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Summary: A VERY GOOD BOOK!
Review: If you are working with Cisco switches or prepare for CCNP, CCIE exams, this book is a must-own! The authors cover switching in great detail. I took the CLSC class but still find this book extremely useful. Highly recommend!
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Summary: It belongs on your bookshelf
Review: If you need to know about LAN switch technology this is what you need. It's a big book because they don't skip anything, but because of the clarity of explanation the pages just fly by.
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Summary: Great Great Book - Go get it
Review: If you really want to learn Cisco switching stuff, make sure you have this title. It explains everything in detail with respect to Cisco LAN switches. Nice coverage on Catalyst 6x00 switches.Happy reading.
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Summary: Good Content--Some mistakes
Review: In following the tradition of Cisco Press, "Cisco LAN Switching" has excellent technical content. I did, however, find a few technical and several spelling/grammar errors. The writers' style is more difficult to read than is Jeff Doyle's, though the content difficulty is comparable. Perhaps the second edition will fix the errors...
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Summary: Deserves every 5-star rating!
Review: Man, this is one great book! Clark and Hamilton are just awesome! This book EASILY prepared me for the BCMSN exam, even though it's not a test prep book! It covers the technology so well that you will pass the exam because you know the content so well. This book is easy to read. The authors mixed theory and experience in just the right amounts and threw in some humor as a bonus. I believe someone with a true command of the subject will be able to relay it to others in the simplest of terms. That's what this book accomplishes: it takes very detailed technical subjects and makes them understandable for everybody. Great Job!
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Summary: THE Cisco Switching BIBLE!
Review: Never before have I seen such a concise, complete, authoritative volume on Cisco switching. The coverage of Spanning Tree is the most complete I have been able to find yet, unmatched by even the other Cisco Press books with in-depth info I havn't seen published elsewhere. I used this to prepare for the CLSC exam and was pleasantly surprised by the sheer amount of relevant knowledge I was able to gain not only for the exam but for my day-to-day work as well. Now I just need to figure out what to do with all these other switching books, highly recommended, an absolute must-have!
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Summary: An excellent book on Cisco LAN Switching.
Review: Outstanding. The whole book is good, but I especially liked the excellent coverage of Spanning Tree. This thorough coverage is long overdue in print! The network design and L3 switching sections are also very good. -CCIE
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Summary: A truly EXCELLENT book--long overdue in the industry!
Review: The authors have a gift for taking complex subjects that are often badly treated elsewhere and explaining them in easy to understand terms. The chapters on spanning tree are the best I've seen. The chapter on LANE is brilliant. I admit that I'm biased since I work with Kennedy and Kevin at Chesapeake, but regardless, this is an excellent book, a must have.
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Summary: Spanning Tree, LANE, VTP?
Review: These questions and many more will definitely be answered by reading this book. The CCIE's did a excellent job presenting difficult material such as BPDUs; making it understandable. Before this book alot of this information had to be researched at cisco.com for hours. A thorough explaination of layer 2 technologies from TB to SR/TLB and how they inter-operate. Highly recommend this book for CCNP and CCIE candidates.
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Summary: The BEST networking book I've ever read
Review: This book explains in detail network design issues that every network manager needs to know. The author does a fantastic job of teaching complex networking concepts in a way that's easy to understand without being condescending. After all, network design and maintenance is NOT for dummies. This book cuts through lots of marketing buzz words and explains what really works and does not work in a scalable, manageable, reliable network.
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