From: Muhammad Nasim (muhammad.nasim@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 17:39:16 ART
I don't want to dive into Juniper vs Cisco WAR but I want to say one thing
that I am sure everyone will agree is the BUSINESS POLICY OF CISCO is superb
as compare to ANY OTHER VENDOR.
Cisco CAREER CERTIFICATIONS is one of the trademark and also helping
CISCO prodcuts in selling. IF CISCO products are below average but there are
expertise in the market who can plan, desing , implment and troubelshoot
well then anyother product. In short these Career Certifications is really
helping all the SALES, PRE-SALES and POST SALES people to do there job
efficeintly and sell ONLY CISCO AS THEY KNOW CISCO Well.
Unfortunately it is not the case with other Vendors for example I am
personally a great fan of Juniper Security products but in order to become
Security Expert I had to complete CCIE SEC first ( so Cisco is first again).
During this preparartion I get immense information about Cisco Security
products (like ASA, PIX, IPS, ACS) so now if anyone asked me which firewall
you can EASILY implment? I will say ASA (and after PEMU and QEMU) it is
REALLY become very easy now to implment and troubleshoot things on YOUR
LAPTOP and come with the solution so this is a great ADVANTAGE cisco has as
compare to other vendors.
Truly speaking in every networking market segment like Swithces, Routers,
Security , Wireless there are PRODCUTS better then CISCO (I have no doubt on
it) but if you compare the EXPERTISE, SUPPORT, DOCUMENTATION , MARKETING
(CISCO has no doubt one of the excellent TEAM in MARKETING sector :) ) then
YES I will prefer to sell cisco and troubleshoot it : )
Sorry for lengthy EMAIL : )
P.S: Immediately After passing my CCIE-Sec I got a call from Saudi Biggest
Telecom Provider they had one Security position. Intertesing thing is that I
had to manage JUNIPER Netscreen products(like Netscreen 5000 and others) and
plus lot of Foundary Load Balancers ( I never worked on it) but they still
WANT CCIE SEC. So cisco career certifications again playing role in the
market : ) )
2008/8/21 Rik Guyler <rik@guyler.net>
> Amen Felix, my thoughts too: preach the one that pays the bills. Juniper
> does seem to make a pretty darn good product though. Man that would piss
> off my Cisco channel manager if I started pushing Juniper out the door.
> ;-)
>
> Rik
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Felix Nkansah
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:32 PM
> To: Dale Kling
> Cc: Muhammad Nasim; Cisco certification; Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: Cisco Be aware Juniper Switch coming
>
> Hi,
>
> I haven't seen any Juniper product that proves to be inferior to its Cisco
> counterpart.
>
> They are latecomers who try to correct most mistakes Cisco have made with
> every one of their new products that come out.
>
> The Juniper Netscreen, wan accellerator, routers, switches, etc all rock.
>
> As a presales engineer for Cisco products, I usually have to preach
> "end-to-end" solutions model to my customers when they ask me to give them
> reasons to go for Cisco and not a Juniper equivalent.
>
> Juniper is a company I respect so much. But for me, I make my bread with
> Cisco and would continue to love it for the forseable future.
>
> Regards,
>
> Felix
>
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