About the Author

Plamen Nedeltchev was born in February 1954 in Silistra, Bulgaria. He graduated from high school as valedictorian in 1972. In 1980, he received an M.S. (Summa Cum Laude) from Saint Petersburg State Electro-Technical University. In 1989, he received his Ph.D. from the Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Plamen worked as the chief information officer of VMT (a division of the Ministry of Transport of Bulgaria) in his country of origin. He joined Sprint E-Solutions in 1999 as a senior network architect. The same year, he joined Cisco's Remote Access team as a technical consultant. During his career, he has published more than 40 publications in English, Russian, and Bulgarian, including four recent articles in the Cisco Packet Magazine. He speaks five languages and has one technical patent. The scope of his technical expertise and interests includes bridging, switching, routing, capacity planning, compression, multicast, QoS, content networking, SOHO, ROBO, design/modeling/simulation, ISDN, Frame Relay, VPN, xDSL, cable modem, dial, wireless, and troubleshooting. In his spare time, he enjoys political history, philosophy, literature, sports, and music.