Planning, Negotiating, Implementing, and Managing Wide Area Networks

Luiz Augusto de Carvalho WANOPT Wide area network Specialist
Benjamin Naude Magna international

Telecommunications is usually responsible for a large percentage of the IT infrastructure costs, usually only surpassed by personnel. Therefore identifying savings, even small in terms of percentage in a large corporate network may mean hundreds of thousands of dollars per month.

The techniques described in this book already helped and continuous helping hundreds of organizations to save millions of dollars with their telecommunications infra-structures.

ContentsPresents the concepts of the WAN design algorithmsProvides practical examples of algorithms and demonstrates how to deploy themDiscusses cases where the techniques described were deployed with favorable resultsDiscusses negotiating and managerial strategiesPresents a practical guide about how to implement and manage a large WAN