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Acknowledgments

Wei Luo: I would like to thank all the people from Cisco Press who helped make this book possible, and special thanks go to our Executive Editor Brett Bartow for putting up with us.

I want to thank Greg Burns, Gary Green, and other colleagues at Cisco Systems for the unreserved support, wisdom, and insight. Without all of your talent and excellence in making the Layer 2 VPN technology a reality, this book would not have been possible.

This book is a true work of collaboration. I want to thank my coauthors for all their hard work and devotion. I cannot thank my coauthors without giving my special gratefulness to Dmitry Bokotey for opening the door for me and always being there.

Carlos Pignataro: I would like to thank my coauthors for their teamwork and talent that made this book possible. Thanks to our reviewers for all their helpful comments. I also want to thank all the people at the Cisco Systems family that in one way or another make these technologies a reality.

Special thanks to W. Mark Townsley for his most valued insight, openness, and for giving me a great opportunity to learn, and to my colleague Wen Zhang for always helping me find answers to my questions with his expertise and experience.

I would like to thank as well our Executive Editor Brett Bartow and our Development Editor Dayna Isley for their professionalism and patience, along with all the Cisco Press team.

Finally, I want to thank all the design engineers, network architects, and NOC engineers that keep Layer 2 VPN networks running smoothly.

Dmitry Bokotey: This book is a product of collective effort. I would like to thank my coauthors, Anthony Chan, Wei Luo, and Carlos Pignataro, for their enormous talent and expertise.

As always, I'm grateful to my wife, Alina, for her help with writing and editing my chapters.

I would also like to thank Brett Bartow and others at Cisco Press for another fruitful collaboration. Your patience is truly appreciated.

Big thanks to my Cisco Systems family for the opportunity to explore and implement the technology that became the basis for this book.

Finally, I want to thank my mom and dad for being there for me and my little Alyssa for letting me be there for her.

Anthony Chan: Thanks to my coauthors for their continued perseverance during this entire process.

Thanks to Brett Bartow and Dayna Isley and others from Cisco Press for their patience despite my numerous requests for extensions along the way.

I would also like to thank all Cisco engineering and architecture team who developed and supported L2TPv3 and UTI for creating an equivalent IP pseudowire solution.