> MANUFAC. Pieces oF Equip in Market #of People > Qualified > > Juniper 50,000 > 3000 > Cisco 6,000,000 > 80,000 > > 74 Pieces Per Cisco qualified tech > 16 pieces per Juniper Tech > > Looks like a lot more competition for the Juniper jobs.
I believe you've made a mistake. You're only looking at the number of pieces as an indicator of demand Whereas, I believe a much better gauge is the complexity of the pieces. I got an excellent example for you. The CCIE R/S lab has 6 routers and 2 switches. But I think most people here would agree that the lab is still no cake-walk. Why not - it's only 8 pieces. But it's not how many pieces you got, it's what you are doing with them. And consider this. Core provider routers that Juniper specializes in are inevitably doing a heck of a lot more than cisco enterprise routers. They will most likely have more interfaces, more redundancy, and more complex routing protocols that are harder to configure and therefore require more expertise. For example, I would say that a 100-router enterprise network running static routes and RIPv2 is not as hard to maintain compared to a 6-8 Juniper router ISP core running IS-IS and BGP. I believe the real gauge of demand is money, how much did you spend. Generally speaking, the more expensive a network, the more important it must be for the organization (if the network was not that important, then why spend all that money on it?). Then.,the more important a network is, the more complex the network tends to get (i.e. it will have more redundancy, and require more tuning, and more complex routing, etc. etc.). Finally, the more complex the network, the more expertise you require to design and maintain it. So it all comes down to money - revenue. If a manager decides to spend $X on a network, I don't think he would find it unreasonable to spend 1/10 of X on consulting expertise on the network - regardless of whether X bought you 10 routers or a 1000. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=24467&t=24336 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
