About the Technical Reviewers

Nick Garner, CCIE No. 17871, is a solutions integration architect for Cisco Systems. He has been in Cisco Advanced Services, supporting customers in both transactional and subscription engagements, for 8 years. In his primary role, he has deployed and supported large-scale data center designs for prominent clients in the San Francisco Bay Area. His primary technical focus, outside of data center routing and switching designs, has been security and multicast. Prior to joining Cisco, Nick worked for a large national financial institution as a network security engineer. Nick maintains two CCIE certifications, Routing and Switching and Security.

Tianji Jiang, Ph.D., is a dual CCIE (No. 19987, R&S and Data Center) and has more than 20 years of experience in the networking field. For the past 15 years, he has worked at Cisco in various roles, spanning development, escalation, and advanced service delivery. Currently as a Cisco networking consultant, he has been a key member of many service provider projects, including planning, designing, implementing, and deploying large IP networks. Tianji graduated with a Doctorate degree from Georgia Tech, with his Ph.D. dissertation focusing on investigating multicast scalability and heterogeneity.