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Ciprian Popoviciu , CCIE No. 4499, is a technical leader at Cisco Systems with more than eight years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting large IP networks. As part of the Cisco Network Solution Integration Test Engineering (NSITE) organization, he currently focuses on the architecture, design, and test of large IPv6 network deployments in direct collaboration with service providers worldwide. He contributed to various publications and the IETF. Ciprian holds a bachelor of science degree from Babes-Bolyai University, a master of science degree and a doctorate degree in physics from the University of Miami.

Eric Levy-Abegnoli is a technical leader in the IP Technologies Engineering group at Cisco Systems, where he is the technical lead for IPv6 development in IOS. Eric has worked with the Cisco IPv6 implementation since 2001, and has been involved in some of the biggest IPv6 deployments. Before joining Cisco, Eric worked for IBM, where he successively led a development team in the Networking Hardware Division and a research team at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, focusing on networking and content-delivery platforms. Eric received the Diplome d'Ingenieur from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France .

Patrick Grossetete , manager of product management at Cisco Systems, is responsible for a suite of Cisco IOS software technologies including IPv6 and IP Mobility. He is a member of the IPv6 Forum Technical Directorate and manages Cisco's participation in the forum. In June 2003, he received the "IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award" at the San Diego summit. Patrick joined Cisco in 1994 as a consulting engineer. Before joining Cisco, Patrick worked for Digital Equipment Corporation as a consulting engineer and was involved with network design and deployment. He received a degree in computer technology from the Control Data Institute, Paris, France.

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Pascal Thubert has been with the Technology Center since joining Cisco Systems in 2000. He leads a group that has been working on IPv6 networking mobility for the past five years . Pascal is the author of a number of Internet drafts and IETF working group documents, in particular RFC 3963 (NEMO). He wrote the initial implementation of IPv6 network mobility and experimented with a number of additional features for route optimization and MANET. Some of these experiments were conducted with automakers, and his team, together with the Renault Prospect & Research division, won the Jun MURAI award in 2003 for their IPv6 e-Vehicle project. Before Cisco, Pascal was a lead network architect at IBM.

About the Technical Reviewers

Blair Buchanan , CCIE No. 1427, is a senior technical architect and convergence strategist with Sherwood Cameron Associates Limited, in Ottawa, Canada. He has 30 years experience in the communications business. He began his career as a software developer for real-time data communications in process-control applications. Blair has participated in ISO standards development and has taken lead roles in internetwork design for large enterprise and service provider businesses in Canada and the United States. He is currently involved in planning and designing internetworks for converged services over metro Ethernet and IP VPN infrastructures . Blair holds a bachelor degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Western Ontario (1975). His involvement with Cisco began in 1992 as a Cisco instructor and in 1995 as a CCIE.

Gunter Van de Velde is a senior network consulting engineer on the Cisco System's Advanced Services team, and has been working in the field of core network design, and the implementation of IPv6, since early 2001. Gunter received his master's degree in electronics in 1993. After graduating, his first professional activities were based on TDMs, modems, and L2 bridges. He joined Cisco Systems in 1997, initially providing reactive worldwide support as part of the Technical Assistance Center, specializing in IP routing protocol technologies. In 1999, he joined the Advanced Services organization as a network consulting engineer, where he has been active in designing large backbone ISP networks and services.

Since 2001, Gunter has been working as a design architect for the European Commissionsponsored 6NET IPv6 project, and this year has become involved with the IETF, for which he is authoring a number of drafts in the v6ops working group . Gunter is a member of the IPv6 Task Force, and is a regular speaker at IPv6 conferences and events.

Dan Williston is a technical leader at Cisco Systems in Ottawa. He was a key member of the software development team responsible for IPv6 on the Cisco 12000 series router. Prior to joining Cisco, he worked at Nortel Networks as a senior software designer and team leader on inter-LAN switching on the Passport 6400. In the early 1990s, he worked at Norlite Technology, which developed PC-based computer integrated telephony applications and hardware. Dan has 17 years experience in telecommunications and data networking and holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from McGill University.

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