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Summary: a must have for all noc's!!!
Review: an excellent book for an indepth understanding of routing protocols with emphasis on bgp & mpls, basically stuff from an isp's prespective. don't worry too much on typo's and spelling mistakes(found only in chapter 6), this book is techincally sound overall.gives a lot of references to rfc's, has a lot of examples & real life scenario's....read it to believe it
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Summary: Excellent review of JUNOS and great ref on integrated ISIS
Review: As others have pointed out you can read the Juniper technical publications and IETF drafts and RFCs instead of this book. I find that opinion interesting since almost ALL technical books dealing with IP technology one could say the same and they all heavily borrow from the actual RFCs/drafts. My point is, this book is no different than other books in it's field meaning you could read a volume of books/publications that has 10,000's of pages stacked on your floor or you could get a condensed version of all that by reading The complete ref for Juniper Networks Routers. What you won't get in the IETF drafts/RFC's and Juniper technical publications is the step by step how-to reference on setting up the various configs using JUNOS along with a description of what is occurring. You also are not sickened with any idiotic marketing hype that is always in Cisco IOS books which makes one wonder who wrote them (marketing or an actual engineer). Pretty much they give you a straightforward guide on how to setup JUNOS without a bunch of fluff. It's a great reference on JUNOS overall and probably the BEST (far better than Doyle's IOS chapter on ISIS) reference on integrated ISIS outside of reading the ISO specs (which can be annoying to read compared to an RFC!!!).
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Being the first approved book from Juniper I was eager to read the book. The good news is that there is alot of book here, the bad news is there are like twelve authors and you can tell that while reading the book, one chapter has a different voice from another which makes reading it very disconcerting. Its like they had a techie do the grammar. The extent of grammtical and simple errors would make my High School english teacher weep. I truly expected more from such a book, it made reading very difficult and aggravating as I had to reread sections to try and decipher what the bad grammar was saying. The truly disturbing part though is the use of other vendor's diagrams and cut and pasting of RFCs into the book without proper acknowledgements. I understand that many technical discussions need to reference the RFC but for goodness sake make your own drawings and give credit to the RFC as appropriate. Technically the book is okay, nothing earth shattering is revealed that is not present in the Juniper documentation, although, you would expect more considering the authors and the endorsement by Juniper. Overall I was excited to get the book and disappointed by the time I finished it.
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Summary: A reference guide that Juniper junior operators must have
Review: From system architecture to system processes, from basic routing protocol to MPLS VPN, and the protocol theory to case-study.
This book contains all the junior Juniper system administrator needs, especially who was familiar with the Cisco devices. Easy reading and no vendor ads ! Unlike other Cisco technical books, it just discribe the routing protocol theory, and tell you what a Juniper can do. The Cisco books always tell you what a Cisco product can do, but never tell you what is RFC compatible devices must have, and what portion is the Cisco enhanced feature. If you hate to read all the Juniper's manuals, documents & white papers. Another choice is to buy a reference book like this.
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Summary: It is very nice book!
Review: If you want to know all about Juniper's routers you should read this book.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Seeing that Juniper was banking on the name of Jeff Doyle to get this book to sell, I had expected much better. Unfortunately this book resembles a hurriedly baked semi-cooked apple pie [some of the authors must have delayed writing until the very last moment]. As another reviewer pointed out this book suffers from "too many cooks spoil the broth". The chapter on RIP was good [written by Jeff Doyle], but is followed by OSPF theory [English appears to be the author's second or third language; which makes for a lot of head scratching and referencing other books to make sense of things]. Overall I can safely say that the book was an attempt in the right direction and would have fared much better had Juniper's documentation department not rushed it out and had sitten with the authors and atleast taken one good look at the book before it went to the publishers. This could have avoided gaffes like on page 551 the figure of IS-IS PDU type has nothing in it!! A cheaper option would be to study the protocol basics from better books and then use juniper's documentation to configure your routers.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: With an author like Jeff Doyle (cisco press legend) seemingly at the helm, i had high hopes for this book. But alas, this book is, well....[junk]. Download the PDF's from the juniper site and you will have all the information you need. For protocol specific info - read the RFC's or something from cisco.
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