LAN Switching first-step

Chapter Summary

There is no “one size fits all” network design; there are only models to which you, like other network designers, engineers, and managers, adhere. Given the right tools, you can design, build, and manage your network; and this chapter has discussed the essential tools that you will need to design, build, and manage a switched network.

These are the components of a switched network: the physical switch platform itself; a common infrastructure, to implement features on your switches; and a network management platform, so that you can monitor and manage your network's performance.

There are two types of switched networks in your design toolkit: a Layer 2 (flat) switched network and a Layer 3 (hierarchical) switched network. Layer ...