From: Tony Edwards (tonyedwards.rs@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 28 2009 - 18:52:15 ART
Hi GS,
I am just wondering whether any one going through same situation as of me...
- Still dreaming & dragging my feet on still allusive RS IE ###. Intention
is still there but unable to focus and drive home the desired result
, Primarily because of diversified technologies requirements from Boss at
work.
- which is not at all bad thing as my employer is using me on various
projects such as RS WAN & LAN , Data Centre technologies such as WAN
Accelerators , WDM SAN + IP Tel or UC + Wireless + NW Management systems
such as CW or ACS ..etc.
- Even though I am enjoying these sorts of technical challenges at work ,
the biggest problem I am going through right now is having to deal with
divided Loyalty between my old love RS and my new love UC.
- Hence am unable to do justice to neither of IE lab exam prep/focus, I am
afraid.
- For example , I can see my Christmas coming to me already in 2009 with 3 x
major upcoming projects such as UC 5 to UC 7 migration , Microsoft Exchange
2007 Unified Messaging Voice Mail deployment and MS OCS MOC deployments
knocking my door.
- So Instead of getting Fluent or consolidate my RS technologies skills
towards my unfinished RS Lab exam , I am now studying & working on on
Microsoft UC technologies.Since they fall under MS banner , I tried to push
them to our server team as me being a comms engineer do not have advanced
exchange server or exchange 2007 UC skills.
- But the answer came back that , since I do maintain end to end Data &
current cisco IP Tel platforms, they reckon that I am their best bet to
manager their Microsoft UC environment as well , which I know nothing about
till now.
- Now the Question is that , I can see the trend of increasing expectations
from employers on Cisco Network engineers on upcoming MS UC as well. Are we
seeing this as a future road map of overlaying MS & Cisco Skill sets ,
particularly when UC field is going to be equally shared by these 2 vendors
with in Enterprise space ? And in these potentially recession times , I
guess the best you can do is to keep your mouth shut and do your best
whatever the project your employer dumps on your plate.
-In a way , I am existed to get my hands dirty on this new UC kid in the
block.
- But the biggest draw back is that , I am moving further away from my
unfinished job of RS lab :-(
- And recently , I am also began contemplating of dumping my old love of RS
lab and instead run after Voice IE lab.
- But the fact that Voice lab is lot more tougher to crack when compared to
RS lab and also because I came very close on RS lab some 2 years ago ,
perhaps , I am unable to let go my RS ## ambitions just yet.
- At the same time , it will be tough to keep working on advanced &
interesting Voice projects @ work and come home and dust off my RS books and
racks and pursue that old love :-(
any advise guys ?
tony
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