Acknowledgements
The editors would like to acknowledge the great contribution of authors from our colleagues at Nokia Siemens Networks: Thomas Deiß, Jouko Kapanen, José Manuel Tapia Pérez, Antti Pietiläinen, Jyri Putkonen, Csaba Vulkán and, last but not least, Erik Salo, ‘the great old transport guru’ who has already fully served his official work career.
Especially great thanks to Esa Törmä, the other grand old man in the mobile backhaul area for his insight and thinking, which has served us for laying the foundation and structure for many of the topics we have addressed in this book.
For specific review comments and suggestions we would like to thank Heikki Almay, Damian Dalgliesh, Joachim Eckstein, Carl Eklund, Timo Liuska, Sanna Mäenpää, Olli Pekka Mäkinen, Jukka Peltola, Mehammedneja Rahmato, Konstantin Shemyak, Antti Toskala, Jouko Törmänen, Eugen Wallmeier and Roland Wölker.
Special thanks to Harri Holma and Antti Toskala for a very useful guideline, example, and hints on how to proceed with writing a technical book and for informing of the practicalities involved in this type of a project.
Also we like to thank the team at John Wiley & Sons and the co-operators for an easy editing process, and for the flexibility which we believe we used up to its full quota; and especially Mark Hammond, Sandra Grayson, Richard Davies, Sophia Travis, Prachi Sinha Sahay, Prakash Naorem and Sara Barnes.
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