About the Technical Reviewers

Jim Guichard, CCIE #2069, is an MPLS deployment engineer at Cisco Systems. In recent years at Cisco, he has been involved in the design, implementation, and planning of many large-scale WAN and LAN networks. His breadth of industry knowledge, hands-on experience, and understanding of complex internetworking architectures have enabled him to provide a detailed insight into the new world of MPLS and its deployment. He can be reached at jguichar@cisco.com.

Alexander Marhold, CCIE #3324, holds an MSC degree in industrial electronics and an MBA. He works as a senior consultant and leader of the Core IP Services team at PROIN, a leading European training and consulting company focused on service provider networks. His focus areas are core technologies such as MPLS, high-level routing, BGP, network design, and implementation. In addition to his role as a consultant, Marhold is also a CCSI who develops and holds specialized training courses in his area of specialization. His previous working experience also includes teaching at a polytechnic university for telecommunications, as well as working as CIM project manager in the chemical industry.

Jean-Philippe Vasseur has a French engineer degree and a master of science from the SIT (New Jersey, USA). He has ten years of experience in telecommunications and network technologies and worked for several service providers prior to joining Cisco. After two years with the EMEA technical consulting group, focusing on IP/MPLS routing, VPN, Traffic Engineering, and GMPLS designs for the service providers, he joined the Cisco engineering team. The author is also participating in several IETF drafts.