Chapter 2. Hierarchical Network Design

This chapter covers the following subjects:

Network design principles: This section reviews the three pillars needed to design enterprise networks: modularity, hierarchy, and resiliency. The subsequent sections extend these concepts by segmenting the enterprise network into multiple blocks. The subsequent sections go into details of each of these modules.

Enterprise core network design: This section reviews the need for a core layer and the design considerations for this layer.

Enterprise campus network design: This section reviews different design options in the campus network for the access-distribution blocks.

Enterprise network services design: This section outlines the need for network services ...

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