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Find Your People: What the USNUA Is and Why Every Network Engineer Should Know About It

Written by Mike Lossmann | Nov 1, 2026, 12:00:00 PM

"Back in the day, and I’m rewinding about 15 years here, finding people to talk networking with was hard. This is coming from someone who worked in New York City, where you’d think there would be tech meetups on every corner. Maybe it was because I was an introvert, who knows to be honest.

Fast forward to 2021. A good friend of mine put out a post on LinkedIn asking if anyone wanted to start a network user group in Florida, and I said yes before I even researched what I was signing up for. Turns out it was a NUG, part of the US Networking User Association (USNUA), and I’d never heard of either one.

Almost five years later I’m still co-running (FL)NUG, and I’d bet a lot of network engineers still haven’t heard of a NUG either. Before I get into what it is, a little backstory on why I said yes so fast...."

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