Rapid increase in CCIE numbers

It seems like a short time ago CCIE #'s were in the 7,000-10,000 range, then blammo, we're up to like 17,000. Is it India?

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markzab

Noticed that.

What was it back in the day around the new millenium? Something like 6-7000?

mikej412

Just grabbing some #s from groupstudy and doing the math (with quick rounding, could easily be off a few hundred per year)

2000-2001 1200
2001-2002 2300
2002-2003 2800
2003-2004 1000
2004-2005 1500
2005-2006 1400
2006-2007 1500

Looks like the CCIE was popular back during the Internet Gold Rush.... and has leveled off.

I started in March 2000.... # was around 5650 in March 2000.... now in 17300s+
And then I checked each year in March for a current #....

But remember, 1 number per CCIE, and there are a bunch of CCIEs who have passed multiple tracks.

I guess you could keep an eye on CCIE Worldwide Statistics to get an idea where the new CCIEs are.

DW [banned]

Thanks

Darthn3ss

looks like there are more in china and the US than anywhere else..

china has 2000...

DW [banned]

No biggie...

only about 4500 in the USA...

Figure Cisco holds about 3000 or so of these.

Leaves about 1500, and about 500 work for non-Partners or are trainers etc.

Means only about 1000 people to compete with.

Explains things a bit.

20 CCIE's per state more or less to actually compete with.

Hmmm...

My state has more but who's counting.

mikej412

mikej412 wrote:

I guess you could keep an eye on CCIE Worldwide Statistics to get an idea where the new CCIEs are.

The new numbers are out for 04.2.2007

I printed out the numbers at the top and North America when I first posted that, so comparing the numbers that I have...... lost 2 triple CCIEs in the last 2 months

                                        04.2.2007    02.1.2007
Total of Worldwide CCIEs:               14,387       +201
Total of Routing and Switching CCIEs:   13408        +177
Total of Security CCIEs:                906          +14
Total of Service Provider CCIEs:        474          +29
Total of Storage Networking CCIEs:      70           +7
Total of Voice CCIEs:                   445          +34


Multiple Certifications:				

Many CCIEs have gone on to pass the certification exams in additional tracks, becoming a multiple CCIE. Below are selected statistics on CCIEs who are certified in more than one track.				
Total with multiple certifications worldwide:                 1113    +44
Total of Routing and Switching and Security CCIEs:            589     +7
Total of Routing and Switching and Service Provider CCIEs:    359     +16
Total of Routing and Switching and Storage Networking CCIEs:  29      +5
Total of Routing and Switching and Voice CCIEs:               187     +16
Total with 3 or more certifications                           161     -2



Americas                      5368      +43
     North America            5116      +40
        Canada                592       +8
        Mexico                75        +1
        USA                   4449      +31
     Caribbean, South America, Central America  +3

Slowhand

It's a brave, new world out there in IT land. Looks like the competition's driving up expectations for all of us. Maybe it's a good thing, though. . . maybe my name will have one of those 20,000+ numbers next to it one day.

(Well, considering when I'd get my lazy ass in gear, I'd probably have the very first six-digit CCIE.

)

Webmaster

Interesting stats. Earlier stats (back to Sep 2005) can be found here:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/certified_ccies/worldwide.html

A quick overview of the Total nr of CCIEs:

08.1.2005 - 12,421
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10.1.2005 - 12,600
11.1.2005 - 12,690
12.1.2005 - 12,792
01.1.2006 - 12,862
02.1.2006 - 12,967
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04.1.2006 - 13,161
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08.1.2006 - 13,602

As you can see, it used to be around 90 per month, and combined with Mike's post (201 over 2 months) it hasn't changed that much.