Charting My Course to JNCIE-ENT: A Personal Blog Entry

This is the first entry in my personal blog. I decided to start this blog to chart the course for my journey to the JNCIEs, starting with JNCIE-ENT.

A brief intro of who I am and why I’m doing this. I’m a network engineer by trade with about 15 years of industry experience. I work for a small Catholic College which is primarily Extreme Networks for Route/Switch and Aruba for Wireless. So why Juniper you may ask? Good question. I love the idea of One Junos for Routing, Switching, and Security. I chose to start with Juniper for this blog as I believe its commit model and automation hooks are where modern networks are going.

As far as vendor certificates go, the highest I’ve achieved is the (now retired) Cisco CCNP R&S. It was a valuable certificate for me when I earned it and laid a strong Route/Switch foundation that I still use out in the wild today.

Road Map: My first move will be an honest self assessment of where I stand on the JNCIE-ENT blueprint. Short version: everything that glues a campus or branch together—VLANs and STP, OSPF/IS-IS/BGP routing, multicast, CoS, VRRP high availability, and the troubleshooting finesse to fix it at 3 a.m.

I’ll share configs, diagrams, and the inevitable mistakes. If you’re chasing any JNCIE cert, drop your biggest study challenge in the comments and let’s do this together.