About the Authors

Sam Halabi is one of the industry's foremost experts in the Internet Service Provider line of business. Mr. Halabi was recently Vice President of Marketing at an IP networking startup and has spent many years at Cisco Systems where he led the IP Carrier Marketing effort. Mr. Halabi is an expert in complex routing protocols and has specialized in the design of large-scale IP networks.

An active member in the industry, Halabi serves as a board member of the Optical Internetworking Forum and a member of the MPLS Forum.

Danny McPherson is currently Director of Architecture, Office of the CTO, at Amber Networks. Formerly, he held technical leadership positions with four Internet service providers (Qwest, GTE Internetworking, Genuity, and internetMCI), where he was responsible for network and product architecture, routing design, peering, and other business- and policy-related issues. McPherson is an active contributor to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), as well as several other standards bodies. He is an acknowledged expert in Internet architecture and routing protocols.