Cisco Networking Simplified (2nd Edition)

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

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Book

By Paul Morgan "English Paul" - January 15, 2009

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

By Julius J. Peterson - October 25, 2009

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.

Slightly above the level of the "For Dummies", however there is not much for smarties

By Charles Ashbacher - July 15, 2008

The best way to describe this book is that it is above the "For Dummies" level, yet there is not all that much for smarties. On the plus side, it is nearly a complete overview of networking, colored diagrams and photos are used to make the major points. It starts with the fundamentals of computer communication and goes through virtualized networks. This would certainly make it valuable as a primer for a manager who needs to know how networking can be used in their business, yet with no need to know technical details. Which, unfortunately, may make them just learned enough to be ignorant.
This is a very good book for networking novices who need an overview of the various aspects of networking. However, like most books for beginners, it will not take you any farther than that.

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