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ShowCover.aspSecuring Cisco IP Telephony Networks

Author:  Akhil Behl

Softcover: 696 pages

Publisher:  Cisco Press (August 2012)

ISBN-10: 1-58714-295-3

ISBN-13: 978-1-58714-295-6

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Unleashing the Power of NetFlow and IPFIX; A Practical guide

book coverAuthor:  Michael Allen Patterson and seven contributors

Softcover:  155 pages

Publisher:  Plixer International, Inc. (2012)…

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IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straightforward Approach to Understanding IPv6

Author:  Rick Graziani

Softcover:  419 + xix pages

Publisher: Cisco Press (2012)

ISBN-13:  978-1-58714-313-7

ISBN-10: 1-58714-313-5

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Internet Telephony and the Future Voice Network

Author: William A. Flanagan

Paperback: 298 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN – 13: 978-1-118-01921-4
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NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching: Next-Generation Data Center Architectures

Authors: Kevin Corbin, Ron Fuller, and David Jansen
Softcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (July 2010)…

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Controller-Based Wireless LAN Fundamentals
Authors: Jeff Smith, Jake Woodhams, and Robert Marg

Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (October 2010)
ISBN – 10: 1-58705-825-1
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The Telecom Bookshelf

October 25, 2011 // Books, Ray Horak

There have been thousands of books written about telecom over the last 135 years or so. Some of those books are thoroughly researched and well …

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Author: Chris Jackson

Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (June 2010)
ISBN – 10: 1-58705-352-7
ISBN – 13: 978-1-58705-352-8
List Price: $70.00; Amazon: $51.49

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Thesaurus of Claim Construction

Authors: Robert C. Kahrl and Stuart B. Soffer

Paperback: 1030 pages

Publisher: Oxford University

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Authors: Shannon McFarland, Muninder Sambi, Nikhil Sharma, and Sanjay Hooda

Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (April 2011)
ISBN – 10: 1-58714-227-9
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Authors:  Tim Szigeti, Kevin McMenamy, Roland Saville, Alan Glowacki
Softcover:  592 + xxiv pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (2009)
ISBN-13:  978-1-58705-593-5
List Price: $60.00

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Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks (SWITCH)
Authors: Richard Froom, Balaji Sivasubramanian, and Erum Frahim

Hardcover: 560 pages
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Internet Technologies Handbook

Author: Mark Miller

Paperback: 955 pages

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience (April 13, 2004)

ISBN-10: 0471480509

ISBN-13: 978-0471480501

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Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
Authors: Silvano Gal, Tommi Salli, and Roger Andersson
Softcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Cisco …

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Fax, Modem and Text for IP Telephony

Authors: David Hanes and Gonzalo Salguiero

Paperback: 600 pages

Publisher: Cisco Press (June 21, 2008)

ISBN-10: 1587052695

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Cisco Networking Simplified (Second Edition)
Authors:  Jim Doherty, Neil Anderson, and Paul Della Maggiora
Illustrator:  Nathan Clement
Softcover: 432 pages
Publisher:  Cisco Press (December 2007)…

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Securing the Borderless Network: Security for the Web 2.0 World
Author: Tom Gillis
Softcover: 168 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (March 2010)
ISBN – 10: 1-58714-129-9…

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Horak has created a full course in a single book that will give the reader more overall knowledge of telecommunications and data communications than most practitioners working in the field today.

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Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary
Author: Ray Horak
Paperback: 568 pages
Publisher: Webster’s New World (October, 2007)
ISBN-10: 047177457X
ISBN-13: 978-0471774570
List Price: $29.99

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Cisco Unified Presence Fundamentals provides an excellent overview.

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There are a lot of good books on the subject of fiber optics. The vast majority of them are highly technical and written by and for engineers or physicists. When it comes to books written for technicians the pickings are slim.

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Videoconferencing is one of the most rapidly developing technologies and certainly an attractive and compelling network application. The benefits include enhanced communications and collaboration, increased productivity, reduced travel and associated costs, and shortened time to decision.

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Passive Optical Network (PON) network access technology was the subject of intense research for more than a decade before it finally emerged from the labs in 1998 in the form of a set of physical layer specifications for an ATM-based PON. That first specification was ratified by the ITU-T within the G.983.1 standard.

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This book appears to contain everything you could possibly want to know about Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) operations, signaling and management, excepting perhaps the individual bits in packet and label headers. There is so much here that it’s a good place to start a major study of the topic. Master this book and nobody will be able to bluff you when the talk turns techy.

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The case for IPv6 is compelling, including increased address space, ease of autoconfiguration and tight integration of mobility options. As IP networks evolve there is no doubt it eventually will replace IPv4. In fact many Asian nations are deploying it now, in large part to alleviate pressure on v4 address space caused by explosive growth of their mobile wireless networks.

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There is a lot of buzz around fixed mobile convergence (FMC) these days. As is often the case with a hot new concept, tens if not hundreds of industry experts have written many thousands if not a few million words on the subject, explaining the fundamentals and elaborating on the nuances.

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