How This Book Is Organized
The chapters and appendix in this book are as follows:
Chapter 1, “Fundamentals Review,” begins with a review of basic switching terminology and previews a couple of terms used in later chapters. The chapter attempts to prevent excessive cross-referencing, because many switching technologies are applicable to all chapters.
Chapter 2, “Network Design Fundamentals,” covers campus network design fundamentals, including campus network structure, Cisco Catalyst switches, and Layer 2 versus multilayer switches. A brief on Catalyst switching hardware functions is also included.
Chapter 3, “Campus Network Architecture,” introduces VLANs, VTP, trunking, and port channeling.
Chapter 4, “Spanning Tree in Depth,” goes into detail ...
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