Re: CCIE SP Changes

I assume an upgrade with this track would mean a whole new set of devices
(CRS-1, ASR, XR, etc)

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:55, Roger Pfaeffli <rpf23543_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> 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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