Acknowledgements
This book would not have existed if it were not for the following three people: Yakov Rekhter, Aviva Garrett and Patrick Ames, and to them we extend our most heartfelt thanks.
Yakov Rekhter encouraged us to pursue this project and provided valuable insight throughout the writing process, from the book proposal, in-depth discussions of many topics, in particular cutting edge topics such as multicast support in L3VPNs, seamless MPLS and advanced protection schemes and finally detailed technical reviews of numerous chapters. Most importantly, his faith in our ability to do this work was one of the main factors that determined us to go ahead with this project.
Aviva Garrett was the first person to hear about this idea, encouraged it and arranged all the required support within Juniper Networks, as well as providing detailed editorial review, sometimes on extremely short notice.
Patrick Ames guided us through the intricate process of bringing a book from proposal to the printing press and provided moral support and appropriate scolding as necessary. We would not have been able to pull this off without him. Patrick also did all the hard work of preparing the manuscript (and in particular the art manuscript) for editing.
All three editions of this book benefited from the contribution of many people. We would like to thank our following colleagues:
Pedro Marques, for his thorough review of almost all chapters, for many technical discussions and for contributing the analysis ...
