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(More customer reviews)This book follows the custom of some others by Cisco Press where the authors are listed on the cover, along with their CCIE numbers. What this signifies is that they are defined by Cisco as qualified engineers on Cisco equipment. Unsurprisingly then, the book relates to a Cisco-only universe of hardware. So when you see the blurb on the cover about 'practical guide to deploying IPv6...', keep this in mind. So yes, at some level, this book is a glorified advertising brochure.
But it does in several places rise about this. Sometimes by sheer level of detail. So even if it ignores hardware by other vendors, it does qualify as an authoritative manufacturer's hardware manual.
At other times, the discussion is general enough to apply across the industry. Like when it talks about the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space and the subsequent need to migrate to IPv6. The first 5 chapters have this broad aspect. But from chapter 6 onwards, the narrative gets closer to implementation level. And specific Cisco models appear. So if your network is indeed mostly or all-Cisco then this is very germane.
Then I got to chapters 9 and 10. A pleasant surprise was that other vendors' equipment and software make their appearance. Kudos to the authors for this outreach. There was prominent mention of Microsoft and VMware's IPv6-related offerings. However, even here, when VMware is discussed, it is regarding its virtualisation product, which does not compete much against Cisco.
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