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Title: Cisco WAN Quick Start by Ronald W. McCarty, Cisco Systems Inc. ISBN: 1-57870-104-X Publisher: Cisco Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Needs a little work and updating - but should help you pass.
Comment: I passed the CCNA exam over a year ago and since that time I have been working with routers both as a network administrator and an instructor. Recently I worked with someone looking to connect all his WAN location with switches and I finally found a book, the only book to cover this are. Naturally Cisco Press was the publisher.

Covering Exam 640-410, CCNA WanSw, the book does a fairly good job of breaking down the exam and the objectives. In Part I, the Quick Start, you cover topics like Serial communications, narrow and broadband including J1, T1, Y1, DS3, E3 and SONET circuits, digital voice. Also Frame Relay with DLCI, IARP and NNI is covered.

Finally the section breaks down ATM and cell technology, IP addressing in both the classless and classful environments. With Part II, the installation of the switches, the 8400, 8600, 8550 and 8220 are the primary focus.

Wan switching topologies and technologies like flat, tiered and structured topologies are tackled first. Then you move onto IGX and BGX switches, troubleshooting and the alarms sections. Overall the book does cover the exam but there is very little coverage of the commands needed or no practice exam questions on a cd-rom.

Since this the only choice out there you do need this and I think it will help greatly but updates are needed.

Rating: 3
Summary: useful - but no way near authoritive
Comment: This book deals with IGX/BPX/MGX equipment that is used to build WAN cloud. Part I deal in general with the technologies and characteristics of Frame-relay, ATM, voice, T1, T3 etc, Part II show you the hardware installation, configuration, and a bit of troubleshooting. What I find is: - Part I cover Frame-relay, serial comm, narrowband transmission quite well, but not so good on broadband, voice, and I afraid totally failed to teach in ATM chapters. I think you have to refer to other books if you really really want to know any of the 7 chapters well. - Part II did not connect well with part I very well. Part II start off with hardware installation and configuration which you can download from Cisco Web product documentation - but the book of course some time has a little bit more information. It also list all the modules and card that you can use in each box. Then it show you how to do initial and network configuration. Very basic, and after reading the whole book I still do not know how does IGX/BPX switch or route a data - do they keep some kind of a switching/routing table - how do I view this table? It was never explained. Also, although we know from the book that BPX used ATM cell on the trunk - the IGX/BPX configuration portion never mention anythink about ATM configuration - and I missing something here? - The last chapter on Network Alarm and troubleshooting is quite useful. All in all, if you are the project leader of a WAN switching project, this book is not going to get you through. If you are just helping along, this book does help. But there appears to be no other book in this category.

Rating: 3
Summary: Sadly there is very little choice for the CCNA WAN Switching
Comment: Part I of the book gives a good grounding in WAN technology. However, Part II can be inconsistent, providing varying levels of detail across the various products. Some WAN concepts are assumed knowledge, which isn't helpful if you are new to the area or come from a LAN background.

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