Re: OT: Second CCIE or not to with SDN sprouting

Existing CCIE programs and SDN are not related unless we are talking about
Network programmability Developer/Designer and Engineer certifications
being offered.

Technology, Protocols and related functionalities stays the same for SDN.
Whilst CCIE tests the candidates knowledge of IOS/IOS-XR/XE with equal
weightage for technology, SDN may not. It doesn't means that OTV is going
away, however one may need to learn VxLANs and LISP as well ;)

At this pace, SDN might take couple more years to be known widely, but you
never know. Pilots and Prototypes do exist out there.

Design, Implementation and tshoot will have little overlap between SDN and
what is done today.

If you are looking at a place to start, refer http://mininet.org/ and
Python programming.

Best Regards,
Tharak Abraham Luke

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Jay McMickle <jay.mcmickle_at_yahoo.com>wrote:

> I mean this respectfully, but yes, a 2nd CCIE should not be held back
> because of SDN. Version 1 of SDN wasn't that great, and v2 is on its way.
>
> With that said, who knows how long SDN will take to fully kick in.
> Besides, a central place to configure something doesn't mean you don't
> need to have CCIE level skills to design, implement, troubleshoot, and
> configure any of the CCIE topics/trades.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Regards,
> Jay McMickle- 2x CCIE #35355 (R/S,Sec)
> Sent from my iPhone 5
>
> > On Dec 27, 2013, at 9:13 PM, Vibeesh S <vibselva_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am just a wee bit lost in the cross roads & I am trying to understand
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> > industry trend here. I am a CCIE R&S working predominantly on DC &
> private
> > cloud environments.
> > I am preparing for my CCIE DC & am planning to schedule my lab. But I am
> > starting to have doubts if I should be doing it or rather focus on linux,
> > programming like python, openstack that will be more relevant.
> >
> > I have been talking to people in the industry and am getting mixed
> > response. I am sure amny of us here will be having more inputs any
> > constructive inputs would be valuable.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
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