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

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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.

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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.

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