Luca Martini joined Cisco Systems in October of 2003 and has since been primarily involved with L2VPN technology that evolved from his original draft-martini design. For the past five years, Luca worked at Level3 Communications. He has been involved in the internet engineering task force (IETF) for the past 4 years and has contributed enhancements to the RFC2547 MPLS VPN design. He is the author of the draft-martini design for transporting layer2 protocols over MPLS core network. In this position he designed, planned, and chose the next generation technology and equipment for Level 3 Communication Network.

Luca worked as Network Consultant for the Storage Technology Corporation, as Network Engineer for Sykes Enterprises, as a Digital Design Engineer for Thought Technology, as Computer Consultant for Wayin Corporation, as a Computer Programmer for HHS Canada Trading, and as a Computer Hardware Consultant for Larken Electronics. Luca's specialties include knowledge on routing and switching technology for large scale networks, from IP to Ethernet and ATM to SNA. Over the years, he worked with all types of IBM/Cisco networking technology, as well as ATM switching technology. Luca Martini graduated from McGill University, Montreal Canada (1992) with a B.A. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.