Charles E. Spurgeon

Bio

Charles Spurgeon is a co-author of the book “Ethernet – The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition” He is a Senior Technology Architect for the ITS Networking group at the University of Texas at Austin, where he works on developing and managing large campus computer networks. The UT Austin network supports roughly 250,000 unique computers in a given year, and the wired network includes 153,000 wired Ethernet ports in over 3,500 switches and routers. There is a large 802.11 wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) system with roughly 15,000 radios in 7,500 access points. In 2016 the wireless system supported a peak of over 45,000 concurrent users during the busy hours of the day. The UT Austin data center, based on Cisco Nexus equipment, supports thousands of servers and virtual machines.