Description
Book SynopsisAnthony Bruno, CCIE No. 2738, is an architect and technical resource manager with British Telecom (BT) with more than 27 years of experience in the internetworking field. Previously, he worked for International Network Services (INS) and Lucent Technologies, and he was a captain in the U.S. Air Force. He has consulted for many enterprise and service provider customers in the design, implementation, and optimization of large scale networks. Anthony leads architecture and design teams in building next-generation networks for customers.
Anthony completed a master of science degree in electrical engineering at the University of MissouriRolla in 1994 and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering at the University of Puerto RicoMayaguez in 1990. For the past 20 years, he has coauthored five editions of the CCDA Official Cert Guide for Cisco Press.
Outside work, Anthony enjoys running marathons and Spartan obstacle races, and he has finished seven Ironman distance triathlons. He is also an avid genealogist and ancestry tree researcher. Anthony also enjoys piloting his Mavic Pro drone during trips.
Steve Jordan, CCIE No. 11293, is a Principal Architect with J. Network Architects and has 23 years of experience in the field of internetworking. For the last 13 years, Steve has specialized in data center and network security architectures involving compute, network, security,storage, and virtualization. Over the years, Steve has consulted with many enterprise and service provider customers in both pre-sales and post-sales engineering and architecture roles, along with working at several Cisco Gold Partners. He has extensive experience in data center and security architecture design and has implemented solutions in many financial, energy, retail, healthcare,education, and telecommunications industries. Steve is a 15-Year triple CCIE in the tracks of Routing & Switching, Storage Networking, and Data Center. His other certifications include CCNA, CCNP Enterprise, VMware VCIX6-NV, and VCP6-NV.
Steve lives in Houston, Texas; and when he is not working on technology, Steve can be found traveling to new places, home brewing, and trading stocks.
For the past 14 years, Steve was also the coauthor for three editions of the CCDA Official Cert Guide.
