Liotine Matthew. Mission-critical Network Planning

Artech House, 2003. — 432 p.Whether a terrorist attack, fiber cut, security breach, natural disaster or traffic overload, today's networks must be designed to withstand adverse conditions and provide continuous service. This comprehensive, leading-edge book reveals the techniques and strategies to help you keep enterprise data and voice networks in service under critical circumstances. You learn numerous ways to minimize single points of failure through redundancy and backups, and discover how to select the right networking technologies to improve survivability and performance. This unique and timely resource shows you how to spot vulnerabilities in a network, use the protective features of different technologies for continuity and security, and build survivable network infrastructure. Supported with over 150 illustrations, this handy reference goes far beyond typical books dealing with only disaster recovery, to offer you a complete avoidance approach that proactively implements measures to protect infrastructure and systems from unplanned events.