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WIDE AREA NETWORK DESIGN
Wide Area Network DesignConcepts and Tools for Optimization
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By
Robert Cahn, Cambridge University

Included in series
The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking,

Description


The new version (0.91) of Delite is now available for downloading.

As the cost of building and upgrading complex, large-scale networks skyrockets, carefully crafted network designs become critical- a savings of as little as 5% in your network can amount to tens of thousands of dollars per month. Wide Area Network Design: Concepts and Tools for Optimization provides the information you need to tackle the challenges of designing a network that meets your performance goals within the cost constraints of your organization. If you are considering public service alternatives such as frame relay, designing your own network with the tools provided in this book will empower you to estimate cost savings and evaluate bids from competing carriers.

Intended for network designers, planners, and architects, this book enables you to estimate traffic flows and requirements in your network and explains how to use various algorithms to design a network which must meets these requirements. The accompanying design tool, Delite, offers you the opportunity for hands-on experience with the design process.

Contents
1 Introduction What is Network Design Overview Design Alternatives Ordering the Designs Choosing the Final Design Designs which are Losers Which is More Important, Performance or Cost? A Low Tech Solution to the Network Design Problem Summary Exercises 2 "Hello World" of Network Design Overview A Two Location Problem The Straight-Forward Solution Adding PBXs Reducing the Trunks at Bregen The Busy Hour Profile The Erlang Calcultaion Calculating the Blocking Designing the Inter-site link Simplifying the Traffic Profile Analysis of the Inter-site link The Erlang-B Function Recursion The Final Voice Design A Three-Location Data Network Problem The Queueing Theory Needed to Analyse Link Delays Designing the Data Net

Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 441 pages, publication date: MAY-1998
ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-458-2
ISBN-10: 1-55860-458-8
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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