Dedications

Carlos Alcantara: This book is dedicated to my beautiful wife and three awesome younglings; they are truly an inspiration. They are my motivation, moving toward new goals and embarking on new challenges. I could not have been a part of this project without their love, support, and patience.

Nicolas Darchis: I would like to thank my very patient wife, Caroline, and my kids, who have been extremely understanding all the times that I had to make myself unavailable while authoring this book. I also wanted to thank my colleagues at the wireless TAC teams who, directly or indirectly, helped me build the knowledge required (and used) to write this book.

Jeal Jiménez: I would like to dedicate this effort to my wife, Sofia, and all the family/community members for their support throughout a journey that started long before this book. I also want to dedicate this book to all the people dealing with Wi-Fi and looking to learn and grow in their careers while working hard not only to achieve CCIE or other certification, but also on their personal networking journey. Keep it up! This book will be helpful for any of you working with Cisco WLAN technologies. I hope you enjoy the book and learn a lot from it.

Federico Ziliotto: I would like to address a huge THANK YOU to my colleagues and managers from my team at Cisco, for having supported and backed me up while I wrote these chapters. To Vincent, Jean-Louis T., Jérôme, Thao, Sébastien, Jean-Louis S., Michael, Guy, Christophe—and all the others who I am unfortunately not able to list here—you’ve all been a tremendous help. A very warm and grateful mention to my parents and family, too, who tolerated me working during family reunions and holidays, and who kept encouraging me about that book I should have been writing when I was not. Last, but definitely not least, a special “merci” to Laura for her love, patience, fun, and for having made me discover new dimensions of tooth-breaking sweets that cheered me up when energy was mostly needed.