Mauricio Arregoces, CCIE No. 3285, has 18 years experience in the design and support of large-scale networks. He has extensive hands-on experience in the design of large Internet web sites. He has bachelor and Masters degrees in Computer Science and he is currently a Network Design Engineer in the Content Networking Network Design group at Cisco Systems. Cisco Systems holds the biggest market share in the Data Center market.
Maurizio Portolani is a network design consultant at Cisco Systems involved in architecting and validating large-scale Data Center designs. Maurizio's expertise includes routing, switching, load balancing, SSL, security, and application integration. During his five years at Cisco, Maurizio has co-developed ACL and load balancing code used in the Catalyst product line and has designed product features in areas such as spanning-tree, load balancing, and SSL. Maurizio holds a Laurea in Ingegneria (M.S. degree) from the Torino Polytechnic (Italy) and a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the École Centrale Paris (France).