From: Dan.Thorson@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 16:01:09 GMT-3
Tim, and the rest of the GroupStudy folk:
If Cisco is just looking for a sales/marketing chain to enhance revenue,
they should be pushing CCDP and CCNP as more-premier certifications.
Removing IPX and CatOS (etc) from the CCIE certification lab defeats the
definition of CCIE!
Take a look at the definition of CCIE from
http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/10/wwtraining/certprog/select_cert.html
and tell me that a CCIE who does not know Catalyst OS, or IPX, or even
ATM-LANE/FDDI/TR or DECnet/AppleTalk/Vines, etc really meets the criteria.
Ethernet IPv4 with only native IOS switches does not, IMHO, meet the
definition of "highly complex evnironments". CCIE is, if nothing else,
having a significant change of definition. I, for one, have no interest in
being a part of Cisco's sales team.
"CCIE Routing and Switching can install, configure, and operate networks in
highly complex environments with specific protocols."
"CCNP can install, configure and operate LAN, WAN and dial access services
for larger networks."
"CCDP can design routed and switched networks involving LAN, WAN and dial
access for larger networks."
danT
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