Acknowledgments

No book is the sole effort its authors. This book is certainly no exception. We all would like to start by thanking our co-authors for helping us stick with the project.

The authors of this book would like to thank the following people (in no particular order) and places for their parts in helping to make this book happen:

Reviewers:

Mark Basinski, Cisco Systems

Bobbie Krupczak, Empire Technologies

Jim O'Shea, HP

Peter Welcher, CCCI

Anthony Edwards, Tavve Software

Technical contributors from Cisco Systems: Billie Ansell, Joel Dinkin, Srinivas Narayan, Anand Narwani, Dean Rogers, and Kris Thompson.

Cisco Systems contributors to the switch management paper, out of which this book and team of authors grew: Gerard Berthet, Mark Marsula, Dean McDaniel, Barbara Retzlaff, Johnnie Salim, and David Stiff.

We'd also like to thank:

Don Bowman, Cisco Systems, for showing us how to take it to the next level

Peter Fritz and Brad Kintner, Cisco Systems, for the use of the PDVC lab

Chris Mcgugan, Cisco Systems, for the use of his digital camera

Priscilla Oppenheimer, for use of her figures originally published in Top-Down Network Design

Places:

Cisco Systems, which provided many of the resources used to produce this book and without which this book would not have been possible or necessary!

Indy 500 conference room home away from home

China Garden, RTP, NC

Rudino's, RTP, NC

The pizza guy that we stiffed, without whom we wouldn't have found Rudino's

Finally, last, but not least, we'd like to acknowledge our Cisco Press editing team for their patience and not so gentle, but beneficial prodding: Alicia Buckley, Laurie McGuire, and Kathy Trace.