AW: CCIE SP Changes

Well Marko, if you are right that would mean "the end" of home labs...
...at least for most of the students. I mean, imagine how much it would cost to make a home lab with 7600, ASR1000...
I think even if you work with a SP, it could be difficult to get these boxes 1 year just for studying.

I definitely agree, there should be some changes in the SP lab to bring it up to date, Cell Mode MPLS is (at least in my opinion) not really something we should learn as the "future technology". Additionally there is so much L2VPN stuff they should add.

Apart from the fact that I hate the C7600 (evil QoS and other weird stuff depending on the Linecard), I hope that Cisco will change the blueprint in that way that it "can be affordable" to make a home-, or company lab.

I would be very disappointed if they would shutdown this track...I mean, they should rather shutdown Storage than the SP track...but that's my personal point of view.

Let's see what happens :o)

Roger

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Von: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] Im Auftrag von Marko Milivojevic
Gesendet: Montag, 7. Dezember 2009 09:09
An: Azar Ali
Cc: Narbik Kocharians; Ashwin Iyer; Majonestx; Cisco certification
Betreff: Re: CCIE SP Changes

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 07:50, Azar Ali <azarali1980_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> As Narbik said, its impossible to add 7600/12000 series routers due to cost.
> So I don't expect too much change.B I'm curious to see whatB cisco can do for
> SP track apart from IOS,core knowledge,troubleshooting sections. Yeah, can
> could add a few more 7200's and probably some ISR's.

I beg to differ. 7600 for Cisco are dirt cheap and all they would need
are two per location. Add to that a couple of ASR1000 boxes, combined
with 3-4 ME-3400 switches and you got yourself a pretty decent SP
setup, unlike the one we have today.

IB4m certain we are going to see either change comparable to what I
described, or a complete shutdown of the track. All other tracks at the
moment make sense relevance and technology-wise. SP is very out of
date.

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