Community Interaction || Networking Neighbors

[Drew_C]

As you know, The Hub is a community of Extreme Networks enthusiasts from all over the world. So now it’s time to get to know your "Networking Neighbors."

I’ll start.

I’ve been with Extreme Networks for just over 9 years. I started as an L1 Technical Support Engineer and was quickly promoted to L2 Escalation Support Engineer. Next, I took over management of our Global Services/TAC Lab. Since then, I’ve designed and built two labs in India, planned/designed/moved 35 racks of lab gear to our new office in North Carolina in under a week, and implemented a program to teach a team of network engineering interns to accommodate lab requests from GTAC. Our NC lab is basically a small datacenter – ~20 VMware servers hosting ~75 VMs, 2 storage arrays, 2 network cores, and ~25 distribution switches for aggregation of management ports for somewhere around 1000 devices. It’s my job as Sr. Lab Systems Engineer to take on new projects and keep the lab running!

On top of this and other roles, I’ve also been The Hub's Community Manager since October, 2014. I’ve always enjoyed helping people and this is another outlet where I can make a difference – there’s always plans to keep improving our community, so keep an eye out! When I’m not tinkering in the lab, I enjoy gaming, college sports, and craft beers.

Now it’s your turn!
Please take a minute to share a little bit about your expertise, background, hobbies, specific networking areas of interest – anything you’re comfortable disclosing (employer is interesting but certainly not required). Maybe you’ve got colleagues or coworkers who can benefit from spending some time here... invite them to join us!

Thanks,
-Drew

Updated Feb 20, 2019

[Resolut1on]

Hi All,

How are you Sir/Ma'am? I am new in extreme products, I have many projects to implement and community hub was very helpful to me. I am learning still and loving the extreme networks switches and Access points. thanks for always helping me to my concerns. God bless

[Sharpy]

Hi All,

I am Chris from the UK. I have been in the Networking sphere for around 10 years with a focus on Cisco and Wireless site surveys.

I am just coming back into the Extreme fold having sat my ENA waaay back when and looking to pick up the wireless side of things and looking forward to the challenge due to a new role requiring it.

I have downloaded most of the tech docs but are there any other resources anyone would recommend?

All the best,

Chris

[Drew_C]

Hello Chris, welcome to The Hub!
Aside from the community, one of the most important resources is the knowledgebase on our support portal. https://extremeportal.force.com/
Everything, including product documentation, is searchable. Take a look around when you have some time - there's a lot there.

Glad to have you join us. If you've got any questions, we're here to help!

[Siva2]

Hi everyone.
I am Siva Sivuyile Ntshobane from South Africa...7 years of experience as a Network-Engineer...
I have been working with cisco, Net-gear and alcatel-lucent doing configuration most of my experience I have been doing configuration on alcatel-lucent devices.

I’m new on extreme network I don't know Where to begin in Extreme...

I have downloaded EXOS_Command_Reference_Guide_15_4 and EXOS_Concepts_Guide_15_4 but I still need videos if anyone has them please share with me...


Thanks in advance..!!!!

[Ryan_Mathews]

Welcome to the Hub Sivuyile and Extreme networking.

Here's a quick EXOS Quick Start Guide that can help you get oriented: http://documentation.extremenetworks.com/PDFs/EXOS/EXOS_Quick_Guide.pdf

You'll be able off and running quickly with all that networking experience. Extreme is very standards-based.

Unified Search, GTAC Knowledge and the Hub Community are great resources as you dig in.

In addition, you might check out some of our training offerings to get you started as well: http://www.extremenetworks.com/education/courses/

Again, welcome! Glad to have you join us.