[97402] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 24x7 Support Strategies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Stickland)
Thu Jun 14 07:52:54 2007
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:48:40 +0100
From: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists@spacething.org>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <A0557C1F-E33E-455B-BAF2-D1538BA5CC11@ca.afilias.info>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Joe Abley wrote:
>
> On 14-Jun-2007, at 02:32, Sam Stickland wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have any CCIE (or equivalent technical ability) staff on
>> a 24x7 shift? What about CCIE level staff on an on-call rota with a
>> garanteed response time? How about CCNP?
>
> Does anybody actually put any stock in the presence or absence of
> vendor certifications on a resume when judging the capabilities of an
> engineer?
>
> There's no correlation between certification and capability, in my
> experience.
I fully agree with you Joe, but I needed to quantify the level of
technical expertise somehow. I think most people have some kind of a
feel for what level we are talking about if we say "equivalent techincal
ability to CCIE", even if there are CCIEs out there who are useless ;)
S
