Empson (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology) and Roth (Red River College) summarizes the concepts and commands needed to pass the optimizing converged Cisco networks (ONT) exam. The slim study aid and IT reference steps through setting up Cisco unified communications manager express (CME) using the CLI, configuring priority and custom queuing, and deploying AutoQoS on both routers and IOS-based catalyst switches. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Scott Empson is the Associate Chair of the Bachelor of Applied Information Systems Technology degree program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he teaches Cisco routing, switching, and network design courses in a variety of different programs–certificate, diploma, and applied degree–at the postsecondary level. Scott is also the Program Coordinator of the Cisco Networking Academy Program at NAIT, a Regional Academy covering Central and Northern Alberta. He has earned three undergraduate degrees: a bachelor of arts, with a major in English; a bachelor of education, again with a major in English/language arts; and a bachelor of applied information systems technology, with a major in network management. He currently holds several industry certifications, including CCNP, CCAI, and Network+. Prior to instructing at NAIT, he was a junior/senior high school English/language arts/computer science teacher at different schools throughout Northern Alberta. Scott lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife, Trina, and two children, Zachariah and Shaelyn, where he enjoys reading and studying the martial art of Taekwon-Do.
Hans Roth is an instructor in the Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technology department at Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada. Hans has been with the college for 11 years and teaches in the both the Electronic Technology and IT areas. He has been with the Cisco Academy Program since 2000 teaching CCNP curricula. Previous to teaching, Hans spent 15 years in R&D/product development designing microcontroller-based control systems for consumer products as well as for the automotive and agricultural industries.