PART IIINetwork Design

Understanding the design and operation of the transport and control plane subsystems of a network is a good start toward being a network engineer. Design involves adding several more points and integrating them into a whole. For instance, network design also involves the following tasks:

• Building security into the design and operation of a network

• Using the network as a tool (where it makes sense) to help secure the attached hosts and applications

• The design patterns used in network design, and where and how to apply those patterns

• Resilience at a system-wide level

• Choosing between the many technologies available to solve the set of problems presented by applications and business drivers (this reaches into the ...

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