Content networking is the most popular technology used to enchance network and application performance. The growth of content networking has been driven by end-user demands for richer content and lowered response times. Those demands have caused the field of content networking to flourish with technilogical advances. Today many companies use content networking to add a layer of intelligence to their systems, scaling server availability and optimizing content delivery.
Content Networking Fundamentals introduces you to content networking solutions and the underlying networking technologies that content networking uses to accelerate your applications innew and unique ways. You'll discover various algorithms behind content networking and learn how the Cisco Systems product suite implements them.
In this comprehensive guide, you start with a review of the protocals required for content networking, building your knowledge of introductory concepts and applications. From there, you delve into the components specific to content networking, with a focus on the content-aware Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Layers 4 through 7. Numerous deployment examples help you understand the more advanced topics. You can use the configuration snapshots in this book as skeletal configurations for you production network.
Part 1: Overview of Content Networking
Chapter 1: Introducing Content Networking
Part 2: Networking Fundamentals
Chapter 2: Exploring the Network Layers
Chapter 3: Introducing Switching, Routing, and Address Translation
Chapter 4: Exploring Security Technologies and Network Infrastructure Designs
Part 3: Intelligent Network Services for Content Delivery
Chapter 5: IP Multicast Content Delivery
Chapter 6: Ensuring Content Delivery with Quality of Service
Part 4: Applications for Serving Content, at the Network Edge
Chapter 7: Presenting and Transforming Content
Chapter 8: Exploring the Applications Layer
Chapter 9: Introducing Streaming Media
Part 5: Applications Layer Services for Content, within the Network
Chapter 10: Exploring Server Load Balancing
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