November 2004
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
10h 1m
English
This chapter includes the following topics:
Background
Allocating network resources
Traffic-handling mechanisms
Provisioning and configuration mechanisms
MPLS
Traffic engineering
Queuing mechanisms
Integrated services
Resource Reservation Protocol
Differentiated services
Mission-critical applications, such as Oracle, Citrix, Microsoft Exchange, and the new breed of web-based applications, must perform well to ensure success in today’s fast-paced environment. Bottlenecks may occur in many places, including the network. These bottlenecks often occur even though you have budgeted what you thought was more than adequate bandwidth for each application.
This is generally caused by a misperception ...
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