Network Recovery : Protection and Restoration of Optical, SONET-SDH, IP, and MPLS

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Summary: Excellent, pioneer book!!!
Review: I bought this book before it was available for shipping, and eagerly waited for its arrival. I am an assistant professor in the networking area, and this book will be useful for my courses as well as for my research in network recovery. The book has detailed information about the topic, and it presents so with the right balance of overview info (which can be skipped by the reader who is familiar with IP, MPLS, SONET, and optical networks and wants to learn more about protection and recovery mechanisms). The way the book is organized also allows you to read exactly what you are interested in, the several case studies and examples are extremely helpful as well as the simulation results presented. I will definitely be using portions of this book in my networking related courses. The practical examples provide for an opportunity to study real scenarios, which are not always available to students, and are crucial to learning and developing novel applied research solutions.

I highly recommend this book for readers that are looking into understanding design and implementation issues, existing solutions, and also some of the open research topics. This is indeed the first book that explains network recovery in such detail and it will be very helpful whether you are researching the topic, teaching, or planning on deploying a solution.

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Summary: Exactly what I needed!!!
Review: This book is a fine reference to computer scientists who wish to understand the protection and restoration background of different networking techniques such as SONET-SDH, IP and MPLS. This book is also a unique exemplar in the field of network recovery which strengthens its position further. It is well written and easy understandable.

I found a very good introduction in each chapter in the book. Each theoretical section is followed by examples that makes the subject more understandable.

I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: A must have reference book for any serious network architect
Review: WOW. This is an amazing collection of information on the subject matter. Very well written. Detailed yet easy to understand explanation of technologies and concepts. It will definitely become my reference for the recovery aspect of future network architectures.