It was good timing and luck on my part to take that fundamental topic of core routing and create a book around it,

It hasn't all been [bad] luck. They've had some good teams.

We played just as well. I think luck was more on their side this time. We showed ourselves and we know we could have won that game.

A lot of people will tell you it takes some luck on the way. I don't think anybody walks straight to a title without some of it.

She is an independent consultant, but she has good relationships with Cisco, ... I wrote all of the technical pieces and coordinated the overall project, and Jennie did the rewrites on the IOS-specific pieces of the chapters.

Cisco Press wanted me to do the book all along, but Cisco had a lot of concerns. They wanted to make sure I didn't mention Juniper anywhere in the book,