Cisco Systems. Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures. Volume 2. Student Guide

Cisco Systems, 2007. — 478 pages.The e-commerce module enables organizations to support e-commerce applications through the Internet. The e-commerce module uses multiple component design techniques that have been discussed in this course. The first lesson reviews how high availability is of particular importance for the e-commerce module. The second lesson examines common uses of firewalls, server load balancers, and connections to multiple ISPs in e-commerce designs. The third lesson discusses how to integrate network components into e-commerce design providing varying levels of security. The last lesson looks at tools and techniques for tuning e-commerce designs.Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:
Discuss the importance of high availability for e-commerce designs
Discuss how firewalls, server load balancers, and multiple ISP connections are used in e-commerce designs.
Discuss how to integrate firewalls and server load balancers into functioning e-commerce designs.
Describe tuning techniques for improving the performance and availability of an e-commerce module design