- Fundamentals of Voice over Frame Relay
- Sep 11, 2000
- This article serves as both a basic and not-so-basic overview of some of the technologies behind Voice over Frame Relay (a primer of sorts).
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- General Design Considerations for Secure Networks
- Jun 18, 2004
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- Green Data Center Design and Build Strategies
- Aug 12, 2009
- This chapter discusses methods for limiting the environmental impact that occurs during the construction of a Data Center.
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- High-Level Network Architecture and VoiceXML
- May 24, 2002
- This article describes the interaction of high-level network architecture and VoiceXML.
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- Home Networking: What Type Is Best?
- Apr 19, 2002
- This brief guide to building a home network helps you decide how each device should relate to the others. Your determination will be based on what you need the network to do, cost, need for speed, and how much you plan to grow.
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- How to Share an Internet Connection, Part Two
- Feb 16, 2001
- In this article, Lon Poole and John Rizzo, coauthors of The Little Network Book, introduce you to Internet gateways and how they are utilized when sharing an Internet connection among multiple computers.
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- HyperTransport Flow Control
- Jun 6, 2003
- Explore background information on bus flow control and master efficient management of transaction flow with HyperTransport. You will also learn about HyperTransport flow control, which is used to throttle the movement of packets across each link interface.
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- I/O Consolidation in the Data Center
- Sep 23, 2009
- This chapter explains the benefits and challenges of designing physical infrastructure to simultaneously carry multiple types of traffic.
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- Imagining an Open Network
- Apr 18, 2008
- David Chisnall examines what an open network would look like and how one could be built.
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- Improve Your Network's Security Using Network Admission Control
- Aug 26, 2005
- Is there a place for security focused on the good guys in networking? There is, and one of the latest additions to this area of security is called Network Admission Control (NAC). Sean Convery introduces NAC, a security measure built around the idea that asking specific questions of an organization's end hosts can improve the overall security of a network by improving the compliance of end systems to a given admission policy.
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- Initial Interdomain Network Topology
- Aug 9, 2002
- Take a look at a detailed example of an ISP customer within an interdomain multicast network implemented SSM in its network using URD, and learn the three ways to implement SSM in an interdomain environment.
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- Installing and Testing Copper Cabling in LANs
- Oct 27, 2009
- This chapter describes issues related to installing and testing copper physical media for use in local area networks, primarily twisted-pair cabling.
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- Introduction to Cisco Network Design
- Feb 8, 2002
- This sample chapter from Cisco Press provides an overview of the technologies available today to design networks.
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- Introduction to Cisco NX-OS
- Jul 19, 2010
- This chapter provides an introduction and overview of NX-OS and a comparison between traditional IOS and NX-OS configurations and terminology.
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- Introduction to Mobile Application Architectures
- Oct 15, 2004
- As mobile devices become more common, it becomes imperative to understand how this environment poses unique application architecture challenges. This chapter will help you understand the issues involved in developing applications for mobile devices.
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- IP Routing: From Basic Principles to Link State Protocols
- Mar 29, 2002
- Control network traffic by learning the routing protocols and mechanisms that build and maintain route information.
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- IPv6 Translation and Tunneling Technologies
- Jun 26, 2013
- With the exhaustion of the IPv4 addressing space quickly approaching, it has become a high priority for organizations to begin their own deployments of IPv6. This can be accomplished in a number of different ways. This article examines specific methods and how they can be used to support an IPv6 deployment.
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- IPv6 Tunneling Technology Configuration
- Jun 26, 2013
- This article focuses on the basic configuration of available IPv6 tunneling technologies for Cisco networks.
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- IPv6: Are We Nearly There Yet?
- Apr 22, 2011
- Since the IANA ran out of addresses, IPv6 adoption has gone from being useful to being essential. But still only a small fraction of the Internet is accessible via the newer protocol. David Chisnall examines some of the reasons for the delay in widespread adoption.
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- IPv6: What's the Problem?
- Apr 27, 2011
- David Chisnall continues to look at the problems facing people attempting to deploy IPv6. This week's article looks at various bugs and limitations in existing systems, which cause problems when rolling out IPv6.
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