don't "know" Pricilla but we both participate in a common forum dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge (not allowed to include URLs according to the policy of this page so I can't be more specific).

Rating: 5 out of 5
excellent methodology - must read
ms oppenheimer has written a book that every networker should
read. she describes a concise method for analyzing and designing
internetworks.
admittedly she follows many of the tenets that comprise version 1
of the ccda (i haven't taken/looked at the newer version of the
test) - but there is a reason that cisco has helped to design
and support some of the largest and most complex networks in the
world...they follow a consistent, easily replicated, and scalable
model for networking.

network design is similar to putting a puzzle together - this
book simplifies that puzzle. if you are designing a network,
please read this. if you are managing someone who is designing
a network, please read this.



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