Chapter 1. Overview

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This book provides a resource for network architects who design IP network architectures for the typical data center. It provides abstractions as well as detailed insights based on actual network engineering experience that include network product development and real-world customer experiences. The focus of this book is limited to network architectures that support Web services-based multi-tier architectures. However, this includes everything from the edge data center switch (which connects the data center to the existing backbone network) to the server network protocol stacks. While there is tremendous acceptance of Web services technologies and multi-tier software architectures, there is limited information about how to create the network infrastructures required in the data center to optimally support these new architectures. This book also provides a new perspective on how to think about solving this problem, leveraging new emerging technologies that help create superior solutions. It explains in detail how certain key technologies work and why they are recommended procedures.

One of the complexities of networking in general is that the technology requires breadth of knowledge. Networking connectivity spans many completely different technologies. It is a complex, interconnected, commingled, interrelated set of components and devices, including hardware, software, and different solution approaches for each segment. We try to simplify this complexity by extracting key segments and taking a layered approach in describing an end-to-end solution while limiting the scope of material to the data center.

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    Networking Concepts and Technology. A Designer's Resource
    Networking Concepts and Technology: A Designers Resource
    ISBN: 0131482076
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2003
    Pages: 116

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