CCNP Self-Study: Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN), Third Edition

Chapter 1. Introduction to Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Multilayer Switching Overview

• The Enterprise Composite Network Model for Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks

• Introduction to the Cisco Catalyst Switches

Imagine a network with a 100 percent uptime that never interrupts user traffic, prevents worms and viruses, maintains stability and integrity during anomalous events, replicates data among different storage vendors, provides for immediate disaster recovery, routes inbound calls for employees through local voice over IP (VoIP) networks, provides virtual private network (VPN) access to remote site users as if they were at the main site, migrates storage effortlessly, provides quality ...