 of Data Con- nection Ltd., for materials supplied for sections of Chapter 7, "All-Optical Networks," and Chapter 8, "GMPLS in Optical Networks." Copyright 2002 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Daniel Minoli Mr. Minoli, Managing Director, Econsultex Inc., has 27 years of marquee corporate experience in technology and applications related to, and focused on, broadband enterprise and carrier communica- tions, Metro Ethernet and next-gen optics, LAN technology, voice-over-IP, Internet and intranet architectures and design, wireless LANs and WANs, e-commerce, and multimedia applications. Most recently, Mr. Minoli was founder and/or co-founder of several high-tech companies including InfoPort Communications Group, an Optical & Gigabit Ethernet Metro Carrier. In addition to a full-time corporate career, Mr. Minoli has taught graduate Optical Networking/datacom, Voice-over-IP, multimedia, and e-commerce at Stevens Institute, NYU, CMU, and Monmouth Uni- versity as an adjunct professor for 18 years. He has been a technical ana- lyst for Gartner Dataquest (Datapro) for 17 years. He has also been a consultant for numerous Venture Capitalists' high-tech investments (exceeding ~$125M of investment). Mr. Minoli enjoys over 3,000 Web hits with his name (such as, Google.com "Minoli Daniel"). He has been a columnist for trade periodicals (ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, Network Computing), has written dozens of technology reports for Datapro Corpo- ration and the Gartner Group, and has written five full-fledged market reports for Probe Research Corporation. Mr. Minoli has spoken at over 75 conferences and published over 300 articles. He is often sought out for advice by companies, patent attorneys, and Venture Capitalists, and has been involved in mezzanine investments, providing in-depth reviews of technology and market baseline for high-tech companies in the multime- dia, digital video, CTI/Java, VSAT, and telemedicine arenas. In the 1990s he was a senior executive (VP Packet Services)