Eric Siegel
Senior Analyst ,  Burton Group
Eric Siegel is a Senior Analyst at Burton Group and a nationally known authority on network performance measurement and optimization. He is the author of Designing Quality of Service Solutions for the Enterprise and Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High&#45;Quality Web&#45;Based Services (with John McConnell). Siegel has 30 years&#8217; experience in the design and evaluation of computer networks. At MITRE Corporation&#44; he worked on system performance evaluation and security issues&#44; at Tandem Computers&#44; he was a network architect&#44; and at Key Note Systems&#44; he was Principal Internet Consultant. He worked as a network designer for the Burton Group and is the author of major portions of their original Reference Architecture at NetReference. Seigel has made presentations at dozens of industry conferences and been cited hundreds of times in the popular and technical press about Internet performance.<br />