Russ White - Computer Networking Problems and Solutions: An innovative approach to building resilient, modern networks

An innovative approach to building resilient, modern networks

Russ White and Ethan Banks

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To Lori, my beautiful wife of 20 years.

To Bruce Little and Doug Bookman; for challenging me to think.

To Brett Bartow, Eyvonne Sharp, Phil Gervasi, and Jordan Martin; for inspiring me.

May God bless each of you for the blessings you have brought into my life.

Russ White

To Summerset; for enabling me to pursue the things I must chase.

To Drew Conry-Murray; for commiseration, advice, and encouragement.

To Robin Young and Greg Ferro; for freedom to write and moral support.

To Jordan Martin; for not saying no.

To the Packet Pushers community; for their multiplied voices, both frustrated and victorious.

Ethan Banks

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To begin, this book would not have been written if the need had not been recognized by Radia Perlman, hence planting the seed of the idea this book grew in to. Beyond the seed, however, a book does not represent the work of two authors; many people are actually involved in the process of creating and publishing the kind of high-quality content you now have access to. Below is a (hopefully complete) list of those who have participated in the creation of this content.

Ignas Bagdonas is an architect at Equinix, where he focuses on large-scale design of interconnection fabrics and network automation. Ignas has implemented BGP as part of his work at Routing System, Ltd.

Chris Kane is currently a systems engineer for Arista Networks, where he works on designing and deploying large-scale networks and is a founding member of the Ohio Networking User Group. Chris has been in the networking industry for over 25 years now, having worked in various verticals including Service Provider, Financial, Retail, and Consulting.

Kim Pedersen, CCIE 29189, CCDE 2017:0021, is a network engineer at Lytzen IT A/S, where he focuses on network design and the maintenance and development of international MPLS networks. He has a passion for learning new technical topics and is an avid reader of all things networking. He lives in Denmark with his wife and enjoys traveling!

Nick Russo, CCIE 42518, CCDE 2016:0041, is a network engineer at Cisco Systems in the Aderdeen, Maryland area, where he focuses on service provider, large-scale MPLS, and mobility design, as well as network automation. Nick is the author of the CCIE Service Provider Version 4 Written and Lab Exam Comprehensive Guide, available on LeanPub.

Maria Urlea, CCDP, CCDA, CCNP, CCNA, is a systems engineer at Cisco Systems in Ontario, Canada. Maria has received several masters scholarships and student research awards, and focuses on network design and architecture for several large network operators.

Chris Cleveland is one of the finest development editors in the network engineering space; he has worked with Russ on 13 projects in conjunction with Pearson since 1997.

Russ White, CCIE No. 2635, CCDE 2007::1, CCAr, has more than 30 years of experience in designing, deploying, breaking, and troubleshooting large-scale networks. In that time, he has co-authored more than 40 software patents, spoken at venues throughout the world, participated in the development of several Internet standards, helped develop the CCDE and the CCAr, and worked in Internet governance with the Internet Society. Russ is currently a member of the architecture team at LinkedIn, where he works on next-generation data center designs, complexity, security, and privacy. He is also currently on the routing area directorate at the IETF and co-chairs the IETF I2RS and BABEL working groups. His most recent books are