Nagendra Kumar Nainar (CCIE#20987) is a senior technical leader with RP escalation team in Cisco Systems. He is the co-inventor of more than 80 patent applications and the coauthor of six internet RFCs, various internet drafts and IEEE papers. He is a guest lecturer in North Carolina State University and a speaker in different network forums.
Special thanks to my mentor, Carlos Pignataro, and manager, Mike Stallings. Thanks to Arun, Abayomi for the review. Thanks to all my friends Satish, Poornima, Praveen, Rethna, Vinodh, Mani, Parthi, and the publishers.
Yogesh Ramdoss (CCIE #16183) is a senior technical leader in the technical services organization of Cisco Systems. He is a distinguished speaker at CiscoLive, sharing knowledge and educating customers on enterprise/datacenter technologies and platforms, troubleshooting and packet capturing tools, and open network programmability. Co-inventor of patent in machine/behavior learning.
A special mention of and thanks to Dr. V. Abhaikumar, principal of Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. I am very thankful to my coauthor Nagendra Kumar Nainar, manager Michael Stallings, mentor Carlos Pignataro, and all my friends and family.
Yoram Orzach gained his bachelor's degree in science from the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and worked in Bezeq as a systems engineer in the fields of transmission and access networks. From being the technical manager at Netplus, he is now the CTO of NDI Communications. His experience is with corporate networks, service providers, and internet service provider's networks, and his client companies are Comverse, Motorola, Intel, Ceragon networks, Marvel, HP, and others. His experience is in design, implementation, troubleshooting as well as training for R&D, engineering, and IT groups.