Acknowledgments

A very special thanks to James and Eleanor. I remember brainstorming with James for hours about this book, and eventually he came up with the ultimate solution. I would like to thank Eleanor for having a tremendous amount of patience and professionalism.

I would also like to thank my tech editors, Sarah Anand and Dante McNeil, two gifted network engineers with a tremendous amount of knowledge. God willing, I will be working with these two champions for a long time to come. They are not CCIEs yet, but their knowledge is on par with the best CCIEs out there.