BW: Cisco Loses a Prized Geek

BW: Cisco Loses a Prized Geek: "The networking industry has few household names, even in homes whose residents understand terms like http, proxy server, and VPN. Tony Li is about as close as the industry comes to a celebrity geek. Li helped write the code in the early 1990s that made Cisco Systems (CSCO ) the Microsoft of networking, and then he helped Juniper Networks (JNPR ) become Cisco's top rival in the market for the world's fastest routers. "