About the Presenter
As founder and CTO of NextHop Technologies, Sue Hares leads the company's technology qualification, development, and strategic planning functions. Prior to launching NextHop, Sue spent 13 years at Merit Network, Inc., where she most recently directed the Merit GateD Consortium. She was also a senior engineer at both Allen-Bradley Corp. and ADP Inc. An active participant in the design, specification and implementation of routing protocols, Sue co-chairs the IETF Inter-domain Routing working group, which is standardizing BGP. She is also a member of the NANOG program committee. Sue holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.