From: cyscokid44@gmail.com
Date: Wed Aug 06 2008 - 11:46:35 ART
I got to believe another major reason for this is the advent of Dynamips. I
sure know that's true in my case :-) Once I figured out I could go after
this thing without spending $2k on a rack I jumped on board!
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Antonie Henning - MWEB <AHenning@mweb.com>wrote:
> What Joe wanted to say if you read very very carefully between the
> lines, is that some CCIE's don't recertify because its not worth it,
> they become 'inactive'. Therefore only 17660 of the 21665-1024 are
> 'active'
>
> It is true about the CCIE cert, since I started my journey with CCNA
> their were only 78 odd ccie's locally, 3.5 years down the line there are
> only 84 and since the march ccie worldwide stats update and the august
> update shot up to 100 ccie's locally.
>
> I think the only way to get up to the level of the < CCIE#10000 is to go
> multiple CCIE or JCIE?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Joseph Brunner
> Sent: 05 August 2008 09:45 PM
> To: yungli2008@gmail.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: General Question
>
> A few years ago I was in a room and EVERYONE but me was a CISSP.
> The cert had become a commodity and everyone started getting it in like
> 2004. What are the odds 6 guys (3 it, 1 finance, 1 project management, 1
> facilities!) from 2 different companies would all have the same
> CERTIFICATION?
>
> The CCIE is going through the same thing now. I recently went to a
> technical
> interview for a consulting position... all 4 of us were CCIE's ;)
> And that's just one small room, on planet earth.
>
> As times get tighter and IT gets more and more commonplace you need to
> do A
> LOT to keeping earning the amount of money to maintain your family's
> standard of living. Don't be shocked to see these numbers accelerate as
> more
> and more IT fields overlap (i.e. voice and data = same dept in the
> company)
> and fewer folks are needed.
>
> I'll leave you with this;
>
> I went to a "must be CCIE interview once". They wanted 10 things,
> systems,
> email, backups, oh, yeah, and cisco". Cisco is really becoming an
> afterthought to many organizations...
>
> "I'll take a C++ guy, who knows java, unix, shell scripts, oh, and when
> he's
> not busy, he can re-design and admin my cisco network!"
>
> -Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> yungli2008@gmail.com
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 3:25 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: General Question
>
> Experts
> I couldn't understand the CCIE number, current total CCIEs 17660 but the
> current number is 21665.
>
> How cisco offer these numbers.... symmetrically or?
>
> For example last month one guy got #21395 now another one #21665, within
> a
> month 270 CCIEs..? I can't believe?
>
> Li
>
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