About the Authors

Faraz Shamim, CCIE #4131, is a network consulting engineer with the Advance Network Services Team for the Service Provider (ANS-SP) for Cisco Systems, Inc. He provides consulting services to his dedicated Internet service providers. Faraz wrote several documents, white papers, and technical tips for ODR, OSPF, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, and BGP on Cisco Connection Online (CCO), (www.cisco.com). Faraz has also been engaged in developing and teaching the Cisco Internetworking Basic and Advance Bootcamp Training for Cisco new-hire engineers . He has also taught the Cisco Internetworking Bootcamp Course to MS students at the University of Colorado at Boulder (BU) and Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology (SSUET), Karachi, Pakistan. Faraz has been a visiting faculty member for SSUET and also gave a lecture on OSPF to Lahore University of Management & Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan. Faraz has been engaged in developing CCIE lab tests and proctoring the CCIE lab. Faraz actively speaks at the Networkers conference on the subject of OSPF. Like other authors of this book, he also started his career at the Cisco Technical Assistant Center (TAC) providing support for customers in IP routing protocols. Faraz has been with Cisco Systems for five years .

Zaheer Aziz, CCIE #4127, is a network consulting engineer in the Internet Infrastructure Services group for Cisco Systems, Inc. Zaheer provides consulting services to major ISPs in the MPLS and IP routing protocols area. In his last five years at Cisco, Zaheer has been actively involved in speaking at Cisco Networkers conferences and at several Cisco events. Zaheer occasionally writes for Cisco Packet magazine and for Spider Internet magazine, Pakistan on topics of MPLS and BGP. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Wichita State University, Wichita, KS and enjoys reading and playing cricket and Ping-Pong. Zaheer is married and has a loving five-year-old boy, Taha Aziz.

Johnson Liu, CCIE #2637, is a senior customer network engineer with the Advance Network Services Team for the enterprise in Cisco Systems. He obtained his MSEE degrees at the University of Southern California and has been with Cisco Systems for more than five years. He is the technical editor for other Cisco Press books, including Internet Routing Architectures and Large-Scale IP Network Solutions . Johnson has been involved in many large-scale IP network design projects involving EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP for large enterprise and service provider customers. Johnson is also a regular speaker for deploying and troubleshooting EIGRP at the Networkers conference.

Abe Martey, CCIE #2373, is a product manager of the Cisco 12000 Internet Router Series. Abe specializes in high-speed IP routing technologies and systems. Prior to this position, Abe worked as a support engineer in the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC), specializing in IP routing protocols and later on the ISP Team (now Infrastructure Engineering Services Team), where he worked closely with tier one Internet service providers. Abe holds a master's degree in electrical engineering and has been with Cisco Systems for over six years. Abe is also the author of IS-IS Design Solutions from Cisco Press.