Art of Network Architecture, The: Business-Driven Design (Networking Technology)

Summary: This book won't help someone in operations, and might help someone doing projects. It will definitely help the network architect.I've found that I almost never need to buy and read a full-fledged book any more since I can find blog posts, how-to's, vendor documentation, and forum banter, on practically every topic around. The only reason I can think of to buy a book on a technical subject is when you need a consistent voice providing context and a deeper dive on a spectrum of related concepts. If you want to know how EIGRP or IPSec works ... you don't need a book.But this book is aimed at people who already went through Jeff Doyle, Bassam Halabi, etcetera. People with years of experience in operations and then design, who now need to step up and look at the broader picture. Things like what, exactly, is a tunnel? Believe it or not this is a fruitful discussion and Russ cuts to the meat of it in a few pages.If it's your job to look at a multi-site network and figure out how to design optimum resilience, deterministic failover, etcetera, then this book is an awesome win. It covers a lot of things that no other book I have does.Keith Tokash, CCIE #21236

Another excellent book for network designers. Despite being a Cisco Press book, it is very much vendor neutral. The book talks less about validated architectures and more about thought processes and models, which is rare to find. The SDN section was of particular interest to me as it helped to eliminate the hype surrounding the topic and put into perspective the trade-offs that it brings.

I love it, concise overview of the main network topics we face today (at least to my knowledge), detailed enough for the type of book, expressing the authors opinions, justifying in some cases their views, going here and there against some myths and tabus. Many thanks for this reading

This book is written for professional networkers who are working with advanced architectures. This book touches on business needs as well as technical discussions and shows probably solutions for large scalable networks. Well written and super helpful in new networking designs.

Very good book on the general design principals relating to networking. Also a good reference from time to time to prevent "bad design habits'

Here is an example excerpt from the book "By definition, organized complexity, particularly in the field of network architecture, interacts with the intent of the designer, which in turn relates to the difficulty of the problem being solved." If you find sentences like this helpful then this is the book for you.

Buen libro

The book is like a popular mechanic magazine. It is easy to read and understand.