About the Authors
Brad Edgeworth, CCIE No. 31574 (R&S & SP), is a Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems. Brad is a distinguished speaker at Cisco Live where he has presented on a variety of topics. Before joining Cisco, Brad worked as a network architect and consultant for various Fortune 500 companies. Brad’s expertise is based on enterprise and service provider environments with an emphasis on architectural and operational simplicity. Brad holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in computer systems management from St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX. Brad can be found on Twitter @BradEdgeworth.
Jean-Marc Barozet is a Principal Engineer with the Intelligent WAN (IWAN) Product Management team, helping to architect and lead the Cisco SD-WAN solution. Jean-Marc has more than 25 years of experience in the networking industry and has been with Cisco for more than 19 years. He previously was Consulting Systems Engineer in the Cisco sales organization in France. Before joining Cisco, Jean-Marc worked as a consulting engineer for Alcatel Business Systems. He works closely with the largest Cisco customers to design complex large-scale networks in both the enterprise and service provider verticals. He holds an engineering degree from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (INSA). Jean-Marc can be found on Twitter @jbarozet.
David Prall, CCIE No. 6508 (R/S, SP, & Security), is a Communications Architect on the Enterprise Networking Technical Strategy team. David has been with Cisco more than 16 years. He previously held Consulting Systems Engineer and Systems Engineer positions within the US federal area supporting civilian agencies. He is currently focused on the Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN), primarily complex routing and switching designs to include design, deployment, and troubleshooting of large networks using IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR. Areas of expertise include IPv6, multicast, MPLS, fast convergence, and quality of service. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from George Washington University. David works out of the Herndon, VA, office.
Anthony Lockhart is a Technical Marketing Engineer for the Enterprise Networking Group at Cisco Systems focusing on WAN optimization. Before joining Cisco, Anthony worked as a network engineer and consultant for various companies over his 19-year IT career. He lives in Kentucky with his wife, Colleen, and they enjoy traveling and sightseeing. Anthony received a bachelor’s degree in history and sociology from Houston Baptist University in Houston, TX.
Nir Ben-Dvora is a Technical Leader, Engineering for the Core Software Group at Cisco Systems. Nir has more than 25 years of experience in software development, management, and architecture. Nir has been with Cisco for more than 17 years working as a software architect for various network services products in the areas of security, media, application recognition, visibility, and control. In recent years, Nir has been working as a Software Architect for the Application Visibility and Control (AVC) solution and as part of the Intelligent WAN (IWAN) architecture team. Nir owns multiple patents on network services and is a coauthor of IETF RFC 6759. Nir holds a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering and business management from Tel Aviv University and always likes to learn about and experiment with new technologies. Nir lives in Herzliya, Israel, with his wife, Naama, and their three boys.