Router Installation Field Manual

At the National Electrical Contractors Association's (NECA) first Voice/Data/Video Conference in May 2000, one of the big topics of conversation was the controversy surrounding the premises wiring market. Improper wiring and router installation done by unlicensed installers is the case of 70% of power down-time - a big impediment to traditional and e-businesses alike. Unlicensed installers typically make $53 per square foot of cable they pull, compared to $3-$5 per square foot a licensed electrician bills. To add insult to injury, licensed electricians are the ones to be called to correct these improperly installed cables. This is a great concern to the electrical construction market. Routers are devices that connect any number of LANs to each other. They move packets of data from host A to host B, and communicate with each other to determine the best route between them. In short, the purpose of routers is to route data. The different types of routers are characterized by what and how they route from one network to another. Organizations of all sizes are deploying routers to permit network communications both internally and with remote sites.
Routers have become one of the most important building blocks to creating a heterogeneous, enterprise-wide network consisting of PCs, workstations and servers that communicate via LANs and WANs. Installing and maintaining them are paramount to keeping a network running efficiently. "Router Installation Field Manual" should be a networking professional's one-stop portable resource for answering all the questions that will help them install, test and troubleshoot routers in an internetworked environment. It should provide vital at-a-glance information on how to install routers to connect LANs into the wide area, test interior and border routers, and troubleshoot Internet Protocol (IP) routing problems. Hands-on examples and key information in the form of checklists, tables, charts and illustrations should help them avoid mistakes, and wasted time and money.