[cisco-voip] CCIE Voice or CCIE R&S

[Mark Holloway]

For the last 5 years I have been a VoIP architect for a service provider.  I
barely get to touch core routing and switching anymore.  I came to the
conclusion that my original goal of getting the CCIE Service Provider
probably isn't a good idea.  It doesn't feel right and it would be such a
waste to NOT pursue the CCIE Voice since VoIP is my background.  You should
probably follow the same principal.  Whatever you work with most frequently,
focus on that.  It doesn't matter if there are several more CCIE's with R/S
out there, what matters is you are the best at what you do.  Once you
achieve this you can move on to anything you want without second guessing
yourself.



-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Syed Khalid Ali
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:30 AM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] CCIE Voice or CCIE R&S

Dear all,

I have a data network background and for last 1.5 years I am working
more R&S and Security stuff. However during my course toward CCVP, I
did some projects of IP telephony (specifically CME) as well. I also
inherited a CallManager 4.2 setup as well.

However, I am not able to decide b/w the two. Should I go for CCIE R&S
or Voice. R&S is easy as compared to Voice in terms of time and
resources and most of the people have attained this title. Whereas the
Voice track although focused on product instead of technologies, the
resources are rare (at-least in my country) and requires more time to
be prepared.
Need suggestions and advice!

-- 
Thanks,
Syed Khalid Ali
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