- Hardcover: 441 pages
- Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (14 July 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1558604588
- ISBN-13: 978-1558604582
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 19.5 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,782,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The new version (0.91) of Delite is now available for downloading.
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 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. The accompanying design tool, Delite, offers you the opportunity for hands-on experience with the design process.
* 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
About the Author
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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4.0 out of 5 stars
very good guide to design using tools for large scale nets,
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This review is from: Wide Area Network Design: Concepts and Tools for Optimization (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) (Hardcover)
This book is written for designers of large scale data networks.The book could also be used to assist with voice or mux design but is largely about designing router networks on a large scale, and optimising the designs. The author provides methods and algorithms for automating the design of networks to optimise cost, performance, resilience etc, and deals with the practicalities of using design tools. A simple design tool is available via FTP as a companion to the book (although i havent had time to get this and try it). Most useful part of the book is the way it quantiifes network design rather than works with "wooly" statements like "better", "faster", "cheaper". Not all of this is applicable to what i do every day, but I will be using some of these methods to improve my designs. Stephen
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2.5 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent book to understand network optimization,
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This review is from: Wide Area Network Design: Concepts and Tools for Optimization (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) (Hardcover)
I have been working in the telecom industry for over 9 years. I have been invloved with the development of decision support systems for network planning and design at one of the largest carriers in the world. Optimization is a misused word but this book does an excellent job of presenting useful and practical techniques for network optimization. If you are interested in quantitaive analysis and design of real networks this is a good book to have.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
More math than expected,
By Henrik Lund Kramshøj - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wide Area Network Design: Concepts and Tools for Optimization (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) (Hardcover)
Hi thereThis book includes more math than practical examples, and is But I think the book is great, and the examples are fruit for I have used it several times for my thesis about IPv6 network design Best regards
3.0 out of 5 stars
could be better,
By Terry Abbott - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wide Area Network Design: Concepts and Tools for Optimization (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) (Hardcover)
This book discusses some detailed design methods for networks. Many of the problems worked through are not described well. Several times the author makes huge jumps in logic that are not explained. Other times formulas are presented without explaination of where they come from. The companion software is very terse and not easy to use. It lacks the simple ability to navigate in the open file dialog box. The approach to network design emphasizes the approach from a mathamatician's point of view and because of its complexity would not be used by most organizations. It's all nice in theory but is not practical to use in the real world.
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