About the Authors

Mauricio Arregoces, CCIE No. 3285, is the manager of the Cisco Enterprise Solutions Engineering team on Data Center designs. He has been in the networking industry for 17 years and has been involved in designing, implementing, and maintaining large-scale enterprise networks. Mauricio holds a B.S. degree in computer science from the Colombian School of Engineering and a M.S. degree in computer science from California State University at Northridge.

Maurizio Portolani is a network design consultant at Cisco Systems Inc., involved in architecting and validating large-scale Data Center designs.

Maurizio has filed patents on advanced spanning-tree and load-balancing features, and is the author of several Cisco Data Center solution ...

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