From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 11:54:52 GMT-3
At 8:53 AM -0500 8/3/04, Peasah, Richard Kwame wrote:
>Gang,
>
>Which of the SP track (Optical, DSL, Dial, Cable, WAN Switching, or IP
>Telephony) will you recommend? Let the debate begin :-)
>
Unfortunately, the SP certification suffers from the problem of
people that have an elephant in their dining room but are too polite
to mention it: none of the SP certifications go into real-world
depth and understanding of BGP, and quite likely MPLS.
Of the tracks, all but IP telephony (and maybe WAN switching, but
that's a declining area of interest with MPLS and GMPLS) are methods
of providing broadband end user access. Cisco is far less dominant in
this area than it is in ISP routing (yes, even with the growth of
Juniper in that segment).
The usual incentive for a company to have R&S certified CCIEs is that
it's a reseller and it gets better discounts from Cisco. SPs rarely
buy through resellers (e.g., the Cisco Powered Network program).
So as a serious question, what advantage to people see to getting a
SP certification? It doesn't address the topics of most interest to
ISPs, although it is much stronger with broadband access providers or
dial access providers. What is the motivation?
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