Iftekhar Hussain is a technical leader within the Internet Technologies Division at Cisco Systems. For the past several years, Iftekhar has been involved in the design of high availability related aspects of IP/MPLS networks. He brings extensive industry experience to the subjects of networking and telecommunications, including switching, traffic management, and voice delivery over packet switched networks. Iftekhar has a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of California, Davis.