Scot Hull - Content Delivery Networks: Web Switching for Security, Availability, and Speed

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Content Delivery Networks: Web Switching for Security, Availability, and Speed

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Scot Hull is a graduate of the University of Maryland where he went AWOL from the Ph.D. program in philosophy and artificial intelligence six years ago. Currently, he is working as a network architect with America Online, where is his job responsibilities include the design and implementation of a next-generation network infrastructure for all of AOL-Time Warner. With over six years of industry experience, he has managed to do just about everything, from help desk work that caused him to run screaming into the night, to professional consulting for Nortel Networks, where he first became irradiated by Content Networking. Way back when, for reasons still unknown to him, he was allowed to teach Windows OS seminars countrywide, and more surpassing still, managed to achieve critical acclaim doing so. Later certified as an MCT, he taught the entirety of the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer track as well as a dozen elective courses for Orange Technologies. Certified by Cisco as both a CCNP and CCDP, he is currently leading a frontal assault on Mount CCIE, and plans to take down the Juniper JNCIE, cancer and world hunger immediately following. He still gives professional talks and seminars on a variety of networking topics, including the new field of Content Networking. You can find him at tradeshows, goofing off online (sthull01@aol.com), or feverishly devising clever plot twists for his first novel.

Calvin Au is currently a senior network architect at IBM Canada Ltd. He is a graduate from the University of Waterloo with a bachelor's of mathematics, majoring in computer science. Although his academic background was in software development, he has had extensive experience in the networking field. His credentials include Cisco CCIE and Nortel Support Expert (formerly Bay Networks Router Expert). In his spare time, Calvin enjoys tennis, basketball, and cycling.

Erik Brandsberg is currently a senior sales engineer for NetScaler, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup networking company that provides advanced network products for Content Networking. Formerly, Erik had worked at Alteon WebSystems and Exodus Communications as a network engineer, and before that had owned his own ISP in Alabama. It was during this time that his interest in Content Networking started, with the integration of the IP Filter package in FreeBSD with Squid for transparent proxying. Since then, Erik has been working with many major websites in product evaluations and network deployments, including the WWF, Lycos, Google, Yahoo, Siebel, and others. Outside of work, Erik spends his time with his lovely wife Janel, and two kids, Sydnee and John, or spending far too much time working on their house in Morgan Hill, California.

Perry Jannette is a senior network engineer with extensive knowledge in network design and optimization. He holds advanced certifications from Cisco as CCIE 7632, from Checkpoint as a CCSE, and from Microsoft as an MCSE. In addition to technical writing, his expertise includes Content Networking, routing protocols, and security. A native of the frosty north, Perry now lives with his wife in balmy Atlanta, Georgia, where he spends most of his free time playing with the latest and greatest computer gadgets.

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Shannon M. Lake Sr., is the founder and CEO of OMNIVERGENT Communications. He has been managing consultant for clients such as Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, Lucent Technologies, Intel Corporation, Phillips, Hitachi, Sniffer/Network Associates, Fore, and Redback Networks. He has worked with over 15 of the largest service providers. He has more than ten years professional and teaching experience in the telecommunications and advanced network service industries. His lecture topics range from Optical Networks to Network Architectures and also include software-based voice and video over IP and Directory Services technologies. His teaching settings have included the military, technology industry, and academia including UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. He has published several articles and is a contributing author on topics ranging from microprocessor design to convergence technology, and is an involved member of the press. He is working on a book called Advanced Voice and Video over Circuit Oriented Data Networks: Omnivergent Technologies. You can find out more information about him at http://www.slakeinfo.com or http://www.shannonlake.tv .

Kent Schumann has been a director of various technology, manufacturing, marketing, and services-related organizations for companies such as Nortel Networks, Alteon WebSystems, GTE Internetworking, Network General, Harman International, and Seymour Duncan. Kent has lived on both sides of the technology fenceleading enterprise IT teams as well as running organizations that provide solutions to IT departments. His technology expertise encompasses data networking, security, web hosting, and ISP infrastructure as well as various other areas. Kent received a bachelor's degree in political science from UC Santa Barbara, an M.B.A in technology management from the University of Phoenix, and is currently pursuing a juris doctorate from Concord University. He is also a Certified Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) professional from APICS.

Steve Shah (Riverside, CA) has been a UNIX systems/network administrator since 1992 and a programmer since 1986. Currently, he is responsible for administering five variants of UNIX and three variants of Windows NT. He has been working with Linux since version 1.09 (1994) and has administered Linux workstations since 1996. Steve is the author of both editions of Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide and has contributed as an author of several publications including Unix Unleashed (Editions 1-3), Red Hat Linux Unleashed (Editions 2-3), and Using Unix, 2nd Edition. He has a B.S. in computer science and creative writing and an M.S. in computer science from the University of California, Riverside.

Dick Sison has held various pre-sales, post-sales, and technical training positions in the internetworking industry for over 20 years. His most recent position is Solutions Architect for Nortel Networks, where his expertise includes designing server load balancing networks. Prior to that, he was a network architect for Unisys Corporation designing LAN/WAN solutions in a pre-sales role. He holds vendor certifications as Master CNE with Novell, CCDP and CCNP with Cisco, and CCSE with Checkpoint.