Matthew Kolon - Juniper Networks Routers: The Complete Reference

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Juniper Networks Routers: The Complete Reference

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Sean Christensen is a Professional Services Consultant with Juniper Networks. He has been working with various network technologies for the last 15 years and has a wide range of interests including electronics, programming, guitar, and hang gliding.

Avram Dorfman has a Master of Science in Computer Science from Tufts University. He began his internetworking career in 1994 in the U.S. Air Force, as a member of USAF headquarters' network configuration management branch. There he helped bring BGP to the Pentagon. He went on to conceive and build the Pentagon's Network Performance Management branch. He concluded his Air Force career with the rank of Captain as chief of the Pentagon's Network Operations branch. Presently, Avram is a Professional Services Consultant with Juniper Networks. Avram lives in Newport, Rhode Island.

Jeff Doyle is a Professional Services Consultant with Juniper Networks and has assisted in the design and deployment of large-scale service provider networks throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. Jeff is the author of CCIE Professional Development: Routing TCP/IP, Volumes I and II.

Hannes Gredler is a Professional Services Engineer at Juniper Networks, where he deploys and advises for numerous carriers and ISPs running the IS-IS protocol in their core backbones including Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone/Arcor, Lambdanet, and others. He has been in the telecom industry for five years and holds a master's degree in Manufacturing & Automation from the Technical University of Graz (Austria). In addition to his engagement at Juniper Networks, Hannes is actively involved in open-source developments of the IS-IS protocol, where he contributed large parts of the IS-IS decoding engine for tcpdumphttp://www.tcpdump.org/ and Etherrealhttp://www.ethereal.com as well as coding parts of isisdhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/isisd/ , an open source implementation of the IS-IS routing protocol. Hannes currently lives near Innsbruck, Austria. He is married and has two daughters.

E. Gary Hauser Jr., JNCIE #12 and CCIE #4489, currently lives in Sunnyvale, California. He has been a Senior Education Engineer/JNCIE Examination Proctor/Course Developer for Juniper Networks for the past eleven and a half years, where he has specialized in the development of COS/QOS-related materials for instructional purposes. Previous to that, he was a Senior Instructor with Chesapeake Computer Consultants, Inc., where he was a primary Contract Instructor for the Cisco internal engineers in the San Jose headquarters of Cisco Systems, Inc. He specialized in Core Routing, Cable, DSL, and dial remote access platforms education. His ISP-related experience began with SURAnet, Inc., in College Park, Maryland, in 1991. He began his career in networking in 1986 installing enterprise Unix and Novell systems.

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Tony Hill is a Professional Services Consultant for Juniper Networks. Tony consults directly with customers on the design and implementation of large-scale IP networks and has worked with implementing MPLS in commercial environments since 1998. Tony holds CCIE #3399.

Steven D. Holman, CCIE #3957, is a Professional Services Consultant for Juniper Networks, where he designs and implements large-scale ISP networks in the U.S. and Europe. Before he joined Juniper Networks, Steven was a Senior Network System Consultant for International Network Services, where he designed and implemented large scale networks in both the U.S. and Europe.

Matt Kolon is a Technical Marketing Manager for Juniper Networks, where he manages the Marketing Engineering group that produces technical and application notes on Juniper Networks technology. Prior to that, he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff with Hill Associates, a consulting and education firm. He is the author of numerous articles in networking magazines and coauthor of IP Telephony (McGraw-Hill, 1991).

Julian Lucek, JNCIE #21, graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in Physics. He joined the Photonics Research Department at BT where he co-built the world's first all-optical regenerator and gained a Ph.D. in ultrahigh-speed optical data transmission and processing. He then moved into the IP field and carried out detailed evaluations of new routing platforms from several vendors. In 1999, Julian joined the Professional Services group at Juniper Networks where he works with major service providers on the design and implementation of their networks, including large-scale MPLS rollouts.

Peter J Moyer, JNCIE #2, is a Professional Services Consulting Manager for Juniper Networks. Peter manages a team of IP consultants and also consults directly with customers on the design and implementation of large-scale IP networks. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of Maryland and also holds CCIE #3286.

Galina Diker Pildush, JNCIE #18 and CCIE #3176, is the Education Services Engineer at Juniper Networks. After earning her M.Sc. in Computer Science, she worked for 13 years for major world-wide corporations in the areas of internetwork design, architecture, network optimization, implementation, and project management. She has been an academic teacher at York University, teaching computer science, data communications, and computer network courses. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Galina was in charge of the Netgun Academy program for Global Knowledge, mentoring students for their CCIE preparations. Deploying her passion for teaching, Galina teaches a variety of Juniper courses. Her areas of interest and specialization are wireless, ATM, internetwork design and optimization, and Voice over IP. Galina's recent publications include Cisco ATM Solutions from Cisco Press. In addition to her

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demanding professional work, Galina, her husband, their two children, and their dog, who is a Canadian Champion, enjoy spending time together traveling, skiing, and cycling.

Harry Reynolds, JNCIE #3 and CCIE #4977, is a senior Education Services Engineer for Juniper Networks and has over 15 years of experience in data communication and networking technologies. Harry has developed and presented hands-on networking classes for companies such as Micom Systems, Hill Associates, and The American Institute, and has authored articles on T1 troubleshooting for