This month’s J-Net Community spotlight is on Mark Allen.  Mark is a long time J-Net member joining us in 2008 and currently ranked as a Trusted Contributor nearing 400 posts.  You will find him mainly conversing with his peers in the SRX Services Gateway forum but he participates in a few other board conversations from time to time.

This blog is about network manageability – and the role of Junos technology to address the problems of today's networks in a way that is aligned with broader challenges facing IT Infrastructure Automation as a whole.  We all know that managing networks is complex, hard, costly, and requires highly trained engineers. 

It’s game time and our first annual Juniper  Lab Madness competition is here!

Featuring the great work of our community members across Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, this is a chance to let our fans and followers decide which lab setups they want to hear more about!

Now you can connect to your Twitter account in your J-Net Profile! Just follow these steps which will enable you to Tweet a blog article instantly.

Networking Field Day events bring together network vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format.  To find out more about what Network Field Day is and isn't from a delegate's point of view, read Paul Stewart's blog post.

Join our session at the upcoming event on Friday, March 8 from 8:00 am/PT until Noon by watching it live through streaming video or by following and joining the conversation on Twitter on the #NFD5 hash tag.

Congratulations to Raheel Anwar for being our February J-Net Spotlight member. Raheel has worked for Juniper since 2005 and has been actively participating in the J-Net community since 2008. Most recently, he moved up to our top ranking of Distinguished Expert, which is a spectacular achievement in itself!

This week is National Engineers Week, which led me to reflect back on my career and how the trust placed in me helped me succeed.

On my first day at Juniper, many years ago when I was a very junior engineer, I was assigned a customer bug that needed to be fixed immediately. I didn't know the code or the tools, and I was keenly aware of my ignorance, but my manager told me, “I know you can handle this, and if you need any help, Kireeti is here to guide you.” 

We would like to take this opportunity to recognize the J-Net members that have recently moved up the ranks in the Community.  Congratulations and thank you for your continued participation!

Distinguished Expert

Raheel

echidov

MMcD

We're always looking to add new functionality and features in J-Net for our users and we'd like to bring your attention to a new addition. You can now add your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn pages right in your profile. Get more followers and follow more of your peers.

This week we'll get to know more about Aaron Conaway from the Juniper Ambassador team. He has an interesting story about how he got into the networking field. Curious? Read on...

Congratulations to Liz Burns for being selected as our December J-Net Spotlight member. Many of you know Liz from managing the Juniper Networks Certification Program (JNCP); she is not only an avid participant in our Certification forum, but also on Twitter and LinkedIn. Liz has racked up over 450 posts and has one blog under her belt since joining Juniper in mid 2010.