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In any corporates network you see job requiring Cisco certificates. Those employees then choose to buy Cisco rather than something else, and the support deals
by iso947 6y ago
In any corporates network you see job requiring Cisco certificates. Those employees then choose to buy Cisco rather than something else, and the support deals require the companies to maintain the employees Cisco papers and training, often with free trips to conferences in luxury locations.
The engineers wouldn’t recommend another brand of router which may be better because they’d lose their perks and face difficulty moving to another job.
It’s a self sustaining industry.
No surprise Amazon want the same thing.
- goatinaboat 6y agoThe engineers wouldn’t recommend another brand of router which may be better because they’d lose their perks and face difficulty moving to another job. In theory yes but in practice Juniper ate 30% of Cisco's market overnight when they showed up with better core routers for ISPs, and all the CCNx's happily got Juniper certified too.
- petra 6y agoCore routers are really expensive and probably strategic to the business. That decision is weighted heavily.
- solotronics 6y agoThis is not true in my experience. It's a valuable and recognized certificate, but most large cloud and enterprise are multivendor and the Cisco certs are interchangeable with the Juniper certs and others. It's just helpful as a measuring stick "You have a CCIE? Please explain the states of BGP and give some examples of issues that can occur to make the peering stuck in opensent." The Cisco certs are a good way to get your foot in the door if you don't have extensive work experience as a network engineer.
- paleotrope 6y agoI think you mistake the VARs with enterprises. Otherwise, as a holder of several cisco certs, I've clearly been missing out on these perks and free training. Not to mention the free trips to luxury locations.
- bluedino 6y agoI rarely see Cisco hardware in the SMB space. They’ve price themselves out. When I do come across it, it’s either telecom vendor owned, or the small business stuff which is re-branded Linksys or some other garbage. Even the re-branded small business lines are almost double what the competition costs. But, it sells because “it’s Cisco” and it’s not $3,000 a switch.
- eeZah7Ux 6y ago> In any corporates network you see job requiring Cisco certificates This is not always true and people are downvoting you... > No surprise Amazon want the same thing. ...but this is the important point: lock-in
- hourislate 6y agoNo one ever got fired for recommending Cisco routers or switches.