From: Dmitry Volkov (dmitry.volkov@rogers.com)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 16:00:03 GMT-3
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On
> Behalf Of Howard C. Berkowitz
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:55 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Service Provider: Which Track?
>
>
> 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?
Short answer - Knowledge
There are no Broadband/DSL/CSSs on the lab.
On written - yes - What's wrong with that ?
And what topics below are not SP related ?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/learning/le3/ccie/sp/lab_exam_blueprint.html
Bridging and Switching
VTP, VLAN, Trunk, Spanning tree
Frame Relay, DLCI, FR multilink
ATM PVC, SVC, FR/ATM interworking
PPPoE
IGP Routing
IS-IS, Level 1/2, Metric
OSPF, LSA, Area
Redistribution, Summarization, Filtering
Policy routing
EGP Routing
IBGP, EBGP
BGP attributes
Confederation, Route reflector
Synchronization, Aggregation, Stability
Redistribution, Filtering
Multipath
SP Multicast
PIM-SM, PIM-DM, SSM, PIM-BIDIR, IGMP
Auto RP, Static RP, BSR, Anycast RP
MP-BGP for multicast, MSDP
MPLS
Label distribution, LDP/ TDP
Label filtering, Label merging, Multipath
MPLS COS
MPLS Netflow
MPLS over ATM
MPLS Traffic Engineering
L3/L2 VPN
MPLS VPN, MP-iBGP
PE-CE routing, RIPv2, OSPF, EIGRP, Static, ISIS, EBGP
BGP Extended Community
Inter AS MPLS VPN
Carrier Supporting Carrier
VRF-Lite, VRF Select
Multicast MPLS VPN
GRE, multipoint GRE
L2TPv3
802.QinQ
SP QoS and Security
DSCP/EXP, TOS, NBAR
Marking, Shaping, Policing
CAR, FRTS
WRQ, CBWFQ, LLQ, PQ, CQ
RED, WRED
LFI, cRTP
RSVP
ACL, RPF, Filtering
Routing update security
Common attacks
High Availability
NSF, GLBP
Fast reroute, Link/Node protection
HSRP, VRRP
Management
SNMP, SYSLOG, RMON
Accounting
Netflow
NTP
Dmitry
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