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Deepak says, "I would like to thank the many people who have gone out of their way to help me not only with writing this book, but also teaching me about various aspects of my professional and academic career.

"First, I am very grateful for the tremendous corporate support I received from Scott McNealy, Clark Masters, Gary Beck, Brad Carlile, and Bill Sprouse. I feel extremely fortunate to be a part of a team with the greatest, most unselfish corporate leadership of modern time. I would like to thank Kemer Thomson, Vicky Hardman, Gary Rush, Barb Jugo, Alice Kemp, a veteran book writer and also my book mentor, and Diana Lins, who did the illustrations in this book.

"Much of the data center work developed in this book was built on the shoulders of giants Richard Croucher, a world-renowned expert in datacenter technologies, Dr. Jim Baty, Dr. Joseph Williams, Mikael Lofstrand, and Jason Carolan.

"Frank and I are very grateful to the technical reviewers who spent considerable time reviewing and providing feedback and comments: David Auslander, Martin Lorenz, Ken Pepple, Mukund Buddhikot, my good friends and collegues: Mark Garner, who sacrificed many pub nights for me, David Deeths, Don Devitt, and John Howard.

I would also like to thank Dr. Nick McKeown, professor at Stanford University, Rui Zhang-Shen, Ph.D. student at Stanford University, John Fong, NortelNetworks, John Reuter and David Bell of Foundry Networks, Dan Mercado and Bill Cormier of Extreme Networks, and Sunil Cherian of ArrayNetworks.

"Above all," says Deepak, "I thank my wife, Jagruti, and daughters, Angeli and Kristina, for their patience, sacrifice, and understanding of why I had to miss both school programs and family events. Finally, I want thank my mother, mother-in-law, and father-in-law for helping out at home during my many absences."

Frank says, "We must also remember the unsung heros who implement, test, sustain, and measure performance of the Sun network technology, device drivers, and device driver framework for their outstanding contribution to the Sun networking technology. Their assistance and support helped gain the collective experience that has been essential to providing the best possible networking capability for Sun and, in turn, the material necessary for some parts of this book.

"These include the Network ASIC development team, in particular Shimon Muller, Binh Pham, George Chu, and Carlos Castil. The device driver development team, including Sumanth Kamatala, Joyce Yu, Paul Simons, Raghunath Shenbagam, David Gordon and Paul Lodrige. The Networking Quality Assurance team, including Lalit Bhola, Benny Chin, Jie Zhu, Alan Hanson, Neeraj Gupta, Deb Banerjee, Charleen Yee, and Ovid Jacob. The Solaris Device Driver Framework Development team, including Adi Masputra, Jerry Chu, Priyanka Agarwal, and Paul Durrant. The System Performance Measurement team: Patrick Ong, Jian Huang, Paul Rithmuller, Charles Suresh, and Roch Borbonnais."

"I would love to say a big thank you to my wife, Bridget," Frank says, "for her patience and encouragment as I progressed with my contribution to this book.

"Thanks to my two sons, Francesco and Antonio, for distracting me from time to time and forcing me to take a break from the book and play. For them, 'Dad's writing his book' was not a reasonable excuse. God bless them, for they were right. Who would imagine someone three feet tall could have that much insight? Those breaks made all the difference."

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    Networking Concepts and Technology. A Designer's Resource
    Networking Concepts and Technology: A Designers Resource
    ISBN: 0131482076
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2003
    Pages: 116

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