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CCNP Optimizing Converged Networks(ONT 642-845)

Lab Portfolio

 

David Kotfila • Joshua Moorhouse • Ross G. Wolfson, CCIE® No. 16696

 

CCNP Optimizing Converged Networks (ONT 642-845) Lab Portfolio provides you with opportunities for hands-on practice with optimizing and providing effective QoS techniques in converged networks operating voice, wireless, and security applications. Topics also include implementing a VoIP network, specific mechanisms for implementing the DiffServ QoS model, AutoQoS, wireless security, and basic wireless management.

 

Those preparing for the Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks (ONT 642-845) certification exam should work through this book cover-to-cover. Or, if you need to quickly review configuration examples, you can go directly to the relevant chapter.

 

CCNP Optimizing Converged Networks (ONT 642-845) Lab Portfolio includes

• 21 Labs built to support v5 of the Optimizing Converged Networks course within the Cisco® Networking Academy® curriculum, providing ample opportunity to practice.
• 2 Challenge and Troubleshooting Labs have been added to the core curriculum labs to test your mastery of the topics.
• 1 Case Study to give you a taste of what is involved in a fully functioning network, covering all the technologies taught in this course. Even if you do not have the actual equipment to configure these more complex topologies, it is worth reading through these labs to expand your thinking into more complex networking solutions.

 

David Kotfila, CCNP®, CCAI, is the director of the Cisco Networking Academy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York.

 

Joshua Moorhouse, CCNP, recently graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor of science degree in computer science, where he also worked as a teaching assistant in the Cisco Networking Academy. He currently works as a network engineer at Factset Research Systems.

 

Ross Wolfson, CCIE® No. 16696, recently graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor of science degree in computer science. He currently works as a network engineer at Factset Research Systems.

 

Use this Lab Portfolio with:

 

CCNP ONT Official Exam Certification Guide

ISBN-10: 1-58720-176-3

ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-176-9

 

CCNP ONT Portable Command Guide

ISBN-10: 1-58720-185-2

ISBN-13: 978-158720-185-1

 

This book is part of the Cisco Networking Academy Series from Cisco Press®. Books in this series support and complement the Cisco Networking Academy curriculum.

 

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CCNP Implementing Secured Converged Wide-Area Networks (ISCW 642-825) Lab Portfolio

 

David Kotfila • Joshua Moorhouse • Ross G. Wolfson, CCIE® No. 16696

 

CCNP Implementing Secured Converged Wide-Area Networks (ISCW 642-825) Lab Portfolio provides you with opportunities for hands-on practice to secure and expand the reach of an enterprise-class network to teleworkers and branch sites.

 

The labs reinforce your understanding of how to secure and expand the reach of an enterprise network with a focus on VPN configuration and securing network access to remote sites. The book’s primary focus includes teleworker configuration and access, Frame Mode MPLS, site-to-site IPsec VPN, Cisco® EZVPN, strategies used to mitigate network attacks, Cisco device hardening, and Cisco IOS® firewall features.

 

Those preparing for the Implementing Secured Converged Wide-Area Networks (ISCW 642-825) certification exam should work through this book cover to cover. If you need to quickly review configuration examples, you can go directly to the relevant chapter.

 

CCNP Implementing Secured Converged Wide-Area Networks (ISCW 642-825) Lab Portfolio includes

• 27 Labs built to support v5 of the Implementing Secured Converged Wide-Area Networks course within the Cisco Networking Academy® curriculum providing ample opportunity for practice.
• 2 Challenge and Troubleshooting Labs added to the core curriculum labs to test your mastery of the topics.
• 2 Case Studies to give you a taste of what is involved in a fully functioning network covering all the technologies taught in this course. Even if you do not have the actual equipment to configure these more complex topologies, it is worth reading through these labs to expand your thinking into more complex networking solutions.

 

David Kotfila, CCNP®, CCAI, is the director of the Cisco Networking Academy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York.

 

Joshua Moorhouse, CCNP, recently graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor of science degree in computer science, where he also worked as a teaching assistant in the Cisco Networking Academy. He currently works as a network engineer at Factset Research Systems.

 

Ross Wolfson, CCIE® No. 16696, recently graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor of science degree in computer science. He currently works as a network engineer at Factset Research Systems.

 

Use this Lab Portfolio with:

 

CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide

ISBN-10: 1-58720-150-X

ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-150-9

 

CCNP ISCW Portable Command Guide

ISBN-10: 1-58720-186-0

ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-186-8

 

This book is part of the Cisco Networking Academy Series from Cisco Press®. Books in this series support and complement the Cisco Networking Academy curriculum.

 

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Your Hands-On Guide to Voice over IP (VoIP)

This book was written for the thousands of IT professionals-from CIOs to circuit-switched telecom engineers-who are now responsible for deploying and maintaining secure VoIP networks. The book explains the impact on your VoIP network of PSTN, SIP, H.323, firewalls, NAT, encryption, and the regulatory environment. Coverage includes evaluation, design, integration, and management of VoIP networking components, including IP telephones, gateways, gatekeepers, registration servers, media servers, and proxy servers. Throughout the book, the authors rely on their extensive real-world experience to provide readers with practical applications and solutions.

• VoIP Isn't Just Another Data Protocol
  IP telephony uses the Internet architecture, similar to any other data application. However, from a security administrator's point of view, VoIP is different. Understand why.

• What Functionality Is Gained, Degraded, or Enhanced on a VoIP Network?
  Find out the issues associated with quality of service, emergency 911 service, and the major benefits of VoIP.

• The Security Considerations of Voice Messaging
  Learn about the types of security attacks you need to protect against within your voice messaging system.

• VoIP and the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
  Understand PSTN: what is it, and how does it work?

• VoIP Communication Architectures
  See how products like Skype, H.248, IAX, and Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005

• The Support Protocols of VoIP Environments
  Learn the services, features, and security implications of DNS, TFTP, HTTP, SNMP, DHCP, RSVP, SDP, and SKINNY.

• Securing the Whole VoIP Infrastructure
  Your guide to Denial-of-Service attacks, VoIP service disruption, call hijacking and interception, H.323-specific attacks, and SIP-specific attacks.

• Authorized Access Begins with Authentication
  Learn the methods of verifying both the user identity and the device identity in order to secure a VoIP network.

• Secure Internet Mail
  See how S/MIME provides cryptographic security services for electronic messaging applications.

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“Triple Play”is a combination of Internet access, voice communication (telephony), and entertainment services such as IP television and video on demand.

The erosion of the traditional voice service, together with the ever-increasing competition between companies, is pushing the telecommunications industry towards a major shift in its business models. Customers want more services in a more flexible way. Today, this shift can only be carried out by offering converged services built around the Internet Protocol (IP). Triple Play, a bundle of voice, video, and data services for residential customers, is the basis of this new strategy.

Hens and Caballero explain how and why the telecommunications industry is facing this change, how to define, implement and offer these new services, and describes the technology behind the converged network. Triple Play analyses a number of business strategies to minimise costs, while migrating infrastructures and offering new services.

Triple Play:

• Describes the elementary concepts of triple play service provision and gives detailed technical information to highlight key aspects.
• Discussed access networks, transport, signaling, service definition and business models.
• Covers the latest innovations in Triple Play services such as Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM), VDSL2 (Very High Speed DSL second generation), pseudowires andMultiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).
• Explores video solutions (encoding, IPTV, VoD) alongside transmission and switching technologies (Ethernet, DSL, PON, NG-SDH).
• Includes a chapter on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and on fixed/mobile convergence. 

Triple Play: Building the Converged Network for IP, VoIP and IPTV provides decision makers, engineers, telecommunications operators, network equipment manufacturers, installers and IT managers with a thorough understanding of the changes of traditional voice service and its impact upon the telecommunications industry..
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IMS Multimedia Telephony service has been standardized in 3GPP as the replacement of the circuit switched telephony service in cellular networks. The multimedia telephony service consists of several service components such as voice, video and text. ‘IMS Multimedia Telephony over Cellular Systems’ provides a comprehensive overview of the service that will enable enriched telephony for mobile users. Enriched telephony fulfils the user’s desire to communicate in new ways, for example by sharing pictures and video clips.

In addition to an overview of the Multimedia Telephony service, the book focuses on the modern media processing methods, which allows the quality of the packet switched voice and video telephony not only to match but also possibly exceed the quality of circuit switched telephony. Such key components as adaptive jitter buffering and adaptation of conversational media are explained in detail.

Key features:

• Detailed description of how Multimedia Telephony sessions are set-up and controlled
• Analysis showing the capacity and quality of VoIP and Multimedia Telephony in cellular networks
• Coverage of other IMS services such as PoC specified by 3GPP and OMA
• Description of suitable QoS and radio bearers for Multimedia Telephony
• Explanation of the modern radio interface, especially High Speed Packet Access, which is based on concepts such as link adaptation and fast hybrid ARQ

The possibilities for the current and future standards covered in this book make it an indispensable resource for engineers, designers and researchers in VoIP, telecommunication companies and universities teaching and conducting research in telecommunications. It will also be of interest to managers needing an in-depth knowledge of the engineering and key issues of this complex technology, and students aspiring to develop a career in this area..
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Get the big picture on converged network architectures and emerging protocols!
Converged networks integrate voice, video, and data traffic on a single network. This book covers converged network architectures as well as the latest enabling protocols including SIP, H.323, MPLS, and H.248. Readers will gain a better understanding of network architectures and protocols such as SONET, frame relay, ATM and IP. The book offers the latest information on voice communication networks, data networks, voice packet processing, coding for broadband systems, and voice- over packet networks. Readers will also discover how converged networks can provide the highest level of service for the least cost..
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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) uses services as the baseline for developing new architectures and applications, as networks are built specifically to satisfy service requirements. Most services are currently handled over different networks, but newer services will soon require cross-network support. Architecting the Telecommunication Evolution: Toward Converged Network Services outlines the challenges of providing crossover services and the new architectures and protocols that will enable convergence between circuit- and packet-switched networks. Taking a standards-based approach to converged services, this book lays a foundation for SOA in telecommunications. The authors begin by outlining the development of Internet telephony, focusing on how to use the respective benefits of the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) and the Internet to create and implement more value-added services. These two eminent specialists first examine services that originate in the Internet and take advantage of PSTN services, and then explore how discrete events on the PSTN can be used as an impetus to creating services on the Internet. They conclude with a discussion on how this convergence creates smart spaces in the telecoms domain. Including eight valuable appendices that will aid in the implementation of converged services, Architecting the Telecommunication Evolution is the first book of its kind to offer a survey as well as a practical roadmap to integrating modern networks to achieve better performance and new functionality..
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Voice over IP Technologies provides solid technical information on how to successfully design and implement a converged network, combining voice, data, fax and video transmissions into a cohesive networking infrastructure centered on the Internet Protocol.

Converged networks, which combine voice, data, fax and video transmissions into a cohesive networking infrastructure -- all centered on the Internet Protocol, or IP -- promise a number of advantages over existing, separate networking environments. But to successfully design and implement a converged network requires expertise on both the voice and data networking sides of the house. Unfortunately, few individuals have these credentials -- either you are a voice networking expert, and familiar with circuit switching and connections between PBXs, or you are a data networking expert, familiar with packet switching and connections between routers and servers.

The objective of this text is to bridge the gap between the voice and data networking sides, and provide the reader with the opportunity to fill in their areas of weakness with solid technical information. In addition, this text presents a number of case studies, from architectural, financial and technical perspectives that illustrate real-world applications for these technologies..
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• Examines next generation APIs in detail
• Provides broad coverage of several different call models and APIs, including JAIN, JTAPI, JCC, and Parlay
• Discusses technical trade-offs involved in call control modeling and services
• Sample call flows are shown to aid programmers using UML or Java

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