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Alvaro Retana

Alvaro Retana, CCIE No. 1609, is currently a Development Test Engineer in the Large Scale Switching and Routing Team, where he works on advanced features in routing protocols. Formerly, Alvaro was a technical lead for both the Internet Service Provider Support Team and the Routing Protocols Team at the Technical Assistance Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C. He is an acknowledged expert in BGP and Internet architecture.



Don Slice

Don Slice, CCIE No. 1929, is an Escalation Engineer at Research Triangle Park, N.C., and was formerly a Senior Engineer on the Routing Protocols Team at RTP TAC. He is an acknowledged expert in EIGRP, OSPF, and general IP routing issues. He is also well known for his knowledge of DECnet, CLNS/ISIS, DNS, among other things. Don provides escalation support to Cisco engineers worldwide.



Russ White

Russ White, CCIE No. 2635, is a member of the Routing Protocol Design and Architecture Team at Cisco Systems. He is a member of the IETF Routing Area Directorate, a regular speaker at Cisco Networkers, and the coauthor of six other books in routing and routing protocols, including Optimal Routing Design, from Cisco Press.