iv About the Contributing Authors
Mr. Finn joined Cisco in 1993. In addition to his standards activity, he invented and/or influenced
many of the Catalyst switching concepts/protocols including, but not limited to, Port Aggregation
Protocol (PAgP), compact GVRP, shortest path bridging, MSTP, VTP, CDP, L2/L3 forwarding
interactions in EARLs, port ASIC features, VLAN mapping, spanning tree improvements, and
MAC security.
Mr. Finn is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology. Throughout his engineering
career, he has enjoyed singing in barbershop quartets and choruses. He is also an avid traveler.
Dr. Nasir Ghani has gained a wide range of industrial and academic experience in the telecommunications
area, and in the past, he has held senior positions at Nokia, IBM, Motorola,
Sorrento Networks, and Tennessee Tech University. Currently, he is an associate professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, where he
is actively involved in a wide range of funded research projects in the area of optical networks and
cyber-infrastructures. Dr. Ghani has published over 80 journal and conference papers, several book
chapters, various standardization proposals, and has been granted two patents.
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