Juniper Networks(R) Field Guide and Reference by Aviva Garrett

Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #54684 in Books
Published on: 2002-10-21
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
912 pages
Editorial Reviews

Book Info
Guide condenses thousands of pages of manuals, tech notes, and engineering resources into a single book. Provides information hand-picked and edited by the person responsible for documenting all Juniper technologies. Softcover.

From the Back Cover

Juniper Networks® creates and deploys high-performance routing platforms used by many of the world's largest service providers. Written by the leading experts and technical writers at Juniper Networks, the Juniper Networks® Field Guide and Reference is the definitive practical guide and reference to Juniper Networks hardware and software. This comprehensive book culls and condenses nearly six thousand pages of technical documentation, field alerts, technical FAQs, and more into a single convenient and accessible resource. It provides essential information for anyone designing, building, installing, configuring, and operating scalable IP networks.

You will find in-depth information about JUNOS™ software, Juniper Networks routers, system management, interfaces, security, and VPNs. All the latest Juniper Networks technologies and releases are covered, including JUNOS 5.4, the T640 routing node and the T320 router, and all M-series routers. Other topics covered include:
Router architecture and hardware components, including the T-series routing platforms and M-series routers
CLI configuration and system management with SNMP
Router interfaces, including Ethernet, SONET/SDH, tunnel, and channelized interfaces
Class of service (CoS)
IP Security (IPSec)
Routing policy and firewall filters
Routing protocols, including IS-IS, OSPF, RIP, BGP, PIM, DVMRP, IGMP, SAP, SDP, MSDP, and multicast scoping
IPv6, including IPv4-to-IPv6 transition mechanisms
Various MPLS applications
Virtual Private Networks, covering Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs

In addition, this pragmatic guide features sample configurations that come directly from the Juniper Networks testing labs, as well as a summary of all the critical JUNOS software monitoring commands.

Whether you work with Juniper Networks products as a network engineer, administrator, or operator—or if you are just interested in learning how to build scalable multivendor IP networks—you will want to keep this thorough resource close at hand.


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About the Author

Aviva Garrett is the Director of Technical Publications at Juniper Networks. With coauthors Cris Morris and Gary Drenan, Aviva edited the work of the dozens of Juniper Networks writers, editors, and engineers who contributed to the Juniper Networks® Field Guide and Reference, the authorized Juniper Networks field manual.

Gary Drenan is Senior Technical Writer at Juniper Networks. With coauthors Aviva Garrett and Cris Morris, Gary edited the work of the dozens of Juniper Networks writers, editors, and engineers who contributed to the Juniper Networks® Field Guide and Reference, the authorized Juniper Networks field manual.

Cris Morris is Senior Editing Manager at Juniper Networks. With coauthors Aviva Garrett and Gary Drenan, Cris edited the work of the dozens of Juniper Networks writers, editors, and engineers who contributed to the Juniper Networks® Field Guide and Reference, the authorized Juniper Networks field manual.


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Customer Reviews

Out of Date But Still Largely Relevant and Useful
Juniper has a chunk of what once was Cisco's core routing business, but it has a very small fraction of published pages in this area. This book is from 2002 and is still one of only a handful of books available on the M and T Series in the service provider space. It also refers to a lot of obsolete products (M5, M10, M40 and the infamous M160). Even with that, and the fact that it's kind of a "meta documentation" book rather than a case study guide or design reference as Cisco might put out, this is still a pretty useful book.

JUNOS and its many advantages over IOS (way more stable and secure, typically higher performing, commit/rollback capabilities, far better high availability features) are not that different than what they were three years ago, and this book explains them quite well. The architecture of Juniper routers is also the same, both in terms of the separate routing and packet forwarding engines, and the midplane design of the hardware with port interface cards (PICs) and flexible PIC concentrators (FPC).

In a sense, it's more likely that a single Juniper book can cover a variety of platforms over the course of several years than it would be for Cisco. The upgrade procedures for Juniper are far simpler, and there is only a single code train for all platforms, whereas figuring out how to pick the right version of IOS can be quite a chore.

Still, there are a lot of Juniper enhancements that are not covered here and that really should be available in something more than the online docs. For instance, VPLS completely antedates this book, and Juniper's MPLS support includes some a very nice enhancement to RSVP (e.g., the point to multipoint LSP) which outdoes anything Cisco has for transmitting broadcast video across backbone networks. Also, the E Series for broadband aggregation and service routing is not mentioned at all. Finally, the products that came from the NetScreen acquisition offer some unique power and flexibility in terms of being able to set up managed services; this should be covered in a follow-on volume as well.

But the good news is that (due to Juniper's consistency) the current material is valid and will be helpful for current M and T series routers. Although the configuration snippets throughout the book are mostly documentation syntax (instead of real examples), there is an extensive configurations chapter for ATM, BGP, ISIS, and Layer 3 MPLS VPNs. So I'd give the book three stars, though when it came out it would have been four. Still, it's time for someone to start publishing some service provider oriented books that explain how to configure revenue-generating services for network operators that have been hung out to dry by Cisco's "Love the Internet whether it makes you profitable or not" philosophy.

Excellent precis of Juniper's documentation
This book serves as an excellent precis of the full JUNOS and Juniper hardware documentation set. Written by senior staff in Juniper's own technical publications team, it is sufficiently small for a field engineer to have on hand when working in the field and sufficiently detailed that a user can configure most features without referring to any other documentation.

For those looking for in depth reviews of how the protocols work, this isn't the book you want (there are numerous books providing the gory details of all the protocol behaviour). If you just want to know how to build, operate and troubleshoot a Juniper network, this is the book you need.