Network Design Basics for Cabling Professionals

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO NETWORK CABLING DESIGN

Here is the most reliable, proven, and authoritative training material available for those wishing to make the career-enhancing jump from installing data systems to actually designing them. This heavily illustrated volume provides the time-tested methods and procedures you need to master the design and customization of network infrastructure plans capable of meeting a client's most exacting requirements.

BICSI's world-renowned official training material is based on Network Design Basics for Cabling Professionals so you know it has been successfully field-tested by network design professionals around the world. Clearly and simply written and presented in as easy-to-understand format, the hands-on guide:

• Provides valuable working knowledge of industry-standard practices
• Network components
• Network connections
• Networked communications
• Switching and Virtual LANs
• Services and applications
• Security
• Network management
• Offers vendor-neutral explanations of hardware and cabling technologies
• Thoroughly describes standards and topologies
• Breaks each task down into bulleted steps

Network Design Basics for Cabling Professionals offers the depth and breadth of coverage you would expect when two industry leaders such as McGraw-Hill and BICSI join forces--and expertise that cannot be found anywhere else.

BICSI has trained over 30,000 telecommunications cabling installers and designers and has a membership spanning 85 nations. Their resources include technical publications, training, conferences, and registration programs recognized worldwide as the standard for installation and design education in the telecommunications industry.