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Beau Williamson

Beau Williamson, CCIE Emeritus, (aka “Mr. Multicast”) is a Principle Network Engineer whose area of expertise is General IP Routing and IP Multicast. A patent holder and veteran in the computer and networking technology fields for well over 30 years, Beau has taught and consulted on IP Multicast all over the world as a Cisco Systems employee. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Cisco Press book, Developing IP Multicast Networks.

Besides being an accomplished network engineer, Mr. Williamson prides himself at being able to translate, teach, and mentor other engineers on complex networking topics. In fact, many of Mr. Williamson’s presentations have been recorded and are used as technical speaker training material by Power Speaking, Inc. on how to give top-notch technical presentations. He has won numerous awards for speaking, including Five Time Cisco Networkers Top “Power Session” Presenter and Three Time Cisco Networkers Top “Breakout Session” Presenter. He is a CiscoLive Distinguished Speaker.