From: Kris Foster (kris@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Apr 28 2001 - 01:14:37 GMT-3
In a BGP class last fall with Galina she shot down a couple techs from C&W
for a comment like that. The US seems to still love the idea of two
networks, one for voice and one for data.. MPLS is not the glue to fix
it.
Kris,
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Raymond Cheung wrote:
> If you are interested in MPLS, take a look at MPLS VPN Architecture from
> Cisco Press.
> I truely believe ATM infrastructure is getting less popular these years, so
> is this book.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Pickell, Aaryn
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 9:07 PM
> To: 'Ken Yeo'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: ATM BOOK : Galina Diker Pildush : CISCO ATM Solutions:
> Master ATM Implementation of Cisco Networks
>
>
> I just read that book, and based on its contents, I passed the Campus ATM
> test today. (Check the new letters after my name.)
>
> It's fairly comprehensive, but I think it's a little out of date. There is
> no mention of putting LS1010 blades in a Cat5500, though they hit that a bit
> on the test. For example.
>
> I didn't really like the format of having several chapters on theory and
> then chapters on configuration later on. It got very difficult to stay
> interested when it was just lines of config. But, it's well written beyond
> that, and tries very hard to make a very dry topic seem just a little bit
> interesting. It has some success, though that's a tough job.
>
> The only thing that I think it lacked was any kind of discussion of MPLS
> and/or tag switching. It had about one page early on that only mentions
> that it exists, but goes into no details on it afterwards. That didn't
> really hurt me on the test, though. It does go into the theory of ATM,
> CLIP, LANE, MPOA, etc. Then it gets into PNNI, IISP, addressing, etc.
> Finally, it gets into router configuration, LS1010 configuration, and a lot
> of hardware specs for almost all of the ATM capable equipment that Cisco
> sells. This part may be a bit out of date, but there was so much
> information there, I didn't notice that there could have been more, except
> for the Cat5500 stuff.
>
> Aaryn Pickell - CCNP ATM, CCDP, MCSE
> Senior Engineer - Routing Protocols
> Getronics Inc.
> Direct: 713-394-1609
> Email:aaryn.pickell@getronics.com
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Yeo [mailto:kenyeo@email.com]
> > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 6:57 PM
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: ATM BOOK : Galina Diker Pildush : CISCO ATM Solutions: Master
> > ATM Implementation of Cisco Networks
> >
> >
> > What do you guys think about this book?
> >
> >
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