Cloud Computing

About the Authors

This book was written while the authors worked in the CloudBand Business Unit at Alcatel-Lucent. CloudBand, founded by Dor Skuler, is a market-leading platform for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

Igor Faynberg, Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department of Stevens Institute of Technology, is a Bell Labs Fellow. At the time of writing this book, he was a senior architect in charge of NFV security, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer of CloudBand.

Previous to that he had held various staff and managerial positions in Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent business units. In his Bell Labs career, he has influenced the development of several software technologies—from mathematical programming to Intelligent Network and Internet/PSTN convergence to virtualization. He has contributed to and held various leadership positions in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and European Telecommunication Standardization Institute (ETSI), where he presently serves as Chairman of the ETSI NFV Security working group. He has served on technical committees of several IEEE conferences, and he holds numerous patents for the inventions related to technologies that he had developed.

Igor has also co-authored two books and numerous refereed papers. He holds a Mathematics Diploma from Kharkov University, Ukraine, and MS and PhD degrees in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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