Sanjay Hooda, CCIE No. 11737, is currently a principal engineer at Cisco, where he works with embedded systems and helps define new product architectures. His current passion is to design the next-generation campus architecture, and he is focused on simplifying
the design and deployment of wired and wireless infrastructure. Over the last 17 years, Sanjay’s experience spans various areas including high availability; messaging in large-scale distributed systems; Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA); large-scale software projects; and enterprise campus and LAN,WAN, and data center network design.
Shyam Kapadia, Ph.D., is currently a technical leader in the Data Center Group at Cisco. He graduated from the University of Southern California with Ph.D. and master’s degrees in computer science in 2006. His research interests broadly lie in the area of networking systems including wired, wireless, ad-hoc, vehicular, and sensor networks. He has co-authored several conference and journal publications in these areas including a book chapter in the relatively nascent area of intermittently connected wireless networks (http://anrg.usc.edu/~kapadia/publications.html). At Cisco, for the first few years, he was an integral part of the team that delivered the next-generation Catalyst 6500 Sup 2T platform. During the past few years, he has been intrinsically involved in developing solutions for data center environments with more than 25 submitted patents in this area. Over the past 12 years, Shyam has been the speakers chair for a premiere Open Source conference, Southern California Linux Exposition (SCALE), hosted in the Los Angeles area. In his spare time, he loves watching international movies and is passionate about sports like cricket, basketball, and American football.
Padmanabhan Krishnan is a software engineer in the Data Center Group at Cisco. He joined Cisco 7 years ago and has more than 12 years of experience in various areas of networking and telecommunication. He obtained his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Madras University, India. His research work for the master’s degree included Diffserv, MPLS traffic engineering, and QOS routing/Connection Admission Control in ad-hoc wireless networks. Padmanabhan has worked in many overlay technologies in Cisco such as 802.1ah, TRILL, FabricPath, and VPLS. He was responsible for the design and development of the core infrastructure used by the forwarding drivers and many Layer 2 features in the next generation Catalyst 6500 Sup 2T Platform. Prior to joining Cisco, Padmanabhan worked in ATM signaling and DVB-RCS, an interactive on-demand multimedia satellite communication system specification.
Shannon McFarland, CCIE No. 5245, is a corporate consulting engineer for Cisco, working as a technical
consultant for enterprise IPv6 deployment and data center design with a focus on application deployment
and virtual desktop infrastructure. Over the last 16 years, he has worked on large-scale enterprise campus
and WAN/branch network design, data center design and optimization for Microsoft operating systems
and server applications, as well as design and optimization of virtual desktop infrastructure deployments.
For the past 10 years, Shannon has been a frequent speaker at IPv6 events worldwide (notably Cisco Live
[formerly Networkers]), IPv6 summits, and other industry events. He has authored many papers and Cisco
Validated Designs (CVD) on IPv6, IP Multicast, Microsoft Exchange, VMware View, and other applications,
as well as contributed to many Cisco Press books. Prior to his time at Cisco, Shannon worked as a
consultant for a value-added reseller and also as a network engineer in the healthcare industry. Shannon
lives with his wife and children in Castle Rock, CO.
Muninder Sambi, CCIE No. 13915, is a manager of product marketing for the Cisco Catalyst 4500/4900
series platform. As a product line manager, he is responsible for defining product strategies on the multibillion-
dollar Catalyst 4500 and 4900 series platforms, which include next-generation product architectures
both for user access in Campus and Server access in the Data Center. Prior to this role, Muninder
played a key role in defining the long-term Software and Services strategy for Cisco’s modular switching
platforms (Catalyst 6500 and 4500/4900 series) including a focus on IPv6 innovations. Some of these
innovations enabled dual-stack IPv6 deployments in large enterprise and service provider networks.
Muninder is also a core member of Cisco’s IPv6 development council. Muninder has represented Cisco as
part of multiple network design architecture reviews with large enterprise customers. Over the last 12+
years, Muninder has worked on multiple Enterprise Campus, WAN, and Data Center designs. Prior to
working at Cisco, Muninder worked as a network consultant for one of India’s leading network integrators
and was responsible for designing and implementing LAN, WAN, and hosted Data Center networks.
Muninder lives with his wife and children in Fremont, California.
Nikhil Sharma, CCIE No. 21273, is a technical marketing engineer at Cisco, where he is responsible for
defining
Shannon McFarland, CCIE No. 5245, is a corporate consulting engineer for Cisco, working as a technical
consultant for enterprise IPv6 deployment and data center design with a focus on application deployment
and virtual desktop infrastructure. Over the last 16 years, he has worked on large-scale enterprise campus
and WAN/branch network design, data center design and optimization for Microsoft operating systems
and server applications, as well as design and optimization of virtual desktop infrastructure deployments.
For the past 10 years, Shannon has been a frequent speaker at IPv6 events worldwide (notably Cisco Live
[formerly Networkers]), IPv6 summits, and other industry events. He has authored many papers and Cisco
Validated Designs (CVD) on IPv6, IP Multicast, Microsoft Exchange, VMware View, and other applications,
as well as contributed to many Cisco Press books. Prior to his time at Cisco, Shannon worked as a
consultant for a value-added reseller and also as a network engineer in the healthcare industry. Shannon
lives with his wife and children in Castle Rock, CO.
Muninder Sambi, CCIE No. 13915, is a manager of product marketing for the Cisco Catalyst 4500/4900
series platform. As a product line manager, he is responsible for defining product strategies on the multibillion-
dollar Catalyst 4500 and 4900 series platforms, which include next-generation product architectures
both for user access in Campus and Server access in the Data Center. Prior to this role, Muninder
played a key role in defining the long-term Software and Services strategy for Cisco’s modular switching
platforms (Catalyst 6500 and 4500/4900 series) including a focus on IPv6 innovations. Some of these
innovations enabled dual-stack IPv6 deployments in large enterprise and service provider networks.
Muninder is also a core member of Cisco’s IPv6 development council. Muninder has represented Cisco as
part of multiple network design architecture reviews with large enterprise customers. Over the last 12+
years, Muninder has worked on multiple Enterprise Campus, WAN, and Data Center designs. Prior to
working at Cisco, Muninder worked as a network consultant for one of India’s leading network integrators
and was responsible for designing and implementing LAN, WAN, and hosted Data Center networks.
Muninder lives with his wife and children in Fremont, California.
Nikhil Sharma, CCIE No. 21273, is a technical marketing engineer at Cisco, where he is responsible for
defining
Shannon McFarland, CCIE No. 5245, is a corporate consulting engineer for Cisco, working as a technical
consultant for enterprise IPv6 deployment and data center design with a focus on application deployment
and virtual desktop infrastructure. Over the last 16 years, he has worked on large-scale enterprise campus
and WAN/branch network design, data center design and optimization for Microsoft operating systems
and server applications, as well as design and optimization of virtual desktop infrastructure deployments.
For the past 10 years, Shannon has been a frequent speaker at IPv6 events worldwide (notably Cisco Live
[formerly Networkers]), IPv6 summits, and other industry events. He has authored many papers and Cisco
Validated Designs (CVD) on IPv6, IP Multicast, Microsoft Exchange, VMware View, and other applications,
as well as contributed to many Cisco Press books. Prior to his time at Cisco, Shannon worked as a
consultant for a value-added reseller and also as a network engineer in the healthcare industry. Shannon
lives with his wife and children in Castle Rock, CO.
Muninder Sambi, CCIE No. 13915, is a manager of product marketing for the Cisco Catalyst 4500/4900
series platform. As a product line manager, he is responsible for defining product strategies on the multibillion-
dollar Catalyst 4500 and 4900 series platforms, which include next-generation product architectures
both for user access in Campus and Server access in the Data Center. Prior to this role, Muninder
played a key role in defining the long-term Software and Services strategy for Cisco’s modular switching
platforms (Catalyst 6500 and 4500/4900 series) including a focus on IPv6 innovations. Some of these
innovations enabled dual-stack IPv6 deployments in large enterprise and service provider networks.
Muninder is also a core member of Cisco’s IPv6 development council. Muninder has represented Cisco as
part of multiple network design architecture reviews with large enterprise customers. Over the last 12+
years, Muninder has worked on multiple Enterprise Campus, WAN, and Data Center designs. Prior to
working at Cisco, Muninder worked as a network consultant for one of India’s leading network integrators
and was responsible for designing and implementing LAN, WAN, and hosted Data Center networks.
Muninder lives with his wife and children in Fremont, California.
Nikhil Sharma, CCIE No. 21273, is a technical marketing engineer at Cisco, where he is responsible for
defining new features, both hardware and software, for the Catalyst 4500 product line. Over the last 10
years, Nikhil has worked with various enterprise customers to design and troubleshoot both large and
midsize campus and data center networks.
Sanjay Hooda, CCIE No. 11737, is a technical leader at Cisco, where he works with embedded systems
and helps define new product architectures. His current focus areas include high availability and messaging
in large-scale distributed switching systems. Over the last 14 years, Sanjay’s experience spans various
areas, including SCADA (Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition), large-scale software projects, and
enterprise campus and LAN, WAN, and data center network design.