About the Author

Mr. Minoli is one of the most popular authors on the telecom and networking technology shelf, with several well-received guides to his credit. He is the newly appointed CTO and co-founder of Global Nautical Networks, a Wi-Fi ISP/ASP; the former CEO and CTO of InfoPort Communications, an optical & Gigabit Ethernet metro carrier; former Director of Engineering and Development, Data and Internet Services at Teleport Communications Group, now part of AT&T; and a former Senior Member of the technical staff at Bellcore, researching advanced broadband data services, such as Frame Relay and ATM. In the early 1980s he supported data networking for Wall Street firms; in the late 1970s he worked on data protocols at Bell Labs; and earlier he did research work on packet radio and packet voice.

Mr. Minoli’s work in packet radio communications, packet radio repeaters, voice over packet radio, spread spectrum, satellite and VSAT communications spanned the 1970s and 80s. His pioneering packet radio and data-over-radio work is documented in two-dozen papers in IEEE and other journals. His work on LANs, broadband, and the Internet spanned the 1990s and 00s.

Mr. Minoli is able to take a cold-start or existing operation, department, function, network, or platform and develop it to planned targets. He has P&L-managed organizations of over 120 people with cumulative opex of $75M and capex of $250M. He has worked successfully at large and small companies, end-user organizations, and carriers.

This book is born out of real-life practice. Global Nautical Networks is a Wi-Fi carrier providing advanced hotspot services at hundreds of high-end marinas. Mr. Minoli’s efforts entail: establishing technical direction of the company; designing, deploying, and turning up access points, bridges, routers, and AAA servers; assessing new technologies such as IEEE 802.11a, 802.11g, and 3G; supporting VoIP and Web-portal services; undertaking site surveys and producing engineering packages; producing prefabricated self-contained nodes that are installable in one hour; deploying 128-bit encryption, dynamic WEP, and LEAP-based security; configuring end-users and supporting them; establishing NOC functions; and reducing capex cost from $5,000 to $900 a node as well as reducing the site transmission MRC from $1,000 to $100.

Among his recent books are the highly rated Ethernet-Based Metro Area Networks and the companion SONET-Based Metro Area Networks, both written with Peter Johnson and Emma Minoli; as well as, the brand-new seminal book on Voice Over MPLS.