Acknowledgments

Jason:

Thank you to Brett and Marianne Bartow as well as Chris Cleveland at Cisco Press! It’s always a pleasure to work with such amazing and talented people!

Thank you to my team, Worldwide Enterprise Networking Sales, at Cisco for always supporting me through all the awesome projects I am fortunate enough to be a part of! #TeamGSD

Thank you to all the people who follow me on my journey, whether through social media or in person. You are much appreciated!

Dana:

I would like to thank Ali Shaikh for being so patient with me during my early Viptela days. I am certain I asked hundreds of questions over the years and never once received an incomplete response from you. I would also like to thank Aaron Rohyans for providing such incredibly detailed information around Cloud onRamp for Colocation and both Aaron and Phil Davis for their incredible tech editing work.

Dustin:

First off, I would like to thank my fellow authors, Jason, Dana, and John. We had a lot of laughs and a lot of stress throughout this project, but we got it done. Congratulations.

Secondly, I would also like to thank our tech editors, Aaron and Phil. I appreciate the feedback you provided, even if it was hard to swallow sometimes. Ultimately it made this a better book.

Thanks to the Demo CoE leadership team at Cisco. You’ve always supported me throughout all my endeavors. A special thank-you goes to my fellow teammates Steve Moore, Fish Fishburne, Paul Patrick, Christine Strom, and Gavin Wright. Now I can get back to work.

There are a few individuals who have helped with this book and various other projects throughout my career. I will always appreciate the support and willingness they’ve provided. A special thank-you to Brad Edgeworth, Mosaddaq Turabi, Ali Shaikh, Gina Cornett, Joe Astorino, Thomas Mckinnon, Tom Kunath, Fred Damstra, and Seth Lechlitner.

John:

I would like to send a special thanks to Brent Colwell, Phil Davis, Dana Yanch, Ali Shaikh, and Larry Roberts for all of the help and training with Viptela across the years.

This project wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the leadership of Cisco’s Global Virtual Engineering team. In particular, special thanks to Henry Carmouche for saying “yes” to that first unreasonable request, Jeff Sweeney for helping this vision and many others become a reality, Femi Ajisafe for seeing this project through to completion, and John Ellis for all the support throughout these adventurous years.

A special thanks to Todd Osterberg, Jason Dumars, Shaker Nazer, and Brad Edgeworth. Each of you were always more than willing to take a chance on me, and I owe you each so much. I only hope that I will be able to pay it forward. Thank you.