From: Xiangrong Wang (xiangrow@cisco.com)
Date: Sun Jun 20 2004 - 18:39:00 GMT-3
Hi Group,
As a Cisco engineer, I am not familiar with the policy, but technically
speaking,
IOU is a great tool for development, testing and training. However it's
still not
a replacement for the real gears to prepare for the IE lab. IOU supports only
two type of interfaces and generic router features. But we need ISDN, ATM,
basic
voice, will IOU do that? NO. Not to mention the c3550. As Todd mentioned,
"IOU does not give Cisco employees any advantage over the rest of us
regarding the lab exam."
Sorry, I broke the rule again, and that's will be my last post on this
topic. :-)
Hope this helps.
Xiangrong
At 03:54 PM 06/20/04 -0500, Patrick Torney wrote:
>Hey... can we, as a group(study), leverage the power of our community voice
>to give Cisco a piece of our collective mind on this topic? This policy
>seems, like so many other proprietary things, short sighted. And why don't
>we (groupstudy) become a Gold Partner, for those of us still unaffiliated
>and non-Cisco employees? ;)
>
>I imagine we have just a few CCIE's on here, am I right? And certainly a few
>thousand or so CCNP's and CCNA's... that's a lot of Cisco-centric
>individuals who wield a lot of influence over major corporate purchasing
>dollars (HINT HINT). I work for a $500 million company (not huge, but
>respectable) and I have purchased many tens of thousands of dollars of Cisco
>gear....not a huge amount. For example of the type of purchasing decisions
>we CCIE candidates make, I personally steered my company away from Dell
>networking hardware in favor of Cisco when my company was moving away from
>old DEC hardware. It wasn't a million dollar deal, but if you add all those
>types of deals we individuals do for Cisco....
>
>Where's the gratitude??? ;)
>
>Just wondering...and venting a little.
>Thanks.
>Pat Torney
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