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Cisco LAN Switching Kennedy Clark Kevin Hamilton

Publisher: Cisco Press
First Edition August 26, 1999 ISBN: 1-57870-094-9, 960 pages

Front Matter Table of Contents Index About the Author

CCIE Professional Development: Cisco LAN Switching is essential for preparation for the CCIE Routing and Switching exam track. As well as CCIE preparation, this comprehensive volume provides readerswith an in-depth analysis of Cisco LAN Switching technologies, architectures and deployments. CCIE Professional Development: Cisco LAN Switching discusses product operational details, hardware options, configuration fundamentals, spanning tree, source-route bridging, multilayer switching, and other technology areas related to the Catalyst series switches. The book presents these issues at advancedlevels, providing overviews of both LAN technologies and Cisco switching hardware, and covering Catalyst network design essentials not found anywhere else. CCIE candidates will gain exam preparation through the following book elements: chapter-opening overviews of objectives; scenarios that highlight real-world issues; configuration examples and case studies; and review questions and exercises.About the Authors
Kennedy Clark is a CCIE instructor and consultant for Chesapeake Computer Consultants, Inc. (CCCI), a Cisco training partner. As a Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (CCSI), Kennedy was one of the original Catalyst instructors for Cisco. Having focused on Catalyst and ATM switching since 1996, he has taught a wide variety of switching classes. As a consultant for CCCI, Kennedyhas been involved in the design and implementation of many large, switched backbones. Kevin Hamilton is also an instructor and consultant for Chesapeake. As a CCSI, Kevin spends most of his instructional time teaching the Cisco Catalyst and ATM courses. Prior to joining Chesapeake, Kevin worked for 11 years at Litton-FiberCom, where he designed and deployed numerous analog and digital communicationssystems worldwide, including Ethernet, Token-Ring, FDDI, and ATM. Kevin obtained a degree in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

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About the Technical Reviewers
Merwyn Andrade works as a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, California. Merwyn works closely with Cisco engineering and customers on features running across Ciscoswitches as well as enhancements to minimizing downtime and convergence and improving network availability. Merwyn also has a patent in progress in this area. Prior to Cisco, Merwyn worked with the Bombay Stock Exchange and as a Network Consultant with HCL-Hewlett Packard in India. He is an Industrial Electronics Engineer from Bombay, India. Philip B. Bourgeois has been in the computer industry forfifteen years, spending seven years as a networking specialist with IBM and the past five years as a Senior Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems. Phil is experienced in the design and implementation of large IP and multiprotocol networks, encompassing complex wide area network designs and campus local area networks. Phil is a networking consultant to the largest commercial enterprises in the northeastarea, including insurance, the health care industry, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, casino/gaming industry, state government agencies, and higher education. His current position is as a Consulting Systems Engineer with a specialty focus in high-speed LAN switching and ATM network design projects. Jennifer DeHaven Carroll is a Principal Consultant for International Network Services. She is CCIEnumber 1402. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Barbara. In the past 11 years, Jennifer has planned, designed, and implemented many networks, utilizing both Layer 2 and Layer 3 techniques. She has also developed and taught many theory and Cisco implementation classes on various networking technologies. Stuart Hamilton is the Senior...