Lakshminath R. Dondeti is a senior security architect in the advanced technology group at Nortel Networks, Billerica, MA. He is also the coauthor of Multicast and Group Security (A tech House, 2003). Dr. Dondeti received his B.E. from Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College, Allahabad, India. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, all in computer science.