Jean-Philippe Vasseur is System Architect at Cisco Systems where he works on IP/MPLS architecture specifications, focusing on IP, Traffic Engineering, and Network Recovery. He holds an engineering degree from France and an M.S. from the SIT (New Jersey, USA). Before joining Cisco, he worked for several service providers in large multiprotocol environments. He is an active member of the IETF, co-chair of the IETF PCE (Path Computation Element) Working Group and coauthored several IETF specifications. He is a regular speaker at various international conferences and is involved in various projects in the area of IP and MPLS. He has also filed several patents in the area of IP and MPLS and is the coauthor of “Network Recovery” (Morgan Kaufmann, July 2004) and “Definitive MPLS Network Designs” (Cisco Press, March 2005).