Yakov Rekhter

Who is Yakov Rekhter?

Yakov Rekhter is a well-known network protocol designer and software programmer. He was heavily involved in internet protocol development, and its predecessors, from their early stages.

Dr.Rekhter was one of the leading architects and a major software developer of the NSFNET Backbone Phase II. He co-designed the Border Gateway Protocol, the core routing protocol of the Internet. He was also one of the lead designers of Tag Switching, BGP/MPLS based VPNs, and MPLS Traffic Engineering. Among his most recent activities is the work on MPLS Multicast, Multicast in VPLS, and Multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs. His other contributions to contemporary Internet technology include: GMPLS, Classless Inter-Domain Routing and IP address allocation for private Internets.

He is the author or co-author of 69 IETF RFCs, and numerous papers and articles on TCP/IP and the Internet. His recent books include: MPLS: Technology and Applications and Switching in IP Networks: IP Switching, Tag Switching and Related Technologies.

Rekhter joined Juniper Networks in December 2000, where he is a Juniper Fellow. Prior to joining Juniper, Yakov worked at Cisco Systems, where he was a Cisco Fellow. Prior to joining Cisco in 1995, he worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.