Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the following teams for helping me create this book.

First, my manager and colleague, Aaron Chaskelis from Cisco, for his support and guidance on this project. I could not have done it without it.

Secondly, Janet Byron, formerly a principal engineer at Cisco, for her deep technical knowledge on Unified CVP and guidance on content found throughout the book. I want to wish Janet well in her newly found freedom and hope to have the pleasure of working with her again in the future.

Scott Hogg, a principal consultant at GTRI, for convincing me to step up and take a swing at the book. Without his words of encouragement and guidance, this book would not exist.

Chris Chandler and Tom Armstrong from Cisco for their contributions pertaining to sizing and mitigation techniques for high-latency networks and Unified CVP. Their work, illustrated in this book, is a superb example of their deep technical expertise in solution architecture and Unified CVP.