Designing Switch/Routers

This book focuses more on the design goals (i.e., a switch/router's key features), architectures, and practical applications of switch/routers in IP networks. The discussion includes some practical design examples to illustrate how switch/routers are designed and how the key features are implemented. Designing Switch/Routers: Architectures and Applications explains the design and architectural considerations, as well as the typical processes and steps used to build practical switch/routers. The author describes the components of a switch/router that are used in configuring, managing, and monitoring it. This book discusses the advantages of using Ethernet in today's networks and why Ethernet continues to play a bigger role in Local Area Network (LAN), Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), and Wide Area Network (WAN) design. He also explains typical networking applications of switch/routers, particularly, in enterprise and Internet service provider (ISP) networks. This book provides a discussion of the design of switch/routers and is written in a style to appeal to undergraduate and graduate-level students, engineers, and researchers in the networking and telecoms industry, as well as academics and other industry professionals. The material and discussion are structured in such a way that it could serve as standalone teaching material for networking and telecom courses and/or supplementary material for such courses.