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.

Yogeshwaran Raghunathan, CCIE No. 6583, is a senior solutions integration architect on the Advanced Services team at Cisco Systems. Yogi holds an MBA and an engineering degree in electronics and communication from CIT (Coimbatore, India). He has 22 years of experience working in the networking industry, 17 of them with Cisco Systems, supporting various service providers in North America. Yogi’s hands-on experience in building and supporting large service provider networks has exposed him to complex MPLS architectures, thus enabling different perspectives on the new world of SDN and MPLS deployment. Yogi has in recent years been involved in design, implementation, and planning for large web provider networks. He can be reached at [email protected].