Product Description

CCNP-WS courses are gaining in popularity as companies recognize the need for qualified, certified WAN professionals. This Coursebook is an excellent resource that supplements instructor-led training classes and offers an alternative self-paced study option to those not attending the recommended courses. The book contains updated course material for the four courses recommended for CCNP-WS preparation: 640-419 Multiband Switch and Service Configuration (MSSC); 640-425 BPX Switch and Service Configuration (BSSC); 640-411 MGX ATM Concentrator Configuration (MACC); and 640-459 Cisco WAN Manager Installation and Operation (CWMIO). It contains five parts, with Parts II through V devoted to the four courses. Review questions and answers appear at the end of each major part. An appendix lists commands for the MSSC, BSSC, MACC, and CWMIO.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1747559 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1320 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Switching, as this authoritative book proves, is not just for local area networks (LANs) anymore. If you know what you're doing--and especially if you have Cisco WAN Switching Professional Reference by your elbow--you can set up a wide area network (WAN) without necessarily involving a router. By designing a network around Cisco Systems' IGX, BPX, or MGX families of WAN switching products, you can provide your users with the kind of reliable, high-speed inter-site connectivity they need to run IP telephony, IP video, and demanding client-server applications. That's what this book is about. It's an in-depth look at the Cisco way of implementing WAN switching, complete with plenty of command line entry-and-response listings and details on the relative merits of different Cisco products.

Editor Tracy Thorpe has organised her work into three parts--one each for the IGX, BPX, and MGX lines. Each section defines the capabilities of its equipment before going into detail on its command line interface (which is not the same as that of Cisco routers). In this section, you'll find explicit how-to information on the stuff you have to understand, like configuring ports, setting up network trunks, configuring different kinds of interface cards, and setting up various signalling protocols. Because this will be unfamiliar to pretty much everyone--it's not too similar to Cisco router configuration--the elementary stuff is challenging enough. But Thorpe explains it clearly and patiently, and digs into design work and advanced configuration strategies with clarity and apparent enthusiasm. Each chapter concludes with a series of multiple-choice questions like those you'd find on a Cisco professional certification exam. --David Wall

Topics covered: Designed for use as a textbook in three Cisco Systems classes--Multiband Switch and Service Configuration (MSSC), BPX Switch and Service Configuration (BSSC), and MGX ATM Concentrator Configuration (MACC)--this book is the definitive encyclopaedia on non-routed connectivity between geographically separate networks via Cisco gear. IGX, BPX, and MGX equipment families are all covered in depth, from the most elemental administrative functions to high-level design work.

From the Back Cover

Complete WAN Switching Coursebook-covering all three MSSC, BSSC, and MACC courses

Cisco WAN Switching Professional Reference contains the complete course materials for three official professional-level WAN switching courses:

• MSSC: Multiband Switch and Service Configuration
• BSSC: BPX Switch and Service Configuration
• MACC: MGX ATM Concentrator Configuration

  As client/server applications become more demanding and corporations and e-businesses depend more heavily on the wide-area network (WAN) infrastructure, there is a growing need for skilled WAN engineers who are trained to design and maintain high-availability WANs. Another factor driving the need for expert WAN switching professionals is the fact that prices of large-scale private WAN networks are dropping for the enterprise customer. With WAN switching technology becoming more affordable and increasingly critical to support customers of service providers and carriers, WAN switching know-how is essential for employers and employees alike. This book helps you choose the appropriate equipment for your environment and gives you the tools you need to implement and support the entire line of Cisco WAN switches.

  Whether you are searching for an accompaniment to the Cisco WAN switching courses or simply need a comprehensive reference to the complete line of Cisco WAN switches, Cisco WAN Switching Professional Reference provides you with an end-to-end solution for implementing, configuring, and troubleshooting these critical components of any large-scale network architecture.

  "Wide-area network switching products and technologies form the telecommunications backbone from which service providers deliver all new communications services across our planet. As we build a bigger, better, and faster global communications infrastructure-one of increasing importance to businesses, governments, schools, and individuals across the world-the need for WAN switching professionals becomes vital to the operation of the network upon which the world does business. The Cisco WAN Switching Professional Reference is the only training guide of its kind on the market today, providing a complete and in-depth understanding of WAN switching technologies." -Charles Giancarlo, Senior VP and GM, Cisco Systems, Inc.(r)

  • Learn to install and configure Cisco's complete line of WAN switches
  • Understand the complete inner workings of the MGX(tm), BPX(r), and IGX(tm) switches
  • Explore voice, IP, ATM, and MPLS features on the MGX switch
  • Understand interworking between Frame Relay and ATM
  • Configure ATM ports, ATM connections, and SONET APS
  • Find information on voice and data channels and connections on the IGX switch
  • Test your WAN switching knowledge with end-of-chapter review questions
  • Learn how to synchronize your network with any type of WAN switch
  • Troubleshoot your network efficiently and effectively

  This volume is in the Certification and Training Series offered by Cisco Press. Books in this series provide officially developed training solutions on key internetworking topics to help networking professionals understand technology implementations and prepare for the Cisco Career Certifications examinations.

About the Author

Tracy Thorpe, CCNP-WS, is a technical writer at Cisco Systems. She has authored Release 10 of the Cisco WAN Manager User's Guide.