Dr Itamar Elhanany is an assistant professor in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Between 2000-2003 he was the chief scientist and co-founder of TeraCross Inc., a semiconductor company offering Terabit/sec switch fabric integrated circuits. His research areas include high-speed packet switching, scheduling algorithms and network performance analysis.Dr Mounir Hamdi is a professor of computer science and the director of the computer engineering division at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His general areas of research are in high-speed packet switches/routers and all-optical networks, on which he has published more than 200 research publications.