On Wed, 9 May 2001, Brian wrote:
(following up on a post about removing TR from the CCIE lab)
> yeah i would love to see focus put on current popular technologies, not
> those used by a small minority.
I hate to reopen that debate, but what difference would that leave
between a CCIE and a CCNP/CCDP with say, 5-6 years experience? Sure,
looking at it from the employer's seat, it's nice to have (relatively)
cheap people who can deal competently with the 50% (or whatever) of all
available technologies that 99% of all networks will use in some form,
but what (IMHO) makes a CCIE worth the money is the ability to deal with
the older or exotic technologies that only 1% of the sites use.
To give a concrete example, it may be OK to require CCDPs and CCNPs to
know about FR, but not about X.25, but if you do the same for CCIEs,
then anyone who *needs* the features that only X25 provides is left up
the proverbial creek. (Having seen the kind of infrastructure that's
considered state of the art in some countries or locations from my stint
with an oil company, I can attest that when you need X25 or LAPB, you
need it badly, and switching to FR/HDLC/PPP is simply not an option.)
*tosses 2 cents Allanward*
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