Acknowledgments

Thank you to our technical editors, Denise and Tom, for making this a better product by pointing out our mistakes and showing us a different perspective for presenting various concepts.

Special thanks go to the Cisco Press team for their assistance and insight throughout this project.

Many people within Cisco have provided feedback, suggestions, and support to make this a great book. Thanks to all who have helped in the process, especially Steven Allspach, Sarel Altshuler, Shashikant Bhadoria, David Block, Bryan Byrne, Patrick Charretour, Gary Davis, Murali Erraguntala, Kelly Fleshner, Mani Ganesan, Jason Gooley, Amos Graitzer, Lior Katzri, Guy Keinan, Arshad Khan, Mike Korenbaum, Manish Kumar, Steve Moore, Noah Ofek, Craig Smith, Sharon Sturdy, Mike Sullenberger, Scott Van de Houten, David Yaron, Tina Yu, and the authors’ management teams.

We are extremely grateful to be around all of these people who want to see this knowledge shared with others.