Acknowledgments

This book benefited from the efforts of all Cisco engineers who share our enthusiasm for the next generation of IP and work tirelessly to implement, test, and deploy it. Among them, there are a few to whom we are particularly grateful: Ole Troan, for his encouragement and support of this work, along with his contribution to Chapters 3 and 7; Pascal Thubert, for his key contribution to Chapter 8; Sean Convery and Darrin Miller, for their guidance and contribution to Chapter 9; and Benoit Lourdelet, for his contribution to Chapter 11. We also want to acknowledge the support of Gunter Van De Velde, Jean-Marc Barozet, Faycal Hadj, Gilles Clugnac, Floris Granvarlet, Tim Gleeson, Stan Yates, Luc Revardel, Vincent Ribiere, Richard Gayraud, Francois Le Faucheur, Alun Evans, Tom Kiely, Kevin Miles, Tin Phan, and Min Li.

We want to thank our technical reviewersDan Williston, Gunter Van de Velde, and Blair Buchananfor their thorough review and their valuable suggestions.

Special thanks go to our extraordinary editorial team, particularly Grant Munroe, Raina Han, and John Kane.

This project could not have been completed without the support of our families and friends.