As networks increase in size, powerful computers and sophisticated applications drive the need for greater network bandwidth, performance, and scalability. Users are concerned with sending and receiving data quickly and reliably.
This appendix first provides an overview of the routing and switching technologies. It then describes the routing and switching equipment selected and installed at Terra Flora, the fictitious case study described in Chapters 4 and 5 of this book, and gives the technical and business reasons for those choices.
Note Terra Flora is a totally fictitious corporation. The names of companies, products, people, characters, and data mentioned herein are fictitious and are in no way intended to represent any real individual, company, product, or event, unless otherwise noted.