Interesting, You can still go to http://www.cwnp.com/ but CWNP was in fact was "acquired" by the new company in August 2012. Other co-founders "exited" out before then (I won't get into details but it was "interesting"). The new company appear to be keeping the CWNP brand but the stuff on the CWNP site seems dated.
Although I have been a CWNA, CWSP, CWNE, CWNT etc for some time. I always know that certifications as as good as the organisation (and people) them. The CWNP organisation was a private company that is now part of another private organisation. How good is Certitrek? I don't know, never heard of them. All these private "Certification" organisations highlight the fact that I missed my calling! I should have founded a Certification Company! I remember looking at PMI for my PMP certification and asking "who are these guys?". I stopped being too interested in CWNP certifications when they started to ask for yearly fees to maintain certifications (and/or requiring CWNE to work for free to maintain theirs!) Right, I'll use my time to review your curriculum and certifications so I can maintain my CWNE or CWNT? The "private for profit commercial" aspect of the relationship became intolerable. I "was" a CWNT but since I don't pay the yearly fee I am no longer officially certified to teach the wireless certification courses? I'm not that in love with the curriculum; it misses the mark for the general audience and without input from its members, there us no way that one or two guys can keep up. The specialized certifications are good depending on the target audience. For my general classes, I just expand on the wireless portion of my network (Network+) courses to cover the important wireless LAN topics that are relevant for most. I'd would actually love to see an "Educause (type) Wireless Certification". Specializing on large organisation networks such as the ones found in "Universities and other large and diverse organisations." How many Fortune 2000 needs to deal with Airplay and other countless consumer wireless devices on their networks? How many EDUs? What's the trend? :-) Build a course from the extensive amount of knowledge on this mailing list! What we need is a true non-profit, open, approach to IT certification. Otherwise, certifications are just another product being sold by a commercial entity to generate revenues. Jonn Martell, CWTS, CWNA, CWAP, CWSP, CWNE (CWNT-ex). PMP Instructor, Networking and Wireless, UBC and FDU Director of Technical Operations, FDU Vancouver (note, I normally don't list my certs but felt it was relevant in this case :-) On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Hinson, Matthew P < matthew.hin...@vikings.berry.edu> wrote: > It’s very possible it’s been this way for some time, but I noticed this > morning on the CWNP homepage that the logo had changed to include another > company’s name. > > > > Apparently, Certitrek has acquired CWNP. That, or it’s been this way for a > while and they’re just getting around to changing the logo. > > > > http://www.certitrek.com/ > > > > -Matthew > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > -- -- ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
