About The Author

Stephen B. Morris is the CTO of Omey Communications in Ireland. For the last 20 years he has worked for some of the world’s biggest networking companies on a wide range of software projects, including J2EE/J2SE-based network management systems, billing applications, porting/developing SNMP entities, network device technologies, and GSM mobile networking applications. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and holds three patents in the area of network management. In 2003, Stephen wrote his first book, Network Management, MIBs and MPLS: Principles, Design and Implementation (Prentice Hall PTR, 2003, ISBN 0131011138). He has also written numerous articles on network management and other topics for InformIT.com and OnJava.com.