Building Service Provider Networks

To be competitive, service providers cannot customize every installation but must simultaneously offer services that meet a wide range of perceived customer needs. This guide shows commercial service providers and equipment vendors how to build competitive service offerings for enterprise-specific needs.

In general, the book is organized into three main parts. Chapters 1 through 5 deal with defining customer requirements and the abstract provider architecture. Chapters 6 through 8 deal with building and extending carrier facilities and transmission systems. Chapters 9 through 13 deal with the intelligent communications systems overlaid onto the physical structures, which to varying extents involve Internet Protocol (IP)–based control planes, and possibly IP forwarding.

This book focuses on the service provider network, and ideally will be read in concern with the more customer-oriented WAN Survival Guide. It is not aimed at protocol implementers, although it does present alternatives between techniques in development. If a reader finishes the book and is disappointed that he or she did not become utterly familiar with bit-level techniques, I have succeeded in my goals! There are many excellent sources for dealing with protocol mechanics, but a shortage of sources for pinning down problems and selecting solutions.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - What Is the Problem to Be Solved?
Chapter 02 - The Service Provider Landscape
Chapter 03 - Services, Service Level Agreements, and Delivering Service
Chapter 04 - Translating Service Definitions to Technical Requirements
Chapter 05 - Administration, Addressing, and Naming
Chapter 06 - Carrier Facilities
Chapter 07 - The Provider Edge: Layer 1, Layer 2, and the PSTN
Chapter 08 - Transporting the Bits
Chapter 09 - Basic BGP and the Customer Side of Exterior Routing
Chapter 10 - Subscriber to Provider, and Subscriber to Subscriber Edge
Chapter 11 - The Intraprovider Core
Chapter 12 - The Provider-to-Provider Border
Chapter 13 - VPNs and Related Services

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