Blair Ray - IP multicast, Volume II, Advanced multicast concepts and large-scale multicast design

Advanced Multicast Concepts and Large-Scale Multicast Design

Josh Loveless, CCIE No. 16638
Ray Blair, CCIE No. 7050
Arvind Durai, CCIE No. 7016

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IP Multicast, Volume II

Advanced Multicast Concepts and Large-Scale Multicast Design

Josh Loveless, Ray Blair, and Arvind Durai

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Josh Loveless, CCIE No. 16638, is a systems engineering manager for Cisco Systems. He has been with Cisco since 2012, providing architecture and support services for tier 1 service providers as well as for many of Ciscos largest enterprise customers, specializing in large-scale routing and switching designs. Prior to joining Cisco, he spent 15 years working for large service providers and enterprises as both an engineer and an architect, as well as providing training and architecture services to some of Ciscos trusted partners. Josh maintains two CCIE certifications, Routing and Switching and Service Provider.

Ray Blair, CCIE No. 7050, is a distinguished systems engineer and has been with Cisco Systems since 1999. He uses his years of experience to align technology solutions with business needs to ensure customer success. Ray started his career in 1988, designing industrial monitoring and communication systems. Since that time, he has been involved with server/database administration and the design, implementation, and management of networks that included networking technologies from ATM to ZMODEM. He maintains three CCIE certifications in Routing and Switching, Security, and Service Provider (No. 7050), and he is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and a Certified Business Architect (No. 00298). Ray is coauthor of three Cisco Press books, Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module,Tcl Scripting for Cisco IOS,