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The All-New Switch Book: The Complete Guide to LAN Switching Technology | 
 enlarge | Authors: Rich Seifert, James Edwards
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $80.00
Buy New: $49.08
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 87796
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 816
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.4 x 2
ISBN: 0470287152
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
EAN: 9780470287156
ASIN: 0470287152
Publication Date: August 18, 2008
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Condition: Brand new book delivered from the UK in 10-14 days.
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Product Description
This much-needed update to the bestselling guide on the extensive changes to the local area networks (LAN) switching technologies explains why LAN switching technologies are critical to network design. This in-depth guide covers the capabilities, application, and design of LAN switches and switched internetworks and examines the significant changes that have taken place since the publication of the first edition seven years ago. You’re sure to appreciate the witty writing style and easy-to-follow format on such an often-complicated subject matter.
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 Great book, but needs some editing December 17, 2008
First of all, I love this book. It's well organized, an entertaining treatment of complex concepts, and a great way to get up to speed on how switches work within the context of recent history and the various standards.
But I've found what seems to me like an excessive number of typos in this new book. Mine is labeled as a Second Edition on the copyright page, but the little countdown numbers (which I think show the printing) go all the way from 10 down to 1 (so maybe it's a first printing).
They give an email to send errata to (and I've sent several - a quick check on outlook shows 7) and nobody has ever responded, so I'm not sure if they are really interested in fixing the problems or not.
In some cases, there were diagrams that were correct in the original book (at least the "books 24/7" version we have available online here), but are incorrect in the new book. (For example fig 9-8 on p. 376 has the Aggregator recieve queue (on the right) labeled as an Aggregator Transmit queue. Similar errors on page 372 and 373 in the Link Aggregation stuff. It looks like when they went to update to the new book, they failed to get the latest graphics files from the old book. There are also several internal references that don't match.
There are also section number references that are wrong (Page 36 has a reference to section 1.1.7.3 that should be 1.1.9.3, for example)
As far as I can tell, none of the typos are *real* serious, but I found the diagram errors (which went wrong from the original book) particularly troubling, as well as the lack of response from their email support address.
Apparently this review triggered a sideband contact to the author, who emailed me about the errors. Email was apparently piled up on the errata email address. They are working to make the corrections.
 Excellent Book November 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very good book about how switches work. It discusses, architecture, management, VLANs, spanning tree. Starts out basic and builds up on concepts explained in previous sections. It is very well written, easy to understand, nicely explained with good figures. I wish other authors would learn to write like Rich Seifert. Mostly geared towards how Ethernet switches work. Describes differences between bridges, switches and routers. I recommend you buy this book.
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