Chapter 1 provides an overview of this book and its concepts.
Chapter 2 explores the main components of a typical enterprise Services on Demand network architecture and some of the more important underlying issues that impact network architecture design decisions.
Chapter 3 describes some of key Transport Control Protocol (TCP) tunable parameters related to performance tuning: how these tunables work, how they interact with each other, and how they impact network traffic when they are modified.
Chapter 4 describes the internal architecture of a basic network switch and provides a comprehensive discussion of server load balancing.
Chapter 5 discusses the networking technologies that are regularly found in a data center.
Chapter 6 provides an overview of the various approaches and describes where it makes sense to apply that solution.
Chapter 7 describes network implementation concepts and details.
Appendix A provides an example of the Lyapunov function.
Glossary provides definitions for the technical terms and acronyms used in this book.