- Building
Switched Networks: Multilayer Switching, QoS, IP Multicast, Network Policy,
and Service-Level Agreements
- Darryl P. Black, Daryl Paul Black / Hardcover / Published 1999
 Building
Switched Networks provides a comprehensive, technical survey of the
networking technologies that comprise the core of evolving LAN and WAN
infrastructures. This book gives you essential background information, clear
descriptions of relevant technologies, and an understanding of how those
technologies will be employed throughout networks in the near future. In
particular, the text focuses on developments that support our increasing demand
for network bandwidth--multilayer switching, delivery guarantees, and
multicasting--and examines performance issues, resource allocation, network
policy, and network services.
Topics:
Virtual LANs and the 802.1Q and 802.1p standards Layer-2, Layer-3, and Layer-4
switching
The emerging Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) standard
Quality of Service (QoS), delivery guarantees based on specified parameters,
and resource management
Class of Service (COS) priority queuing techniques
IP multicast--a key technology for enabling networks to scale Service Level
Agreements (SLAs) that formalize service characteristics
Network Policy, with a discussion of Directory Enabled Networking (DEN) and
the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Emerging sophisticated network services made possible by the above
technologies, including Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)and Voice over IP (VoIP)
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- Supporting
Service Level Agreements on IP Networks
- Dinesh Verma / Hardcover / Published 1999 ---
 Service-Level
Agreement definition and deployment is a key issue for Internet Service
Providers (ISPs) and other network service providers as they construct a
quality of service architecture for IP networks. An essential resource for
network engineers and architects, Supporting Service-Level Agreements on IP
Networks will help you build a core network capable of supporting a range of
services, such as virtual private networks (VPNs), multicast traffic, and
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS). You'll also learn to create SLA
solutions using off-the-shelf components in both best-effort and DiffServ/IntServ
networks. See how to verify the performance of your SLA, as either a
customer or network services provider, and use SLA's to support IPv6
networks.
- Covers SLA support using network design, frame relay, and ATM
technologies
- Detailed discussion of the protocols and schemes being developed in
the IETF Differentiated Services and Integrated Services working groups
- Complete
Guide to IT Service Level Agreements: Matching Service Quality to Business
Needs (1999/2000 EDITION)
- Andrew Hiles / Paperback / Published 1999
- SLA
Framework CD-ROM: Service Level Agreements Framework
- Andrew Hiles / CD-ROM / Published 1999 (costs
a bunch but can save you a lot more... for established businesses and
consultants only).
consider these resources as well:
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- Designing
Distributed Applications With Xml : Asp Ie5 Ldap and Msmq
 Stephen
F. Mohr / Paperback / Published 1999 --- Using Stephen's 5 Principles of
Cooperative Network Application Development, you can create applications
that can promote themselves on the network, sharing data and logic with
clients of varying levels of sophistication. Using XML to define data
exchange in such a way that future applications will also be able to
negotiate an exchange format - even in the face of minor programming errors
or evolving data definitions. Using LDAP this can take place on a network
where we query for the services without knowing their location. The result
is a distributed computing environment that will remain robust while users
and resources are in flux.
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- Implementing
LDAP
 Mark
Wilcox / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1999 -- There is growing
interest in a standard way of providing access to personal information (e.g.
"white pages" data) and reducing the number of logon id's a user
is required to remember or administer. The LDAP (Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol) protocol is poised to be the solution to these problems.
Since the IETF recently approved the version 3 of the LDAP protocol it is
now really gaining steam as companies such as Sun, Novell and Microsoft are
making their proprietary networks available as LDAP servers. Netscape has
gone as far as to make LDAP (in the form of their Directory server) the
linchpin of their overall enterprise strategy. Since the first release of
Netscape Communicator and the version 3 of its servers, Netscape has
provided the ability to access a LDAP server. Netscape's LDAP API's is
derived from the original University of Michigan API and they have made the
source public on their mozilla.org site. This means that their API can be
used not only with Directory server, but any LDAP server. -- HEY
YOU'VE GOT TO GET THIS BOOK ... nuff said ...
- Ldap
: Programming Directory-Enabled Applications With Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol
- Tim Howes, Mark Smith / Paperback / Published 1997---Tim Howes's LDAP:
Programming Directory-Enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol is a very useful and (given the technical subject matter)
surprisingly readable guide to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP),
the preferred protocol for providing directory services on today's Internet.
The book provides a solid introduction to what LDAP is, including its
history and architecture, and then proceeds to cover LDAP API programming
via C and C++ in clear, discrete examples that range from simple searching
to filtering, reading, and updating LDAP directories. More advanced topics
include asynchronous LDAP programming with threads, as well as building a
command-line LDAP search utility. For programmers, this text is useful
because of its overall clarity, although it also covers some of the
specifics of developing in LDAP on Windows 95/NT, Macintosh, and UNIX.
Non-programmers will also find the chapters on using command-line versions
of LDAP (available in Netscape's implementation) to be very useful. The
authors even provide examples of programming LDAP utilities through
scripting in Perl, as LDAP applications can be prototyped using scripting
languages first, then coded in the actual API using C/C++. On the whole,
this is an exceptionally clear book that covers this valuable protocol
extremely well.
- Understanding
and Deploying LDAP Directory Services (MacMillan Network Architecture and
Development Series)
- Tim Howes, et al / Hardcover / Published 1999 --
TOP RANKED BOOK
 While
early directory standards (such as X.500) offer some cross-platform
functionality, none has the flexibility and widespread appeal of Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which is fast becoming a standard part of
networked computers. In Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory
Services, three experienced engineers share their knowledge of LDAP in
theory and practice, effectively defining this fast-emerging technology. If
you're planning to work with LDAP in any way--whether as a network manager,
a software developer, or an information technology administrator--you need
to read and pay attention to this book. It's the last word on LDAP as it
stands today.
Since directory services aren't widely understood, this book begins by
defining them and explaining what they can do for an organization. The guide
then gets into the specifics of how LDAP organizes directories and handles
queries. The authors go to great lengths to talk about what information to
put in directories, how to validate and maintain it, and how to manage
access to it. There's also lots of material on initiating LDAP services and
on troubleshooting.
The aft part of this book holds special appeal for software
developers, since it talks extensively about how to implement LDAP in
both new and existing software. Throughout, the authors pay special
attention to data redundancy, security, privacy, and the economic issues
involved in an LDAP deployment. The book's real-world focus is cemented by
case studies (both historical and semifictional). --David Wall, Amazon
Reviewer -- HEY
... IF you don't have this book, you won't accomplish as much as you
could otherwise ...and that's a long winded way of saying you'll
be $&^%$&^$.
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- LDAP
Programming : Directory Management and Integration
- Clayton Donley / Paperback / Published 2000
- LDAP
Programming with Java Technology
- Rob Weltman, Tony Dahbura / Hardcover / Published 2000
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