These guides are really amazing and open your mind toward using the products in unexplored avenues.

1. FIVE BEST BOOKS FOR NETWORK
DESIGN ENGINEERS
 Offerilla  04:27  design engineers , network design , Wireless Routers
Everybody believes and says that books are your best friends and trust me, if you are on the
path doing something or anything into technical solutions arena. Definitely books are going
to be your best friend. I got lucky to read plenty of books and today I am sharing the list of
books which really added more than value to my knowledge and my life.
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2. Top Down Network Design
I would call this book as a starter before your main course but this book has the capabilities
to satisfy of your hunger for the Network Designing know­how.
This books tells you
everything about basic of network designing to advances of network designing, questions to
be asked before designing a solutions, formats to record the answers, ways to perform your
analysis and formats to record their answers to. I personally learnt solution designing from
this book. This book will truly serve you as a “Swiss Army Knife”
Optimal Routing Designs

3. I read a management book called “Good to Great by Jim Collins” and he said good is enemy
of great. In the similar way Sub­Optimal
is enemy of Optimal. Russ White had tried to put in
everything, what he could to explain the working of all of the routing protocols, various use
cases, there pros & cons and lot more. If you love playing with traffic and routing is your
passion. Trust Me, This book is going to your new Bible.
Definitive MPLS Network Designs
Definitive MPLS Network Designs provides examples of how to combine key technologies at

4. the heart of IP/MPLS networks. Techniques are presented through a set of comprehensive
design studies. Each design study is based on characteristics and objectives common to a
given profile of network operators having deployed MPLS and discusses all the corresponding
design aspects. Following these are details of all aspects of the network design, covering
VPN, QoS, TE, network recovery, and—where applicable—multicast, IPv6, and Pseudowire.
Building Resilient IP Networks
This book has everything to get you thinking & talking about Availability, Uptime, IP SLA,
Mission Critical Data, Quality of Service etc. Building Resilient IP Networks is relevant to both
enterprise and service provider customers of all sizes. Regardless of whether the network
connects to the Internet, fortifying IP networks for maximum uptime and prevention of
attacks is mandatory for anyone’s business.
Layer 2 VPN Architectures

5. Atom, L2TPv3, MPLS. LDP, ISP/CLEC, pseudowire etc. were the terms which use to scare me
prior to reading this book. This book has enormous potential to simplify complex
architectures and contains amazing case studies all Layer 2 technologies transported using
AToM and L2TPv3 pseudowires, including Ethernet, Ethernet VLAN, HDLC, PPP, Frame Relay,
ATM AAL5 and ATM cells, and advanced topics relevant to Layer 2 VPN deployment, such as
QoS and scalability.
Apart from all these books, one should always use SRND guides & product specific
solution guides provided by Cisco. These guides are really amazing and open your mind
toward using the products in unexplored avenues. Guys “sharing is caring”, Please
do share the names of the books which helped you enhance your skills.
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