Planning, Negotiating, Implementing, and Managing Wide Area Networks

Authors

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

Introduction

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.

Contents

Presents the concepts of the WAN design algorithms

Provides practical examples of algorithms and demonstrates how to deploy them

Discusses cases where the techniques described were deployed with favorable results

Discusses negotiating and managerial strategies

Presents a practical guide about how to implement and manage a large WAN