Cisco Press wanted me to do the book all along, but Cisco had a lot of concerns. They wanted to make sure I didn't mention Juniper anywhere in the book,

I travel all over the world doing seminars and giving speeches, and I am completely amazed that in so many parts of the world people will come up to me with copies of the book and want me to autograph it,

It was good timing and luck on my part to take that fundamental topic of core routing and create a book around it,

She is an independent consultant, but she has good relationships with Cisco, ... I wrote all of the technical pieces and coordinated the overall project, and Jennie did the rewrites on the IOS-specific pieces of the chapters.