Cisco® Network Professional's: Advanced Internetworking Guide

1.4. Case Study: FutureTech Corporation

In today's networks, you have to know many different technologies and functions. Keeping track of where in the network items are used and deployed can become difficult. Many of the functions have dependencies, so you'll need to track those relationships to each function. Some of the processes you run can be on independent devices, and keeping track of the fact that they may not play well with other devices can be a real pain in the neck. To aid you in keeping track of where in the network you plan to deploy and implement all of the technologies covered in this book, I'm going to use a single enterprise network example. For this purpose, I created a fictional company named FutureTech Corporation. The name ...