Acknowledgments

First of all, I would like to thank all of you readers. Thanks for reading this book, and I hope it can help you start your SDN journey. Since this is my first book, it might not be perfect--there may be a few mistakes. Please accept them as my first book-authoring experience.

Thanks to Packt Publishing, who gave me the opportunity to write this book. Thanks to all members of the editorial team for their contributions that made this book what it is.

I would like to thank the London OpenDaylight meetup group, a very friendly group with amazing folks. Special thanks to Stace Hipperson, Giles Heron, and Nathan Sowatskey for all their contribution to the group.

A big thanks to Aseem and Aneeta Gupta for their inspiration that helped me build a new me.

I will use this opportunity to thank folks from the Linux Foundation, who are in charge of OpeDaylight and OPNFV.

Thanks to the great people form Inverse for their support and providing the PacketFence SDN-NAC plugin for OpenDaylight.

At the end, a big thanks to my wife, Neda, and my daughter, Hanna, for their motivation and allowing me to spend lots of family time on this book.