Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE No. 1354, has more than 10 years experience in designing, installing, troubleshooting, and operating large service provider and enterprise WAN and LAN networks and is currently chief technologies advisor at NIL Data Communications. He is the architect of NIL's Service Provider Academy program, one of the architects of the Cisco Systems(r) Service Provider curriculum, and the lead developer of several service provider-focused courses covering MPLS, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and IP quality of service. Ivan is one of the Cisco(r) Routing authorities in Europe and is the author of EIGRP Network Design Solutions and co-author of MPLS and VPN Architectures, both published by Cisco Press.
Jim Guichard, CCIE No. 2069, is a technical leader for MPLS and IP backbone technologies at Cisco Systems and is the co-author of the highly successful book MPLS and VPN Architectures, published by Cisco Press. He has extensive experience with designing, migrating, and deploying large-scale IP networks and has assisted many of the largest Cisco customers with the integration of MPLS-related technologies into their networks.
Jeff Apcar is a senior consulting engineer in the Advanced Services group at Cisco Systems and has been working with MPLS technologies for more than three years. Jeff's focus is the Asia-Pacific theatre where he has provided detailed designs and design consulting for nearly every major service provider MPLS rollout in the region.
Jim Guichard, CCIE® No. 2069, is a system architect at Cisco Systems®, with a primary focus on MPLS/IP Layer-2 and Layer-3 VPN technologies. During the last eight years at Cisco®, and previously at IBM, Jim has been involved in the design, implementation, and planning of many large-scale WAN and LAN networks.
François Le Faucheur is a system architect at Cisco Systems working in product development and IETF standardization in the area of IP QoS and MPLS. Prior to joining Cisco, he worked for several telecom carriers in France and Australia on the development of enhanced services on ATM, Frame Relay, SMDS, and IP.
Jean-Philippe Vasseur is Cisco Distinguished Engineer where he works on IP/MPLS architecture specifications, focusing on IP, TE, and network recovery. He holds an engineering degree from France and an M.S. from the SIT (New Jersey, USA). Before joining Cisco, he worked for several service providers in large multiprotocol environments. He is an active member of the IETF, co-chair of the IETF PCE (Path Computation Element) Working Group and coauthor of several IETF RFCs. He is a regular speaker at various international conferences and is involved in various projects in the area of IP and MPLS. He has also filed several patents in the area of IP and MPLS and is the coauthor of “Network Recovery".
Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE #1354, is the Executive Director of the technical division at NIL, Cisco's gold partner, training partner, and professional services provider. Ivan has more than 10 years of experience in designing, installing, troubleshooting, and operating large corporate and service provider networks, many of them based on the EIGRP routing protocol. He is also the creator of several advanced IP routing protocol courses, including the advanced EIGRP configuration and troubleshooting course that is offered by Cisco and NIL to their European customers.
Jim Guichard, CCIE #2069, is a Network Design Consultant at Cisco Systems who has extensive experience with designing, migrating, and deploying large-scale IP networks. Jim has used his practical knowledge to assist many of Cisco's largest customers with their network rollouts. He has worked closely with Cisco development and has spent much time researching and testing MPLS-VPN functionality, both within the lab environment and within multiple customer deployments throughout Europe.