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For the past 20 years, he has been in Silicon Valley where, in the position of Cisco Fellow, he was an architect of the Cisco Catalyst family of network switches, of the Cisco MDS family of storage networking switches, of the Nexus family of data center switches, and the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). 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\u003cbr\u003e4.4 Stateful NAT \u003cbr\u003e4.5 Load Balancing \u003cbr\u003e4.6 Troubleshooting and Telemetry \u003cbr\u003e4.7 Summary \u003cbr\u003e4.8 Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 5:  Security Services\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e5.1 Distributed Firewalls \u003cbr\u003e5.2 Microsegmentation \u003cbr\u003e5.3 TLS Everywhere \u003cbr\u003e5.4 Symmetric Encryption \u003cbr\u003e5.5 Asymmetric Encryption \u003cbr\u003e5.6 Digital Certificates \u003cbr\u003e5.7 Hashing \u003cbr\u003e5.8 Secure Key Storage \u003cbr\u003e5.9 PUF \u003cbr\u003e5.10 TCP\/TLS\/HTTP Implementation \u003cbr\u003e5.11 Secure Tunnels \u003cbr\u003e    5.11.1 IPsec \u003cbr\u003e    5.11.2 TLS \u003cbr\u003e    5.11.3 DTLS \u003cbr\u003e5.12 VPNs \u003cbr\u003e5.13 Secure Boot \u003cbr\u003e5.14 Summary \u003cbr\u003e5.15 Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 6:  Distributed Storage and RDMA Services\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e6.1 RDMA and RoCE \u003cbr\u003e    6.1.1 RDMA 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