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Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks

Best practices for planning and deployment of broadband WWANs

* Learn insider tips from an experienced wireless industry leader
* Understand the principles that underlie the operation of all wireless systems
* Learn how to provide profitable and reliable wireless Internet access
* Select the most effective equipment and antenna systems for your area
* Avoid common pitfalls encountered by new wireless network operators
* Minimize the effects of noise and interference on your network
* Enjoy the satisfaction of providing wireless Internet access to your community
* Practice the business principles used by successful wireless ISPs (WISPs)
* Use 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g equipment more successfully in your own home, office, or outdoor environment
* Choose the right network architecture for your wireless network
* Conduct physical site surveys and radio-frequency (RF) site surveys

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End-to-End QoS Network Design: Quality of Service in LANs, WANs, and VPNs

Best-practice QoS designs for protecting voice, video, and critical data while mitigating network denial-of-service attacks

* Understand the service-level requirements of voice, video, and data applications
* Examine strategic QoS best practices, including Scavenger-class QoS tactics for DoS/worm mitigation
* Learn about QoS tools and the various interdependencies and caveats of these tools that can impact design considerations
* Learn how to protect voice, video, and data traffic using various QoS mechanisms
* Evaluate design recommendations for protecting voice, video, and multiple classes of data while mitigating DoS/worm attacks for the following network infrastructure architectures: campus LAN, private WAN, MPLS VPN, and IPSec VPN

Quality of Service (QoS) has already proven itself as the enabling technology for the convergence of voice, video, and data networks. As business needs evolve, so do the demands for QoS. The need to protect critical applications via QoS mechanisms in business networks has escalated over the past few years, primarily due to the increased frequency and sophistication of denial-of-service (DoS) and worm attacks.

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IT organizations face pressure to increase productivity, improve application performance, support global collaboration, improve data protection, and minimize costs. In today’s WAN-centered environments, traditional LAN-oriented infrastructure approaches are insufficient to meet these goals. Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization Fundamentals introduces a better solution: integrating today’s new generation of accelerator solutions to efficiently and effectively scale networks beyond traditional capabilities while improving performance and minimizing costs through consolidation.

Ted Grevers and Joel Christner begin by reviewing the challenges network professionals face in delivering applications to globally distributed workforces. You learn how accelerators are transforming application business models, enabling IT departments to centralize and consolidate resources while also delivering consistently superior performance.

Grevers and Christner show how to identify network consumers, prioritize traffic, and guarantee appropriate throughput and response times to business-critical applications. You learn how to use quality of service techniques such as packet classification and marking and traffic policing, queuing, scheduling, and shaping.

Next, you compare options for integrating accelerators and optimization services into your network and for optimizing content delivery. The authors show how to address application protocol-related performance problems that cannot be resolved through compression or flow optimization alone. In the final chapter, the authors walk you through several real-world scenarios for utilizing accelerator technology.

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