I suppose the philosophical question is whether the CCIE a forward looking or backward looking cert? I am under the impression that Cisco originally geared the test around what a significant number of Cisco large customers were running.
I'm sure there are still Vines networks around. I'm not sure if PG&E, for example, ever got around to migrating away from Vines. Let alone Nature's Conservancy. Hell, there might even be a few XNS networks out there somewhere. Especially now that the Lab format is one day, Cisco can't test for everything. They have to focus. So it becomes a matter of what's important. Sooner or later ( and this will be bad news for most of us ) Cisco is also going to have to migrate the Lab pods to more current equipment. Either that or tacitly admit that a lot of the high end solutions they hawk are really not all that important. Another tack they might take is to create CCIE tracks for every specialty that comes along - voice, WAN, QoS, wireless, VPN, etc. But I'm not sure I agree that just because there are people out there running obsolete technologies, that the CCIE Lab should test those technologies. IBM now runs Linux on some of their mainframe products. Token ring and DLSw are dying. The future is IP. Sure the legacy stuff will hang on for a while yet. But seeing as CCIE skills are as much a marketing strategy for Cisco as a resource for customers, I would think that older technologies will have to yield their place in the lab for the new stuff that Cisco counts on for future revenue. Just my couple of cents. Chuck ""David C Prall"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].; > Steven, > I don't know if it is outdated or not. I still have customers running Vines, > DecNet, IPX and AppleTalk. Of course chaos, apollo and pup I haven't seen > recently in the real world. > > David C Prall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dcp.dcptech.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven A. Ridder" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:51 PM > Subject: Re: MPLS in CCIE [7:36682] > > > > For routing and switching - none. Is it me or is the R&S track getting > > outdated? It seems to cover technologies that, although are useful, not > as > > current. > > > > -- > > > > RFC 1149 Compliant. > > > > > > ""Persio Pucci"" wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].; > > > How much of MPLS (if some at all) is covered in the CCIE exams? > > > > > > tks! > > > > > > Persio Pucci - CCNP > > > UOL Inc. - Tecnologia > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=36819&t=36682 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
