Network Design & Implementation Cycle

Ref : Top-Down Network Design (Priscilla Oppenheimer)

Network Design Steps

Phase 1 – Analyze Requirements
- Analyze business goals and constraints
- Analyze technical goals and tradeoffs
- Characterize the existing network
- Characterize network traffic

Phase 2 – Logical Network Design
- Design a network topology
- Design models for addressing and naming
- Select switching and routing protocols
- Develop network security strategies
- Develop network management strategies

Phase 3 – Physical Network Design
- Select technologies and devices for campus networks
- Select technologies and devices for enterprise networks

Phase 4 – Testing, Optimizing, and Documenting the Network Design
- Test the network design
- Optimize the network design
- Document the network design

Ref : Top-Down Network Design (Priscilla Oppenheimer)

CCDE Booklist

The following list is a compilation of recommended reading to assist in the preparation for the CCDE qualification exam. It is not required to read all of the books on this list.

•Routing TCP/IP, Volume 1, 2nd Edition

•Routing TCP/IP, Volume II

•MPLS and VPN Architectures, CCIP Edition

•MPLS Fundamentals

•Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation

•Definitive MPLS Network Designs

•Fault-Tolerant IP and MPLS Networks

•Traffic Engineering with MPLS

•QoS for IP/MPLS Networks

•Layer 2 VPN Architectures

•OSPF Network Design Solutions, 2nd Edition

•Optimal Routing Design

•BGP Design and Implementation

•Top-Down Network Design, 2nd Edition

•Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols

•End-to-End QoS Network Design

•IP Quality of Service

•Network Management Fundamentals

•Voice-Enabling the Data Network