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The career record
Every vendor of a career since 1996, told chapter by chapter - from the hub wars to the platforms taught today. The wider industry family tree, including the partners taught alongside them, lives under Industry.
- 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 – 2019FireEye, McAfee and IxiaA portfolio of security and test-and-measurement vendors, carried into the Brazilian channel through value-added distribution.
- 2018 – 2019Pulse SecureThe distribution chapter's secure-access thread: Neoteris DNA, carried through five flags.
- 2013 – 2015Palo Alto NetworksNext-generation firewalls, through the reseller channel and the classroom.
- 2015 – presentF5The application delivery company, and the platform taught most on this site.
- 2022 – presentFortinetFrom the NSE ladder to the trainer's chair, through a certification program reborn.
- 2024 – presentNetskopeThe SSE teaching pillar: taught from inside the category's defining vendor.
- 2025 – presentPing Identity and ForgeRockThe identity chapter: two bloodlines, one platform - federation from Denver, Sun's rescued open source from Oslo.
- 2026 – presentZscalerZero trust at cloud scale - the company that bet the perimeter would dissolve, and built the exchange that replaced it.
- 2026 – presentCheck PointThe company that made the stateful firewall a product - and still builds the management model everything else is compared against.
The wider family tree
Deep-research lineages of the Red Education training partners and the pioneers that shaped this industry - Check Point to Nortel, Symantec to Madge - live on the Industry page.