Just for Valentine's Day over the next two weeks I will post stories with the beginning title, What I love about Cisco and why.
What do I love about Cisco and why? Today it would have to be Cisco CCDE; because only Cisco itself could divide the world CCIE's. Now I know that I am not the first person to write about this subject, but I had to say something. Many of my friends that are CCIE's are not happy with Cisco since they think that all of their hard work is for not. Many think that CCIE's were doing the job that this new CCDE would be doing; I have to agree with them. So why bring the CCDE to market?
Now that we have this new certifications many feel that this will hurt them in advancement and that they will have to switch tracks to this new CCDE. I think that is just what Cisco wants. I have respect for the people who have put the work in and understand the technology. But with all of these exam cram companies that do test preps and lab preps, do you think Cisco was thinking maybe the CCIE is getting diluted?
If you look at what they have done with other certifications and specializations it could be true. It could be that it is a revenue maker for Cisco and that's why they change certifications and specializations. But whichever way you look at it, Cisco has really caused a controversy. But that's why we love them here on Valentine's Day, with the CCDE they gave us something to write about and something for all of the readers to argue about.
Larry Chaffin Ph.D is the CEO/Chairman and founder of Pluto Networks, a consulting and VAR partner specializing in WDS, VoIP, WLAN, Telepresence and Security. Pluto Networks is a leader in WDS-Application Acceleration, Full Disk Encryption, End Point Security and Telepresence. While specializing in the needs of large and enterprise companies, Pluto Networks has been concentrating on the SMB customers to provide them with the same great service as larger companies. Pluto Networks holds SMB specializations from our partners to service all their needs. Pluto Networks has become a leader in SMB VOIP using Cisco and Linksys to service customers.
Managing Cisco Secure Networks, Skype Me, Practical VOIP Security, Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1, Configuring Juniper Networks NetScreen & SSG Firewalls, Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security, How to Cheat at Microsoft Vista Administration, Microsoft Vista for IT Security Professionals, Asterisk Hacking, 2008 VoIP and Video Conferencing, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis and author of Building a VOIP Network with Nortel's MS5100, along with co-authoring/ghost writing eleven other technology books for VIOP, WLAN, security and optical technologies. Larry is currently working on a follow up to Building a VoIP network with Nortel's MCS 5100 Book as well as new books on Cisco Telepresence Networks, Practical VoIP case studies and WAN Acceleration with Riverbed.
Larry has more than 29 vendor certifications and has been working on many others. Larry has been a principal architect around the world in 22 countries for many Fortune 100 companies designing VoIP, security, wireless and optical networks. He has expanded over time also to include application acceleration or WDS. Larry is working with major vendors now on updating current certification tests to make them real world focused.
The opinions expressed in this Weblog are those of the writer and may not represent the opinions of Network World.
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