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CHAPTER
Introduction 1-1
1
Introduction
Internetworking—the communication between two or more networks—encompasses every aspect
of connecting computers together. Internetworks have grown to support vastly disparate
end-system communication requirements. An internetwork requires many protocols and features to
permit scalability and manageability without constant manual intervention. Large internetworks can
consist of the following three distinct components:
• Campus networks, which consist of locally connected users in a building or group of buildings
• Wide-area networks (WANs), which connect campuses together
• Remote connections, which link branch offices and single users (mobile users and/or
telecommuters) to a local campus or the Internet
Figure 1-1 provides an example of a typical enterprise internetwork.
Figure 1-1 Example of a typical enterprise internetwork.
Designing an internetwork can be a challenging task. To design reliable, scalable internetworks,
network designers must realize that each of the three major components of an internetwork have
distinct design requirements. An internetwork that consists of only 50 meshed routing nodes can
pose complex problems that lead to unpredictable results. Attempting to optimize internetworks that
feature thousands of nodes can pose even more complex problems.
Switch
Switch
WAN
Switch
LAN
Site 2
LAN
Site 1
WAN
WAN
CampusCampus
Host A
Host B
Router A Router B
Designing Campus Networks
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Despite improvements in equipment performance and media capabilities, internetwork design is
becoming more difficult. The trend is toward increasingly complex environments involving multiple
media, multiple protocols, and interconnection to networks outside any single organization’s
dominion of control. Carefully designing internetworks can reduce the hardships associated with
growth as a networking environment evolves.
This chapter provides an overview of the technologies available today to design internetworks.
Discussions are divided into the following general topics:
• Designing Campus Networks
• Designing WANs
• Utilizing Remote Connection Design
• Providing Integrated Solutions
• Determining Your Internetworking Requirements
Designing Campus Networks
A campus is a building or group of buildings all connected into one enterprise network that consists
of many local area networks (LANs). A campus is generally a portion of a company (or the whole
company) constrained to a fixed geographic area, as shown in Figure 1-2.
Figure 1-2 Example of a campus network.
The distinct characteristic of a campus environment is that the company that owns the campus
network usually owns the physical wires deployed in the campus. The campus network topology is
primarily LAN technology connecting all the end systems within the building. Campus networks
generally use LAN technologies, such as Ethernet, Token Ring, Fiber Distributed Data Interface
(FDDI), Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).
Token
Ring
Switch
WAN
Building A
Building B
Building C
Token
Ring
Router
Router
Router
Introduction 1-3
Trends in Campus Design
A large campus with groups of buildings can also use WAN technology to connect the buildings.
Although the wiring and protocols of a campus might be based on WAN technology, they do not
share the WAN constraint of the high cost of bandwidth. After the wire is installed, bandwidth is
inexpensive because the company owns the wires and there is no recurring cost to a service provider.
However, upgrading the physical wiring can be expensive.
Consequently, network designers generally deploy a campus design that is optimized for the fastest
functional architecture that runs on existing physical wire. They might also upgrade wiring to meet
the requirements of emerging applications. For example, higher-speed technologies, such as Fast
Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and ATM as a backbone architecture, and Layer 2 switching provide
dedicated bandwidth to the desktop.
Trends in Campus Design
In the past, network designers had only a limited number of hardware options—routers or
hubs—when purchasing a technology for their campus networks. Consequently, it was rare to make
a hardware design mistake. Hubs were for wiring closets and routers were for the data center or main
telecommunications operations.
Recently, local-area networking has been revolutionized by the exploding use of LAN switching at
Layer 2 (the data link layer) to increase performance and to provide more bandwidth to meet new
data networking applications. LAN switches provide this performance benefit by increasing
bandwidth and throughput for workgroups and local servers. Network designers are deploying LAN
switches out toward the network’s edge in wiring closets. As Figure 1-3 shows, these switches are
usually installed to replace shared concentrator hubs and give higher bandwidth connections to the
end user.
Figure 1-3 Example of trends in campus design.
Layer 3 networking is required in the network to interconnect the switched workgroups and to
provide services that include security, quality of service (QoS), and traffic management. Routing
integrates these switched networks, and provides the security, stability, and control needed to build
functional and scalable networks.
ATM campus
switch
Cisco router
Shared hub
Multilayer switch
(Layers 2 and 3)
LAN switch (Layer 2)
Hub
CDDI/FDDI
concentrator
Shared hub
The new backbone
The new wiring closet
Traditional backbone
Traditional wiring closet
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Designing WANs
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Traditionally, Layer 2 switching has been provided by LAN switches, and Layer 3 networking has
been provided by routers. Increasingly, these two networking functions are being integrated into
common platforms. For example, multilayer switches that provide Layer 2 and 3 functionality are
now appearing in the marketplace.
With the advent of such technologies as Layer 3 switching, LAN switching, and virtual LANs
(VLANs), building campus networks is becoming more complex than in the past. Table 1-1
summarizes the various LAN technologies that are required to build successful campus networks.
Cisco Systems offers product solutions in all of these technologies.
Table 1-1 Summary of LAN Technologies
Network designers are nowdesigningcampus networksbypurchasing separate equipment types (for
example, routers, Ethernet switches, and ATM switches) and then linking them together. Although
individual purchase decisions might seem harmless, network designers must not forget that the entire
network forms an internetwork.
It is possible to separate these technologies and build thoughtful designs using each new technology,
but network designers must consider the overall integration of the network. If this overall integration
is not considered, the result can be networks that have a much higher risk of network outages,
downtime, and congestion than ever before.
Designing WANs
WAN communication occurs between geographically separated areas. In enterprise internetworks,
WANs connect campuses together. When a local end station wants to communicate with a remote
end station (an end station located at a different site), information must be sent over one or more
WAN links. Routers within enterprise internetworks represent the LAN/WAN junction points of an
internetwork. These routers determine the most appropriate path through the internetwork for the
required data streams.
WAN links are connected by switches, which are devices that relay information through the WAN
and dictate the service provided by the WAN. WAN communication is often called a service because
the network provider often charges users for the services provided by the WAN (called tariffs). WAN
services are provided through the following three primary switching technologies:
LAN Technology Typical Uses
Routing technologies Routing is a key technology for connecting LANs in a campus network. It can be
either Layer 3 switching or more traditional routing with Layer 3 switching and
additional router features.
Gigabit Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet builds on top of the Ethernet protocol, but increases speed ten-fold
over Fast Ethernet to 1000 Mbps, or 1 Gbps. Gigabit Ethernet provides high
bandwidth capacity for backbone designs while providing backward compatibility for
installed media.
LAN switching technologies
• Ethernet switching
• Token Ring switching
Ethernet switching provides Layer 2 switching, and offers dedicated Ethernet
segments for each connection. This is the base fabric of the network.
Token Ring switching offers the same functionality as Ethernet switching, but uses
Token Ring technology. You can use a Token Ring switch as either a transparent
bridge or as a source-route bridge.
ATM switching technologies ATM switching offers high-speed switching technology for voice, video, and data. Its
operation is similar to LAN switching technologies for data operations. ATM,
however, offers high bandwidth capacity.
Introduction 1-5
Trends in WAN Design
• Circuit switching
• Packet switching
• Cell switching
Each switching technique has advantages and disadvantages. For example, circuit-switched
networks offer users dedicated bandwidth that cannot be infringed upon by other users. In contrast,
packet-switched networks have traditionally offered more flexibility and used network bandwidth
more efficiently than circuit-switched networks. Cell switching, however, combines some aspects of
circuit and packet switching to produce networks with low latency and high throughput. Cell
switching is rapidly gaining in popularity. ATM is currently the most prominent cell-switched
technology. For more information on switching technology for WANs and LANs, see Chapter 2,
“Internetworking Design Basics.”
Trends in WAN Design
Traditionally, WAN communication has been characterized by relatively low throughput, high delay,
and high error rates. WAN connections are mostly characterized by the cost of renting media (wire)
from a service provider to connect two or more campuses together. Because the WAN infrastructure
is often rented from a service provider, WAN network designs must optimize the cost of bandwidth
and bandwidth efficiency. For example, all technologies and features used to connect campuses over
a WAN are developed to meet the following design requirements:
• Optimize WAN bandwidth
• Minimize the tariff cost
• Maximize the effective service to the end users
Recently, traditional shared-media networks are being overtaxed because of the following new
network requirements:
• Necessity to connect to remote sites
• Growing need for users to have remote access to their networks
• Explosive growth of the corporate intranets
• Increased use of enterprise servers
Network designers are turning to WAN technology to support these new requirements. WAN
connections generally handle mission-critical information, and are optimized for price/performance
bandwidth. The routers connecting the campuses, for example, generally apply traffic optimization,
multiple paths for redundancy, dial backup for disaster recovery, and QoS for critical applications.
Table 1-2 summarizes the various WAN technologies that support such large-scale internetwork
requirements.
Table 1-2 Summary of WAN Technologies
WAN Technology Typical Uses
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line A new modem technology. Converts existing twisted-pair telephone
lines into access paths for multimedia and high-speed data
communica- tions. ADSL transmits more than 6 Mbps to a
subscriber, and as much as 640 kbps more in both directions.
Analog modem Analog modems can be used by telecommuters and mobile users
who access the network less than two hours per day, or for backup
for another type of link.
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