Behrouz A. Forouzan graduated from the University of California, Irvine. He has been teaching for many years at DeAnza College, where he has been involved in their course development for the Computer Science department. Additionally, he works as a System Development Consultant for various companies.

Forouzan is also the author of many successful programming and networking books including Data Communications and Networking, Computer Networks A Top-Down Approach, TCP/IP Protocol Suite , Cryptography and Network Security , Business Data Communication , and Local Area Networks .