Russ White is a Principal Engineer in the IPOS team at Ericsson. He has worked in routing protocols and routed network design for the last 15 years. Russ has spoken at Cisco Live, Interop, LACNOG, and other global industry venues, is actively involved in the IETF and the ISOC, has co-authored more than 30 software patents in the area of network protocols and nine books in the area of network protocols, design, and architecture. He holds a Masters of Information Technology in networking technologies from Capella University and a Masters of Christian Ministry in Christian literature from Shepherds Theological Seminary.