May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1200 pages
44h 39m
English
SOME OF THE MAIN TOPICS IN THIS CHAPTER ARE
Planning a Logical Network Design 31
Planning and Design Components 36
Many types of networks were discussed in Chapter 1, “A Short History of Computer Networking,” from ARPANET to TCP/IP. And in Chapter 2, “Overview of Network Topologies,” you learned about the various topologies you can employ when designing and creating a local area network (LAN), and we also looked at some scenarios in which several networks were connected to form a wide area network (WAN). In this chapter, we will look at another aspect of creating a network: the network’s logical and physical design. The physical aspects of your LAN will depend ...