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Cisco's plan to triple global pool of network engineers | Cisco's plan to triple global pool of network engineers |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 25 June 2008 | |
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Faced with a dire, and growing, shortage of skilled network engineers, Cisco has launched a number of initiatives to help meet its goal of doubling or tripling the global pool over Cisco-certified engineers over the next five years.Featured Whitepaper
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Firstly Cisco has unveiled the Cisco Learning Network , designed for both the seasoned professional and for individuals considering a career in information technology. It is billed as a Web 2.0 community that enables networking professionals to collaborate globally through document sharing, open forum discussions and idea exchanges in a dedicated environment. Second, Cisco has announced a major augmentation of its popular associate-level career certification with the introduction of three concentrations: CCNA Security , CCNA Voice and CCNA Wireless . Cisco says that by expanding on the competencies and skills in the CCNA curriculum, these highly specialised concentrations offer individuals a career stepping-stone into the converged technologies that make up today's sophisticated networks. These latest moves are on top of an announcement by Cisco in February of a series of initiatives in India that it hoped would produce 360,000 trained network engineers in five years that would, according to Cisco, increase the pool of network engineers six-fold. CONTINUED |
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