Ok, so here I am reading this great book from Cisco Press titled
IPv6 for Enterprise Networks. When I receive my next book for review from Cisco Press in the mail. I really need to kick it into high gear on my reading. Now, for all fairness I was sick for three days which really made me not want to read but I probably should have anyway knowing that I had another book coming in.
Before I start telling you about the new book I received in the mail, I really need to finish the current one and get more information to you. The
IPv6 for Enterprise Networks book is really in my opinion a book for people in the back ground of the networking world. The network architect, designers ,and the great folks handling all of the routers and switches working on the backbone or backend of the network. While I think that as IPv6 becomes stronger everyone should learn what they can about IPv6. I still think that this book along with the whole movement towards IPv6 will be mainly something for the backend networking people at large.
I am looking forward to the days when I will be more involved with the back bone of networks and will have a better understanding of all of this magic. With that being said, I have gone through the Cisco academy and I did very well at it but I know that I still have a lot more to learn. The
IPv6 for Enterprise Networks book is one more tool in my growing tool box of knowledge. This book is both very nice and very intense at the same time. I do not fully understand everything the book is showing me. But, I am able to follow along and get alot of what the book is trying to share with me. I do feel that this is not a book that many would be able to follow or finish if they were not students of networking or did not already work in the networking field. The reason for this is simple. Books like this are dry. I do not care who is to write these kinds books the truth is that some subjects in the computer world are just dry and hard to read. Cisco Press I feel has really come along way in making books more enjoyable to read. My first two semesters in the Cisco academy the books were huge, scary and hard to read. The last two semesters had new books that were smaller, easier to read and almost seemed to have a new direction to them. I find this has followed along with many of the Cisco Press books out on the market today. I am able to grab a book from Cisco Press and sit down and read at a decent pace. Some books you just can not do that with.
My favorite chapter of the IPv6 book was chapter 5. Chapter 5 was the planning of the IPv6 Deployment. Which I also think may have been the shortest chapter in book. I think I enjoyed Chapter 5 so much simply because I like planning and brainstorming. I also enjoyed chapter 11 which was the chapter on Managing IPv6 Networks. Chapter 11 was very in-depth with what the book was showing. Chapter 12 was also a very good chapter that I enjoyed very much but I still think I enjoyed chapter 5 the most. As with all of the Cisco Press books that I have read they all have great diagrams and illustrations. They are very well thought out and all seem to be executed in a very professional way. This just happens to be one of those books that is a bit to dry for most people to sit down and read with a great deal of enjoyment. I am learning about IPv6 at the moment so I was excited to get this book and to read it. But, at the same time it was over my head and at times hard to remain focused on not due to the book or the authors just simply because of the topic at hand. I still view this book as a great tool in my toolbox and think that anyone who is apart of computer networking should read it. While the average end user not so much.
So if you are looking to gain a great deal of knowledge in the IPv6 field, I would highly recommend grabbing this book. I have included the information in my other posts however, I will include the information again below.
IPv6 for Enterprise Networks which is for sale by the great people at
Cisco Press.
