About the Authors

Eric Osborne, CCIE #4122, has been doing Internet engineering of one sort or another since 1995. He's seen fire, he's seen rain, he's seen sunny days that he thought would never end. He joined Cisco in 1998 to work in the Cisco TAC, moved to the ISP Expert Team shortly after Ajay, and has been involved in MPLS since the Cisco IOS Software Release 11.1CT days. His BS degree is in psychology, which, surprisingly, is often more useful than you might think. He is a frequent speaker at Cisco's Networkers events in North America, having delivered the "Deploying MPLS Traffic Engineering" talk since 2000. He can be reached at eosborne@cisco.com.

Ajay Simha, CCIE #2970, graduated with a BS in computer engineering in India, followed by a MS in computer science. He joined the Cisco Technical Assistance Center in 1996 after working as a data communication software developer for six years. He then went on to support Tier 1 and 2 ISPs as part of Cisco's ISP Expert Team. His first exposure to MPLS TE was in early 1999. It generated enough interest for him to work with MPLS full-time. Simha has been working as an MPLS deployment engineer since October 1999. He has first-hand experience in troubleshooting, designing, and deploying MPLS. He can be reached at asimha@cisco.com.