About the Technical Reviewers

Joseph Fusco is the product director for BT Infonet's global MPLS Cisco-powered network, a network that serves over 1000 clients around the world. He has provided consulting services in the area of global service provider network features and deployment. He has published articles and spoken at industry forums on MPLS. He is a graduate of the University of San Francisco and obtained his master's degree from National University of San Diego. He worked for Xerox Corporation as an instructor in the early release days of Ethernet and prior to joining BT Infonet, he held senior management positions at Symantec Corporation.

Thomas D. Nadeau works at Cisco Systems where he is a technical leader who is responsible for the leadership of operations, management, network management standards, and development and architecture for MPLS-related components at Cisco.

Tom is an active participant in the IETF, ITU, and IEEE. He is coauthor of many IETF MIBs, protocol, and architecture documents in the L2/L3VPN, TE, PWE3, GMPLS, and MPLS areas. Tom is coauthor of RFC 3564, RFC 3811, RFC 3812, RFC 3813, RFC 3814, RFC 3815, RFC 3916, RFC 3945, and RFC 3985. Tom was recently coeditor of the October 2004 IEEE Communications Magazine's special section on "MPLS Operations and Management." Tom has filed a number of patents in the area of networking operations and management.

Tom received his bachelor of science in computer science from the University of New Hampshire, and a master's of science degree from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, where he has been an adjunct professor of computer science since 2000. Tom currently teaches courses on the topic of data communications. He is also on the technical committees of several prominent networking conferences where he provides technical guidance on their content. He also serves on the technical advisory board of Westridge Networks. He is the technical editor of Enabling VPN Aware Networks with MPLS (Prentice Hall Publishers, 2001) and author of MPLS Network Management: MIBs, Tools, and Techniques (Morgan-Kaufman, 2002).

Christophe Masiero is head of VPN Services at Equant Network Services. In this capacity, he leads the team that manages the Equant flagship product MPLS-based IP VPN as well as traditional data services such as X.25, Frame Relay, and LAN access. His responsibilities include P&L ownership, definition of the marketing, pricing, development strategies, and cost optimization as part of the life-cycle management of each product.

Prior to assuming this product management position, Masiero was a senior research consultant in Equant's Technical Strategy group. In this role, Masiero provided strategic recommendations to Equant senior management for the introduction of leading IP technologies, such as MPLS, class of services, and IPsec.

Prior to joining Equant in 1999, Masiero held a series of sales support positions for Alcatel in both the U.S. and France. In these roles, he participated in sales efforts, delivering FR, ATM, IP solutions, and turnkey voice network solutions to international carriers.

Masiero was a French Air Force reserve officer, holds a French master's degree in computer sciences and electrical engineering from ESIGETEL, France, and an MBA from Kennesaw State University, GA.