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Wide Area Network Design
Concepts and Tools for Optimization
- 1st Edition - May 1, 1998
- Author: Robert Cahn
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 5 5 8 6 0 - 4 5 8 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 2 1 0 2 - 2
As the cost of building and upgrading complex, large-scale networks skyrockets, carefully crafted network designs become critical- a savings of as little as 5% in your network ca… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAs the cost of building and upgrading complex, large-scale networks skyrockets, carefully crafted network designs become critical- a savings of as little as 5% in your network can amount to tens of thousands of dollars per month. Wide Area Network Design: Concepts and Tools for Optimization provides the information you need to tackle the challenges of designing a network that meets your performance goals within the cost constraints of your organization. If you are considering public service alternatives such as frame relay, designing your own network with the tools provided in this book will empower you to estimate cost savings and evaluate bids from competing carriers.
Intended for network designers, planners, and architects, this book enables you to estimate traffic flows and requirements in your network and explains how to use various algorithms to design a network which must meets these requirements.
* Presents underlying design principles to help you understand emerging and future networking protocols and technologies* Provides cost and traffic generators for estimating these parameters in your network* Introduces the unique IncreMENTOR algorithm which can help avert disaster when the traffic flows in your network have changed
1 IntroductionWhat is Network DesignOverviewDesign AlternativesOrdering the DesignsChoosing the Final DesignDesigns which are LosersWhich is More Important, Performance or Cost?A Low Tech Solution to the Network Design ProblemSummaryExercises2 "Hello World" of Network DesignOverviewA Two Location ProblemThe Straight-Forward SolutionAdding PBXsReducing the Trunks at BregenThe Busy Hour ProfileThe Erlang CalcultaionCalculating the BlockingDesigning the Inter-site linkSimplifying the Traffic ProfileAnalysis of the Inter-site linkThe Erlang-B Function RecursionThe Final Voice DesignA Three-Location Data Network ProblemThe Queueing Theory Needed to Analyse Link DelaysDesigning the Data Net
- No. of pages: 464
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 1, 1998
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Hardback ISBN: 9781558604582
- eBook ISBN: 9780080521022
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Robert Cahn
Robert S. Cahn received his B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale University in 1970. From 1970 until 1982, he was a member of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Miami and of the Mathematics Department of Lehman College from 1983-1985. In 1986 he joined the IBM Communications Department working on network design algorithms and network design tools. He has also designed a number of very large, high-speed networks for both IBM and IBM customers. He is the author or over 20 research articles spanning his various interests. He is adjunct professor of Computer Science at Polytechnic University and regularly teaches about network design.
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Cambridge University