8 New Cisco Books Reshaping Networking in 2025

Mark Smith, David Bayne, and John Pickard bring their extensive experience in IT support and networking to this official Cisco guide, crafted to reflect the latest industry standards in 2025. This book equips you with the precise knowledge and skills to navigate the Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) exam, focusing on core concepts such as hardware troubleshooting, software installation, and network basics essential for IT support roles. You’ll find clear explanations of Cisco devices and practical insights into maintaining network infrastructure, making it especially useful if you’re preparing for certification or stepping into a technician role. While it’s tailored for those targeting the 100-140 exam, anyone aiming to strengthen foundational Cisco skills will find value here.

After analyzing the demands of the latest CCNA 200-301 exam, Anthony Sequeira and Ronald Wong created a guide that emphasizes hands-on mastery through Cisco Packet Tracer simulations. You'll move beyond theory to actively configure, verify, and troubleshoot network technologies, with each chapter culminating in graded labs that mirror the exam’s practical challenges. This approach helps you internalize best practices used by seasoned engineers, especially in building and customizing realistic lab scenarios. If you're preparing for the CCNA exam or aiming to sharpen your practical networking skills, this book offers a clear path to gaining confidence and competence in Cisco environments.

This tailored book explores the latest Cisco developments and emerging strategies shaping networking in 2025. It provides a personalized examination of breakthrough technologies and concepts tailored to your expertise and interests, allowing you to focus on the newest discoveries that matter most to your role. The content reveals how evolving Cisco paradigms are transforming cloud-managed security, SD-WAN deployment, and digital experience monitoring, offering a forward-looking view into the networking landscape. By matching your background and goals, this book enables a focused learning journey through cutting-edge Cisco innovations, helping you stay ahead in a rapidly shifting environment with insight and confidence.

Unlike most Cisco guides that simply list protocols and commands, this study guide by Todd Lammle and Donald Robb delves into the latest exam topics with clear explanations of network fundamentals, IP connectivity, and emerging areas like automation and AI. You’ll learn to navigate complex concepts such as VLANs, OSPF routing, and programmable networks through focused chapters that reflect current Cisco certification requirements. The book is designed for IT professionals prepping for the CCNA exam but also serves as a solid refresher for those wanting to update their networking skills with the newest Cisco technologies. If you want thorough yet approachable coverage without getting bogged down, this guide offers exactly that balance.

What started as a need to demystify the complexities of Cisco's latest SD-WAN technology became a detailed roadmap for network professionals. Anastasiya Volkova and her co-authors, seasoned Cisco experts, focus on equipping you with skills to design, deploy, and secure Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN environments effectively. You'll find chapters dedicated to architectural principles, migration strategies, and policy implementation, including new material on Cloud OnRamp and enhanced security segmentation. This book suits network engineers and IT administrators aiming to deepen their hands-on expertise and prepare for the CCNP ENSDWI 300-415 exam, offering practice tests and flashcards to reinforce learning.

This book offers a focused exploration of securing enterprise networks through Cisco Meraki’s cloud-managed platform, authored by Ryan Chaney and Simerjit Singh. They guide you from Meraki’s origins as an MIT research project to its integration with Cisco’s broader ecosystem, explaining how to manage networks with advanced security controls. The authors dive into practical topics like role-based access control, multifactor authentication, and compliance reporting, equipping you to build resilient, secure networks that meet industry standards. If you work with enterprise IT infrastructure, network security, or cloud-managed solutions, this book delivers clear, technical insights to enhance your expertise without unnecessary jargon.

This tailored book explores the frontier of Cisco networking as it evolves toward 2025, focusing on developments relevant to your specific role and interests. It covers emerging technologies, updated protocols, and novel Cisco solutions designed to prepare networks for future challenges. The content examines how new discoveries and trends are shaping networking strategies, offering a personalized deep dive that matches your background and addresses your particular goals. Crafted to help you stay ahead, this book reveals the nuances of Cisco’s latest innovations and provides insight into adapting your network architecture for tomorrow’s demands with clarity and precision.

Drawing from their deep expertise in network solutions, Aaron Trompeter and Robert Webb offer a practical exploration of Cisco ThousandEyes, a cloud-based platform transforming digital experience monitoring. You gain detailed guidance on configuring agents, setting up tests, and using analytics to diagnose and resolve network issues across SaaS, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The book balances technical depth with real-world applications, showing how to integrate ThousandEyes with other Cisco and third-party tools to optimize performance and reduce downtime. If your role involves managing complex networks or ensuring application reliability, this book provides clear strategies and frameworks that directly address those challenges.

Wendell Odom's decades of experience as a network engineer and instructor culminate in this updated CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Library, designed to help you master Cisco's latest certification exam. You’ll gain in-depth understanding of networking fundamentals, VLANs, IP addressing, routing protocols like OSPF, and network security, with a mix of conceptual explanations and hands-on simulation labs. The book’s structured quizzes and real exam-style questions train you to identify your weak spots and refine your skills effectively. If you're preparing for the CCNA exam or want to deepen your practical networking knowledge, this guide offers a well-rounded, up-to-date approach to both theory and practice.

Unlike most Cisco books that focus narrowly on surface-level configurations, Lalit Pamnani’s expertise in enterprise collaboration networks drives a thorough exploration of Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure. You’ll learn not only how to deploy and manage key components like CUCM call control, dial plans, and conferencing but also gain insight into advanced protocols such as SIP, RTP, and RTCP. The book delves into security and recovery strategies and even introduces automation and APIs, equipping you with a broad yet detailed toolkit. If you’re responsible for enterprise-scale Cisco collaboration solutions, this book offers a nuanced understanding that goes beyond basics to help you optimize and troubleshoot complex environments.