Re: Is CCIE loosing its value?

ccie is just a starting point ....

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Joseph L. Brunner
<joe_at_affirmedsystems.com>wrote:

> Being smart, serious, hard working, calm under pressure and proven is
> always extremely rare and valuable.
>
>
> Cisco doesn't have to be the ONLY game in town for the CCIE to be great...
> I'm a CCIE who does more vmware, exchange, Microsoft, storage, sans, mobile
> applications,
> Financial applications and dozens of other things than Cisco every day...
> But, the CCIE made me serious enough to learn all of them at the same "in
> depth" level as I learned Cisco to pass the lab.
>
> Just yesterday I walked in a company and found 10 things in 2 hours that
> have plagued the company's network for months and gravely effected business
> operations.
>
> Some Cisco/networking, some not.
>
> I like this saying "How you do anything, is how you do everything"
>
> Think about it....
>
> -Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Abiola Jewoola
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 1:45 AM
> To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: Is CCIE loosing its value?
>
> Hello Guys,
>
> I i have observer that the demand for CCIE's is dwindling by the day.
>
> I am of the opinion that the CCIE certificate is not as a valuable and
> prestigious as it was like some five years ago.
>
> This may be due to the fact that Cisco is facing stiff competition from
> other companies out there.
>
> Also, with the advent of virtualisation where you can have virtual
> switches,firewalls and routers most people don't even think they need to buy
> the Cisco boxes anymore.
>
> So am asking is the CCIE certificate still worth all the effort and the
> sleepless nights??
>
> Your thought pls!!!!
>
>
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