Cisco developers are typically Comp Sci graduates. For the most part, there's
nothing amazing about them. They are rarely CCIE candidates. They typically work
on only one thing at a time, so they don't have the breadth of knowledge that a
CCIE must have. Some are better developers than others. They read the RFCs to
develop things that match standards. Others are more innovative and come up with
new things. It really depends on the person.
I know a lot of the early Cisco developers, some of whom are still around.
Several were at CiscoLive last week (Don Slice was mentioned; Dino Farinacci was
there talking about LISP).
I participated in IOS development back in the early 1990s, leading the team that
developed the parser and user interface that you see today (released in v9.21).
It was my consulting experience and having seen all the commands via the parser
work (which took 18 months) that made getting my CCIE relatively straight forward.
-tcs
On 7/14/11 9:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
You got your ccie because of these coders and designers.
I for one would be interested in the code developing process.
I can only imagine the smarts on these guys, they not only have to be
proficient coders, but also know how the protocol works inside out, so i
imagine they are either CCIE certified or compartmentalized and working on
implement specific subsets of code. I can only imagine they are like super
CCIE's.
On Jul 14, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Matt Hill wrote:
> On 14 July 2011 17:05, Alef<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Does anyone know who the team is behind the IOS code ? We never hear
anything about them it seems. Are they kept in the basement locked away?
--
Terry Slattery CCIE# 1026
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