About the Authors

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.