本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛first thing first, seems that you know cisco has been the dominant market player at the time and it certainly needs people who understands what’s running inside of the box, you are right about that. But are you kidding me about the demand of needing such skills has been shrinking? wake up buddy, it’s not because of less demand for these skills, it’s because there are more people with these kind of knowledge. bigger market always require more people to support it. years ago, people with CCNA 都拽的跟八万似的, of cause, now means nothing.

hard for newbies to find a job nowadays is not because less demand for supporting these boxes, it’s because the technology has been out there for a while, many people with years and years of experience.

Convergence is only just getting started. there should be a huge demand for people with convergence skills for a good while. only smaller sized and newer corporations started to deploying IP phones, most of huge companies are still on pbx. also think about the households, soon or later every house phone is going to have an IP address on it.

It’s true that cisco is not the only vender for security, actually they just started to get into security field, and their product sucks. but you know what? people buys it, simply because of compatibility issue. if you are using cisco routers and switches, then what in hell do you want to buy a checkpoint?更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net