From: MADMAN (david.madland@qwest.com)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2005 - 16:27:58 GMT-3
alasdair gilchrist wrote:
> I fully understand where you guys are coming from, I do know the hours of study etc. However you are tying yourselves to one vendor. It is not a healthy solution. Take for example you do the CCIE security, since when was Cisco any good at security! Yes they have the PIX, and very good it is but the rest of their security products are crap. So you will gain this award and it is next to useless, as all companies looking for security guys will be looking for the generic CISSP or GIAC. Be honest how many jobs do you see going, asking for specifically CCIE (security) compared too CISSP etc ?
>
> I am not anti Cisco, I just feel that Cisco has tried to do too much on one IOS. This has let in the small guys to specialise, and find niche market in which they can excel.
> I will give you an example, take the huge market over the last couple of years in WISP, what was Cisco's solution BBSM. The biggest piece of crap any vendor could supply. Now there are literally 100's of billing, authentication packages for half the price and treble the quality.
>
> If you had gone down the wrong road and become an expert on BBSM you would now be sleeping on a park bench and glugging out of a brown paper covered bottle.
>
Though I obviously am most comfortable with Cisco IOS the
networking/security/voice fundalmentals, not to mention standards, are
the same one vendor to the next. Just another syntax.
Dave
-- David Madland CCIE# 2016 Sr. Network Engineer Qwest Communications 612-664-3367"Emotion should reflect reason not guide it"
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