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Cisco's routers, hubs, and switches are the core of both the Internet and today's high-speed networks. To make sure you design the right high-speed network for your needs, you need High-Speed Cisco Networks. This book shows you how to:

• Sell advanced LAN/WAN technology and its benefits to upper management
  
• Make your department more productive using this technology
  
• Use advanced LAN/WAN technology in your organization
  
• Bring together an effective team to put advanced LAN/WAN technology to work
  
• Choose LAN/WAN hardware and software to best fit your needs and communications options to best suit your application
  
• Make advanced LAN/WAN technology successful in your organization and online
  
• Interface with management and users to develop workable systems
  
• Evaluate LAN/WAN software and the capability it offers for network application development
  
• Integrate remote data with data in the office
  High-Speed Cisco Networks lays out Cisco's complete line of products and describes the features and the best applications of each. Vacca provides exhausting, critical details on routers and servers, switches and hubs, security products, network management tools, ATM products, other services and programs, and Internetwork Operating Systems (IOS). Armed with this independent evaluation, you can use the rest of the book to design with confidence high-speed networks that both meet your current needs and scale to your future requirements.