Dr. Sidnie Feit is the chief scientist at the Standish Group, a leading research consultancy. An analyst, lecturer, and writer with more than 30 years of data communications and information processing experience, she has designed, tested, and reviewed numerous communications products and assisted in product rollouts. She also has developed training programs in communications technologies for vendors and seminar organizations.
Dr. Feit, who received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Cornell University, has written many technology manuals and published books, articles, and reports in the areas of data communications, telecommunications, network management, Internet servers, and Internet applications. Her other books include Wide Area High Speed Networks (MTP, 1999); TCP/IP: Architecture, Protocols, and Implementation, Signature Edition (McGraw-Hill, 1998); and SNMP: A Guide to Network Management (McGraw-Hill, 1993).