Understanding Policy-Based Networking

Get the big picture on policy networking with this guide fromone of the leaders of policy-based standards efforts With the advent of policy servers, network administrators nolonger have to create data traffic rules (policy) by hand. Thisbook will sort out the hype from the reality for this importantadvance in networking. The authors provide examples and casestudies as well as product roadmaps and suggestions for possiblemigration paths from the old labor-intensive management tonext-generation PBNs (policy-based networks). Readers will learnmore about the first network services set up for policy-basedmanagement including Quality of Service (QoS), the ResourceReservation Protocol (RSVP) in Win2000, the LDAP directorytechnology, and other services nearing standards completion.