Cisco Blogs / Lucien Avramov
  
    
    
    
    
      Lucien Avramov    
     
      No Longer with Cisco
      
     
    
    
      Lucien Avramov, CCIE No. 19945, is a Principal Engineer at Cisco. Lucien specializes in the Nexus data center portfolio and the ACI. Lucien designs datacenter networks worldwide, and has a wide experience in switch architectures, QoS, ultra-low latency networks, high-performance computing designs, and OpenStack. Lucien authored the Cisco Press book: 'The Policy Driven Data Center with ACI'. He is a distinguished Cisco Live speaker and former TAC technical leader. He has several industry certifications, authors RFCs at IETF, and owns an active patent. Lucien holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and a bachelor’s degree in General Engineering from Ecole des Mines d’Ales, France. In his spare time, Lucien can be found hiking, biking, running marathons around the world, and on Twitter @flying91    
   
        
          
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			 Open Networking with Cisco ACI and Open NX-OS 
			
			
				Over the last couple of years, Data Centers have become a key focus on networking innovations, particularly around the broad area of Software Defined Networking (SDN).  At Cisco, for nearly one year, we have been shipping our new way to build a Data Center with our Application Centric Infrastructure…
			
		 
		 
 	       
	
		 
		
		
		
		
	 
 
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