Kelly McGrew, Author

Cisco Voice Over Frame Relay, ATM, and IP
Indianapolis, IN: Cisco Press, 2001.

This work is based on the Cisco Intructor Led Training course of the same name. Steve McQuerry, Steven Foy, and I converted the course into a book, added much new material, and cleared up some errors in the course.

This book describes the various Cisco platforms that support Voice over Layer2/3 (VoX) technologies, explains which interface cards are used for connecting to which telepony components, and how the hardware and software work together.

There are separate chapters on configuring Frame Relay and ATM as the transport layer, including extensive management and troubleshooting command explanations and examples.

Voice over IP has its own chapters to discuss both the theories, standards, and implementation.

There are also chapters on basic analog and digital telephony for those to whom this is new subject material.

Optimizing and Securing Cisco AVVID Applications.
New York: John Wiley & Son, Inc., 2003

This book has four major sections:

Voice Applications
Security Principles and Architectures
Content Delivery Networking Standards and Designs
Storage Area Networking Components and Designs

Each section discusses the relevent products--Cisco and in many cases open source--and describes the best design techniques for implementing this component of AVVID into a converged network.

Real-world experience and illustrations are used to drive home the key concepts for designing your AVVID network, regardless of whether you implement only one component or all three components.

The Cisco Network Design Toolkit
In process: This is a unique work in the offerings of networking books. Too many people attempt a network design or re-design with no experience of project management, no understanding of design methodologies, and little concept of selling the design proposal to management.

This work addresses these market shortcomings by focusing on what most engineers never study: how to effectively manage a project, including time, money, and resources.