Re: CCIE Service Providerv3 - General Question

On 10/26/12 7:29 PM, "Brian McGahan" <bmcgahan_at_ine.com> wrote:

>Right, there are obviously differences between the two OSes, both in
>hardware and software, but for any true CCIE this should not be an issue.
> The point of the CCIE is to obtain the level of expert in network
>engineering. As an expert you should have a deep theoretical knowledge
>of why and how different networking technologies work. OSPF is OSPF, BGP
>is BGP, whether it's on IOS, IOS XR, NX-OS, JunOS, etc.

Yeah, that's the kind of viewpoint that causes outages. When you start
thinking like this, you tend to make some very, very bad assumptions. Of
course, you might live you in a world where vendors never change options
or defaults between platforms or even OS revisions on the same platform,
never mind the consideration of interoperability.

>
>What I'm saying is that if you're a CCIE in R&S - an *expert* in Routing
>& Switching technologies - and you need to start back at CCNA level for
>the Service Provider track, then you have failed. You've failed yourself
>as you've missed the entire point of CCIE to begin with.

There's something about this I find to be fairly offensive, and quite a
bit elitist. Do you honestly believe that achieving a CCIE means you never
have to go back to basics? You never have to review? That you don't have
that much to learn?

When you're dealing with an unfamiliar platform and a new OS, I think it's
prudent to probably start with the basics. I'd expect a CCIE to be able to
breeze through it, since it should simply be a matter of reconciling the
differences with what you already know, but to say that you've failed
yourself by making an attempt to cover all the bases? I think that's a bit
too cavalier.

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Received on Mon Oct 29 2012 - 16:19:16 ART