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Back Cover

Data Networks builds on the foundation laid in Kenyon’s first book, High Performance Data Network Design, with expanded coverage of routing, tuning, and troubleshooting. Kenyon provides strategies for overcoming some of the most challenging problems in network design and management. He provides clear, specific solutions for day-to-day problems of network designers and IT managers. You'll get optimization advice from an experienced practitioner that you can put to work in your own system.

As security and network performance become more and more critical to a company's success, the system administrator's job becomes even more difficult. Use the principles, tips and techniques Kenyon offers here to enhance and protect the flow of data within your enterprise.

• Covers Addressing, Routing, Multicasting, and Quality of Service (QoS) design for enterprise network design.
• Extensive coverage on relevant Security Technologies and Virtual Private Network (VPN) implementation.
• Provides advanced coverage on Risk Assessment, Availability Analysis, Fault Tolerance, Disaster Recovery, and the Network Optimization.

About the Author

Tony Kenyon is the Chief Technical Officer of Advisor Technologies Ltd. (ATL), based in Berkshire, UK. ATL develops enterprise security management solutions for multivendor networks. Tony was formerly Technical Director for Europe, Middle East, and Africa at Nokia Internet Communications, and has worked in the data communications industry since 1983. He has designed several international communications networks, and has developed a number of modeling tools, including an award-winning graphical object-oriented network design suite. He is the author of High-Performance Data Network Design, also published by Digital Press.