24x7 Support Strategies

Thu Jun 14 11:48:40 UTC 2007

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