Industry
The industry, from the inside
Deep-research histories of the vendors of a career since 1996, the partners taught alongside them, and the corporate lineages that connect them. Written from primary sources: SEC filings, inquiry reports, and the trade press of each era.
The career vendors
Worked with directly between 1996 and 2020, in chronological order of first engagement.
- 1996 – 2007Cabletron and EnterasysWhere the career began, and the enterprise LAN was learned from the ground up.
- 2000 – 2002Riverstone NetworksTwo years in Santa Clara, at the carrier and metropolitan-network edge.
- 2003 – 2008Cisco SystemsKeeping critical national infrastructure running, as the single point of contact for Brazil's federal customers.
- 2004 – 2005IronPort SystemsA brief chapter with an email-security startup, years before it became part of Cisco.
- 2009 – 2014NetScreen and JuniperEnterprise switching and the security gateways that grew from NetScreen into the Juniper SRX line.
- 2013 – 2014Extreme NetworksBuilding RNP's metropolitan research networks, and the one vendor here that is also a platform taught today.
- 2015 – 2018FireEye, McAfee and IxiaA portfolio of security and test-and-measurement vendors, carried into the Brazilian channel through value-added distribution.
- 2013 – 2015Palo Alto NetworksNext-generation firewalls, through the reseller channel and the classroom.
Red Education training partners
Vendors Red Education is authorized to deliver training for. These are not part of Rodolfo's own authorized instruction - his covers F5, Fortinet, Netskope, and Extreme Networks.
- Partner trackNutanixHybrid multicloud and hyper-converged infrastructure.
- Partner trackArista NetworksCloud-scale data-center and campus networking (EOS).
- Partner trackCheck Point Software TechnologiesEnterprise network security and threat prevention.
Other vendors - lineages of the pioneers
Corporate genealogies of the companies that shaped networking, telecom, and cybersecurity - who founded them, what they built, and where their IP and people live today. History pages only: no training association is implied.
- LineageHPE Networking - HP, 3Com, Aruba, JuniperThe great consolidation: from the Addison Avenue garage to the $14B Juniper merger.
- LineageBrocade & Foundry - the Broadcom diasporaTwo 1990s pioneers, one 2017 dismemberment: SAN to Broadcom, data center to Extreme, campus and Wi-Fi to CommScope.
- LineageMcAfee, FireEye & Mandiant - the road to TrellixThree security pioneers, one private-equity remix: Trellix and Skyhigh under STG, Mandiant inside Google Cloud, McAfee consumer private.
- LineageMikroTik - Latvia's quiet giantRouterOS on commodity hardware: the company that made carrier-grade routing affordable everywhere - and stayed independent.
- LineageRadware - the Zisapel lineageBorn of Israel's RAD Group in 1997; the ADC and DDoS specialist that rescued Alteon from Nortel's wreckage for ~$18M.
- LineageImperva - from WebCohort to ThalesThe WAF pioneer founded by a Check Point co-founder, now the application-security arm of a French defense giant.
- LineageVersa Networks - the SASE independentTwo ex-Riverstone, ex-Juniper brothers building unified SASE - one of the last large independents in a consolidated market.
- LineageNortel & Bay Networks - the giant that vanishedFrom 1895 Montreal to a third of Canada's stock index to the largest bankruptcy in Canadian history - and the $4.5B patent auction that ended it.
- LineageMadge Networks - Token Ring's standard-bearerFrom a Buckinghamshire farm to beating IBM in court at IBM's own game - and down with the protocol it championed: 'the Betamax of the networking world.'