At Sprint we have a few CCIEs.. But not as many as you think - and we are
the #1 reseller of Cisco equipment in the U.S.. I have put my CCIE on hold
for now, since I know what CCIEs in Las Vegas earn versus what I make now.
The problem is that in the real world, people start to become specialists,
and my job title has me working in the field of IP Telephony as well as
802.11b WLANs. So, getting my CCIE right now won't do much. I may go for
the CCIE Design later this year. But I recently left my old employer as a
"Network Engineer" (designing/merging/expanding our network and
troublshoting problems) and recently started at Sprint Long Distance doing
Pre-Sales Engineering in 5 different states. My product range is: Nortel
PBXs, Nortel Routers/Switches (there are more our there than you think!),
Cisco AVVID product line, and Aironet product line. I've had experience
with VoATM and VoFR at my last job, setting up tie lines from PBX to PBX
over the WAN. IP Phones are new to me, but I'll be traveling to Ontario,
Canada, to play at Nortel, and flying to North Carolina to play in Sprint's
AVVID lab .. oh yea, I'm going to some Cisco IP Telephony/Call Center
training too. :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Van Oene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: CCIE salary
> The CCIE program does little to develop the skill set of a pure IP
engineer in a ISP environment. CCIE has little bearing in my opinion when
candidate are interviewed for senior IP architectural positions. CCIE is
really an enterprise discipline.
>
> Pete
>
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
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> On 2/23/2001 at 9:20 AM Drew Simonis wrote:
>
> >Brian wrote:
> >>
> >> This really isn't true. Lets look at some basic facts:
> >>
> >> There are only ~6000 or so CCIE's in the world, possibly as many as 30%
> >> are employed by cisco.
> >>
> >> There are over 6000 ISP's in the US alone.
> >>
> >> There are over 7000 AS's in the world.
> >>
> >> My point is, that if most of your CCIE's work for cisco and big big
> >> companies, then their are a ton of networks, complex networks, that
don't
> >> even have CCIE's at the healm. Even a large company like UUnet may
only
> >> have a handfull of CCIE's.
> >>
> >
> >
> >Also take into account the large number of CCIE's who make their
> >wages at training companies, and who aren't in the field. I know
> >that when I was with IBM Global Network Services, we had just 2
> >that I knew of...
> >
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