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+Cisco Systems, Inc. wishes to acknowledge the seminal and leading work of David Erickson.
+David's implementation of Beacon was one of the first open-source network controllers.
+The OpenDaylight Project would not exist were it not for David's intellectual and 
+architectural contribution and his inspiration lives on in the OpenDaylight code base today.