TABLE OF CONTENTS Networks have been around for many years, long before the first home computer was ever designed or created. Other forms of networking have been around since the dawn of time. Today, designing, planning, implementing, deploying, and managing computer networks is somewhat of a never-ending journey into technology as it develops and integrates, standardizes and grows. It s amazing to see where computer networks are today from just 15 years ago. Now, more than ever, computer networks are relied upon to produce not only data in the form of files or connectivity to a printer for printing today, everything from surfing the Internet securely to making a call from New York to Tianjin, China over phone that solely works off the power of the network. Wired to wireless, satellites in the sky to home PC networks that allow 2 computers in your home to share the Internet at the same time. This is all done through networking. The wonderful world of networking is colorful, exciting, and is growing each and every day routers, switches, and other infrastructure devices are deployed every day from companies such as Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, and 3Com to name a few. So who deploys them? Who plans, designs, and leads the way for all of this equipment to be planned, purchased, implemented, and managed? Each and every day technology grows more and more complicated, and...
