About the Authors

Wesley Shuo, CCIE No. 4116, is a network design consultant with Cisco Systems. In this capacity, he provides IP Telephony (AVVID) consulting services and technical expertise to customers during the planning, design, implementation, and operation phases. Before his current position, he was a solutions consulting engineer in the Service Provider Line of Business at Cisco, where he gained extensive experience with various remote-access and WAN technologies, including ATM, WAN switching, DSL, MPLS, BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, RIP, VoIP, VoDSL, VPNs, and IPSec.

Dmitry Bokotey is a triple CCIE (No. 4460) in Routing and Switching, ISP Dial, and Security. He is one of the first professionals to achieve the new CCIE Security certification. Presently, he is a senior solution consultant for Cisco Systems, where he is responsible for the design and configuration of complex telecom and CLEC/ILEC customer networks. He has more than seven years of experience designing and managing large network installations. Careerbuilder.com recently labeled him "one of the world's top computer network engineers."

Raymond Morrow, CCIE No. 4146, CSS1, Cisco IP telephony design specialist, is currently employed at Northrop Grumman. Previously, he was a principal consultant with Computer Solutions, a San Antonio, Texas-based Cisco Silver Partner with Security and VPN Partner specialization. He has 16 years of experience in the networking arena and designs and implements various networking projects to a diverse customer base. Currently he is studying for his Security CCIE Lab Exam after having passed the Security CCIE Qualification Exam. He is the coauthor of CCIE Practical Studies: Security.

Deviprasad Konda is the lead support engineer for Qualcomm's corporate R&D business unit. He manages the Firewall and DMZ Infrastructure, Content Networking Infrastructure, and Quality of Service project teams. He is also part of the design engineering team for Core Backbone Evaluation and Corporate VPN and Remote Access Infrastructure projects. He has more than six years of experience designing and implementing Cisco router- and switch-based enterprise network architectures. He also has extensive network security expertise. He has a B.S. in computer engineering from Graceland University.

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