Building Service Provider Networks
Published on 23. October 2002
592 pages
978-0-471-26829-1 (ISBN)
Description
To be competitive, service providers cannot customize everyinstallation but must simultaneously offer services that meet awide range of perceived customer needs. This guide shows commercialservice providers and equipment vendors how to build competitiveservice offerings for enterprise-specific needs.
* Provides vital technical and business guidance to the serviceprovider marketplace
* Explains how to satisfy the customer's specific needs in data,voice, and/or video
* Enables readers to gain the upper hand in submitting the mostcompetitive service network bids and service level guarantees tocustomers
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Howard Berkowitz
Building Service Provider Networks
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06/2002
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Wiley
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HOWARD BERKOWITZ is a computer scientist and networking consultantand is very active in the North American Network Operators Group(NANOG) and IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). His experienceincludes building and interconnecting to extremely large networksand designing router software. He is the author of several RFCs andhas been presenting at trade shows since 1975. He is also theauthor of three other professional networking referencebooks.
Networking Council Books put technology into perspective fordecision-makers who need an implementation strategy, a vendor andoutsourcing strategy, and a product and design strategy. The seriesadvisors are three of the most influential leaders of thenetworking community:
LYMAN CHAPIN-Chief Scientist at NextHop Technologies, former ChiefScientist at BBN, and founding trustee of the InternetSociety
SCOTT BRADNER-Senior Consultant for Harvard University, TransportArea Director IETF, trustee of the Internet Society, and ISOC VP ofStandards
VINTON CERF-Senior Vice President for Internet Architecture andTechnology at MCI WorldCom, founding President of the InternetSociety, and co-inventor of TCP/IP
Content
Networking Council Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. What Is the Problem to Be Solved?
Chapter 2. The Service Provider Landscape.
Chapter 3. Services, Service Level Agreements, and DeliveringService.
Chapter 4. Translating Service Definitions to TechnicalRequriements: Policies.
Chapter 5. Administration, Addressing, and Naming.
Chapter 6.Carrier Facilities: Getting Physical.
Chapter 7. The Provider Edge: Layer 1, Layer 2, and the PSTN.
Chapter 8. Transporting the Bits: The Sub-IP and PhysicalIntaprovider Care.
Chapter 9. Basic BGP and the Customer Side of ExteriorRouting.
Chapter 10. Subscriber to provider, and Subscriber to SubscriberEdge: IP.
Chapter 11. The Intraprovider Core: IP/MPLS.
Chapter 12. The Provider-to-Provider Border.
Chapter 13. VPNs and Related Services.
References.
Index.
