About the Technical Reviewers

Marcelo I. Silva, M.S., is a technical marketing engineer for the Service Provider Technology Group (SPTG) at Cisco. Marcelo is a 19-year veteran of the technology field with experiences in academia and the high-tech industry. Prior to Cisco, Marcelo was an independent systems consultant and full-time lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His career at Cisco began in 2000, working directly with large U.S. service provider customers designing IP/MPLS core and edge networks. Marcelo’s primary responsibility at Cisco today as a technical marketing engineer (TME) requires him to travel the world advising services provider customers on the deployment of Cisco’s high-end routers: Cisco 12000 Series (GSR) and Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. Marcelo has an MS in information systems from the University of Maryland, and lives in Waterloo, Belgium with his wife Adriana and son Gabriel.

Vaughn Suazo, CCIE No. 5109 (Routing and Switching, Security), is a consulting systems engineer for Wireline Emerging Providers at Cisco. Vaughn is a 17-year veteran of the technology field with experience in server technologies, LAN/WAN networking, and network security. His career at Cisco began in 1999, working directly with service provider customers on technology areas such as core and edge IP network architectures, MPLS applications, network security, and IP services. Vaughn’s primary responsibility at Cisco today is as a consulting systems engineer (CSE) for service provider customers, specializing in service provider security and data center technologies and solutions. Vaughn lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with his wife Terri and two children, and enjoys golfing in his leisure time.