Back on July 8 the CCIE Number stood at 21419, it reached 21809 on August 20, this increase of 390 new CCIEs divided by 43 days, works out to an average of 9 newly minted CCIEs per day.
| 21809 - CCIE Number as of August 20 2008
1024 - Beginning CCIE Number issued August 1993 20785 - CCIE Numbers earned 17660 - Total worldwide CCIE count as of August 1 2008 3125 - Potential inactive CCIE Numbers |
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For the first six months of 2008, privately held network performance management software vendor, NetQoS based in Austin - Texas, is reporting very exciting as well as extraordinary global top line growth within the region of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, sales soared 160 percent year-over-year from the first six months of 2007!
 "Despite a slowing global economy, NetQoS has continued its strong, profitable growth with a very successful first half of the year," said Joel Trammell - CEO of NetQoS.
"NetQoS has now recorded 29 consecutive quarters of double-digit year-over-year growth." |
"To maintain and build upon this during an economic downturn is testament to the strength of our global business."
"NetQoS continues to stay ahead of the market through a commitment to innovation that supports customers’ changing needs and allows them to manage critical application performance across the most complex networks."
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According to RBC Capital Markets, Aruba is making progress with new customer acquisitions.
RBC Capital Markets Managing Director - Mark Sue commented to yours truly:
 "Aruba's results this Thursday evening may show further signs of stabilization and we're expecting encouraging results as the wireless vendor closes out its fiscal year."
"Revenues may grow 10% sequentially and reach $47.0M vs. our printed expectations of $46.5M." |
"Non-GAAP results may be closer to break even vs. our estimate of a loss of ($0.01) as the company exercised tight expense control."
"Considering, multiple compression in the group nonetheless, our price target moves to $8."
"Rating unchanged at Sector Perform."
"Aruba will be entering a seasonally weaker quarter and may point to mixed overall dynamics offset by market share gains as the company enters the fall."
"With a book to bill greater than 1.0, Aruba may provide revenue guidance in a range of $48M to $51M vs. the current consensus of $49M."
"We're not of the view that Aruba may provide full year guidance considering the limited industry visibility."
"Our FY09 estimates calls for 16% YoY top line growth to $204M and incorporates the AirWave acquisition."
"Aruba is executing well in certain verticals such as federal, healthcare, education, and industrial."
"Checks show continued challenges in retail and manufacturing however."
"Checks also indicate firming enterprise trends in North America and no increased deterioration."
"Having said that, the urgency may still not be there when it comes to broad based wireless projects."
"No change was observed in the competitive environment in terms of pricing so we expect Aruba to reiterates its gross margin range of 65-68%."
"Good mix despite Aruba's reliance on two tier distribution may keep margins near the upper end of this range in our view."
"Aruba is making progress with new customer acquisitions, a good sign for future growth opportunities."
"Aruba is also benefiting for the ramp in the wireless N upgrade (mostly with education verticals), ahead of the formal ratification of the standards."
"Aruba's current families of products are software upgradeable to N."
"The situation is solidifying for Aruba Networks and the company seems to be improving its execution across expectations which were reset earlier this year."
"We look for additional consistency as Aruba expands its customer base and further drives its wireless solutions to its end customers."
"Aruba's shares currently trade at 2.1x our CY09 revenue estimate net cash."
"Our price target is $8 and is between 3.0x our CY09E revenues net cash and 26x our CY09E EPS."
"Although current group multiple is 20x, we believe the above average top line growth rate for the company may justify a higher PE multiple."
"Impediments to our price target include competitive pressures, pricing concerns, macro weakness in IT spending and execution risk."
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For the first time ever, four top Malaysian graduates have been selected to attend the one-year Cisco Associate Systems Engineers (ASE) training program taught at the Cisco Research Triangle Park, North Carolina campus.
 Cisco Associate Systems Engineers are typically engineering or computer science majors who are skilled at taking the needs of a customer and designing networking solutions to meet those needs.
Cisco ASEs undergo a rigorous training curriculum, comprising 80% technology and 20% soft skills training. Towards the second half of the program, they are assigned to sales managers and become involved in actual customer engagements. |
At the end of the training, they become fully-qualified Cisco systems engineers.
Cisco Associate Systems Engineer Program Requirements:
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Graduated within the last two years with a Bachelor or Masters degree, equivalent to top 40% in your class, grade point average of 3.0 or higher preferred |
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University disciplines: Engineering/IT/Computer Science/Technology |
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A Networking specialization would be an advantage |
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Basic Networking Knowledge expected - Knowledge and experience in LAN/WAN architecture, ISO/OSI, protocols (TCP/IP-Protocol-Suite) |
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Able to demonstrate technical knowledge and consultative skills with a sales aptitude |
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Knowledge and experience in different OS (Windows, Linux etc.) |
Note: Cisco encourages diversity of experience, culture as well as education and will consider other technical degree disciplines for exceptional candidates.
Cisco ASE Skill Requirements:
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Goal oriented |
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Demonstrated ability to act as a team player |
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Well organized and able to plan |
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Open to receiving feedback and committed to self-development |
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Self motivated |
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Flexible, adaptable and open to change |
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Enjoy working with people |
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Able to take the lead |
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Strong work ethic |
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Excellent communication and presentation skills |
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Enjoy taking responsibility and being accountable |
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Strong computer skills |
Cisco ASE Experience and Language Requirements:
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Experience may consist of technical work placements, internships, entrepreneurial programs or summer jobs. |
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You should be able to demonstrate significant experience of taking part in extra-curricular activities. You should demonstrate a clear desire to work in a sales environment with a specialization in Technology. |
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You should be fluent in written and verbal English. This is essential as the first year of the program will be conducted in this language. |
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You should be fluent in written and verbal communication in the language of your country of hire is also vital to ensure you have the opportunity to develop a successful career. |
Yours truly recommends three ways of seeking consideration for acceptance into the Cisco ASE Program:
| 1. | Contact your local Cisco Sales Office |
| 2. | Contact your local Cisco Channel Account Manager |
| 3. | Try a search on the Cisco Career Connection (you might get lucky and actually get a result, but don't hold your breath) |
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Hopefully, this blog will be helpful to individuals interested in learning about Cisco Internship Programs.
To learn more, start by selecting a geographic location:
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Email: ask-intern@cisco.com
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Eight lucky Westwood College Cisco Networking Academy students worked alongside Cisco engineers to install more than 700 voice over IP (VoIP) telephones, a wireless service canopy and Cisco routers and switches that have transformed Denver's Pepsi Center into a global hub for collaboration and communication as this week's host for the Democratic National Convention.
Westwood College Cisco Networking Academy Students:
 "This is a-once-in-a-lifetime learning opportunity for our Computer Network Management students," said Clay Chandler - national program advisor for the Cisco Networking Academy at Westwood College.
"Most people take for granted that the telephone, Internet access and secure data networks are always available, but in fact, the technologies behind those tools are extraordinarily complex." |
"The fact that Westwood students were selected by Cisco after a rigorous selection process demonstrates how capable our students are."
The eight students will work before, during and after the convention to install Cisco solutions, conduct monitoring of those solutions, and staff the I.T. help desk.
Their work will allow political reporters and bloggers to post the latest news from the convention floor to the Internet in real time as well as provide the communications backbone for thousands of conventioneers, delegates and political operatives.
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The Democratic National Convention Committee is promising that the 2008 Democratic National Convention will be a technological marvel.
From a technical standpoint, people around the world will view Senator Barack Obama’s historic nomination with the help of the most advanced technology available.
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Inc. Magazine is reporting that the revenue of privately held and well known CCIE trainer - IPexpert, soared 329 percent between the years 2004 and 2007, reaching $4 million.
Many CCIEs are familiar with IPexpert's CCIE Success Stories.
This was the second consecutive year that IPexpert ranked on the Inc. 5000 list.
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#20 in Michigan |
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#1137 of 5000 overall |
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#14 in the Detroit-metro region |
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#13 among Education companies nationwide |
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Historically, NetFlow had a "performance issue" and consequently was not often enabled on Cisco routers.
For example, early versions of NetFlow could not handle the number of flows in case of DDoS attacks and the network would melt down.
Since then Cisco has dramatically improved NetFlow and these reasons are no longer valid.
Today’s NetFlow is a light weight, scalable and cost effective means of monitoring the network without having to deploy costly probes.
Whether or not you’ve bought into the concept of NetFlow for the following capabilities, NetFlow is a low-risk, low cost, high yield way of gathering visibility across your networks.
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Introducing the newest addition to Cisco Tools:
Lancope NetFlow Bandwidth Calculator
A free utility that helps you gauge the impact of enabling NetFlow on your network.
Just input your flow format and the rate per second/minute, and this utility will quickly calculate the network impact of enabling NetFlow from your routers and switches.
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Benefits of using NetFlow:
| 1. | Investigate threshold exceptions. |
| 2. | Find top talkers on your network. |
| 3. | Compare application usage patterns. |
| 4. | Identify applications on your network. |
| 5. | Detect anomalous activity and policy violations by user. |
| 6. | Understand bandwidth utilization and growth to plan for future capacity requirements. |
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This is the kickoff blog of Cisco gone wild, a new blog series dedicated to freeing precious gems of information that are hidden within the Cisco website.
Cisco has produced a quality 16 page university course style:
Job Search Best Practice Guide
Although it fails to mention placing your desire to relocate (along with your geographic preferences) near the top of your resume (see these infamous resume tips), it does mention the following:
Recruiters and head hunters are always on the search to fill job positions online through job boards.
Yours truly recommends posting your resume for FREE among the 642 Cisco certified network engineers from 65 countries featured on BradReese.Com, as well as searching the 27,200 current Cisco job openings worldwide.
Also, the up-and-coming Cisco Partner Talent Network website is where this hidden gem, the job search best practice guide was discovered.
Other great information contained within this guide:
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Three step process of getting a job |
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Resume guide |
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Example of a resume |
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Cover letter guide |
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Example of a cover letter |
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Frequently asked interview questions |
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Networking is key |
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Use a search firm or head hunter |
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According to RBC Capital Markets, carrier spending lulls are creating some headwinds for JDSU.
RBC Capital Markets Managing Director - Mark Sue commented to yours truly:
| "Forward earnings variability remains high for JDSU as evidenced by yesterday's results."
"Revenues of $391M were near the midpoint of the company's guidance range yet the mix of business was not what was expected creating a drop in margins and a subsequent EPS miss: $0.07 vs. the consensus of $0.10." |
"Guidance despite a book to bill greater than 1.0 is not too inspiring either with revenues of $378M to $394M vs. the consensus of $400M."
"Including optical component deferrals (supply constraints) into the December quarter, guidance would've been $10M higher."
"At the moment, the stock is trading at 15X our adjusted CY09 earnings of $0.80."
"Considering the lumpiness of the business and some near term wireline capex pauses, we're maintaining our Sector Perform rating."
"JDSU is aiming to streamline its operations to help the company achieve its longer term operating margin targets."
"CommTest revenues were $171M growing just 1% sequentially with some spending caution expressed by tier two carriers."
"JDSU is also expecting flattish cable carrier spending this year offset by growth in the fiber segment."</
