Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH), Second Edition, is a Cisco®-authorized, self-paced learning tool for CCDP® foundation learning. This book provides you with knowledge of the latest developments in network design and technologies, including network infrastructure, intelligent network services, and converged network solutions. By reading this book, you will gain a thorough understanding of issues and considerations for fundamental infrastructure services, including security, network management, QoS, high availability, bandwidth use optimization through IP multicasting, and design architectures for network solutions such as voice over WLAN and e-commerce.

Whether you are preparing for CCDP certification or simply want to gain a better understanding of modular campus and edge network design and strategic solutions for enterprise networks such as storage area networking, virtual private networking, advanced addressing and routing, and data centers, you will benefit from the foundation information presented in this book.

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* Learn about the Cisco SONA framework, enterprise campus architecture, and PPDIOO network life-cycle approach
* Review high availability designs and implement optimal redundancy
* Plan scalable EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP designs
* Implement advanced WAN services
* Evaluate design considerations in the data center core, aggregation, and access layers
* Design storage area networks (SANs) and extend the SAN with various protocols

* Design and tune an integrated e-commerce architecture

* Integrate firewall, NAC, and intrusion detection/prevention into your network design
* Design IPsec and SSL remote access VPNs
* Deploy IP multicast and multicast routing
* Incorporate voice over WLAN in the enterprise network
* Utilize the network management capabilities inherent in Cisco IOS® software



This volume is in the Certification Self-Study Series offered by Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide officially developed self-study solutions to help networking professionals understand technology implementations and prepare for the Cisco Career Certifications examinati