CLSC Exam Certification Guide is a comprehensive preparation tool for the CLSC exam (#640-404) and Foundation Routing and Switching exam (#640-409). Coverage of all CLSC exam objectives ensures readers will arrive at a complete understanding of the exam topics. This title reviews the main features of the Catalyst family of switches and the placement, configuration, and troubleshooting of switched LAN networks. Chapters in this book follow a logical organization of the CLSC exam objectives, and readers can streamline their preparation through the assessment and review features in each chapter. In-depth scenarios provide a battery of challenging questions, and the accompanying CD allows readers to build random practice exams or to study with flash cards. CLSC Exam Certification Guide pulls together the breadth of exam material, enabling readers to achieve mastery of exam objectives.

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CCIE Professional Development: Large-Scale IP Network Solutions is a core textbook for preparation for the CCIE Routing and Switching exam track. As well as CCIE preparation, Large-Scale IP Network Solutions provides solutions for network engineers as IP networks grow and become more complex. The book discusses all major IP protocols in depth, including RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP. It evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of each protocol, helping you to choose the right ones for your environments. Special sections address scalability, migration planning, network management, and security for large-scale networks. Router configuration examples, network case studies, and sample scenarios all help you put the information presented in the book to use.

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Java Primer Plus guides the reader through the Java programming language from the basic concepts (basic syntax, variable, literals, operators, loops, conditional statements, etc.) through advanced topics (RMI, JDBC, Network socket programming, etc.). It provides a deep explanation of Java programming concepts and technologies using classroom tested and proven techniques. What makes this book unique is that it spends the last part showing the reader how to integrate Java technologies into everyday Web related practices and with other technologies.The dual purpose of the book is:
1. To provide a complete introduction to the Java programming language that balances theory with practicality: it will allow readers to (1) become Java certified programmers and (2) become productive in their Java development.
2. To give concrete experience with integrating Java programming technologies.

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Linear Programming and Network Flows addresses the problem of minimizing or maximizing a linear function in the presence of linear equality or inequility constraints

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Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the most important issues and questions that have to be addressed in a wireless sensor network. Wireless sensor networks combine current research trends from a number of different disciplines – hardware design, information & signal processing, and communication networks to name but a few. This single resource makes the crucial aspects of these research fields accessible to the reader. The authors give an overview of the current state-of-the-art and put all the individual solutions into perspective with each other.

This singular text provides academic researchers, graduate students in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, as well as practitioners in industry and research engineers, with an understanding of the specific design challenges and solutions for wireless sensor networks.

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