newbie to the group / career change
weslakerudy
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Hi Rudy here from Norcal.
Looking for a career change from programming up till 18 years ago (Unix and C) and since then been in the telecom world. My network experience is limited but I have done network cabling (setting up backbones from patch panel to station). Also, working with voicemail systems, have gotten into CTI integrations, you know voice messages to inbox etc... some VoIP and played some with TCP/IP configurations and IP addressing since our voicemails run under Linux and integrated with the network.
I guess I would be starting from the beginning to grasp all the idiosyncracies (sp). What is your recommendations for learning IE: tech school, Cisco partner...? I'm not networked challenged but want to grasp all from the basics to administering a network.
I've been looking at the responses posted, checked out the videos and am very intrigued.
With my backround, would getting a CCNA get my foot in the door or will it be the ol' "you need experience" circle? I did that route when I got into programming!
Any advise is GREATLY appreciated.
Rudy
Looking for a career change from programming up till 18 years ago (Unix and C) and since then been in the telecom world. My network experience is limited but I have done network cabling (setting up backbones from patch panel to station). Also, working with voicemail systems, have gotten into CTI integrations, you know voice messages to inbox etc... some VoIP and played some with TCP/IP configurations and IP addressing since our voicemails run under Linux and integrated with the network.
I guess I would be starting from the beginning to grasp all the idiosyncracies (sp). What is your recommendations for learning IE: tech school, Cisco partner...? I'm not networked challenged but want to grasp all from the basics to administering a network.
I've been looking at the responses posted, checked out the videos and am very intrigued.
With my backround, would getting a CCNA get my foot in the door or will it be the ol' "you need experience" circle? I did that route when I got into programming!
Any advise is GREATLY appreciated.
Rudy
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Daniel333
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Hey!
CCNA is a great place to get started, but you are also going to be expected to know at least one client OS well and certainly more down the road. In that case you just need to decide Linux or Windows.-Daniel -
Plazma
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The CCNA is a great way to really get into networking.. it lays a great foundation for further networking or allows you to better understand what's really happening across those fancy blue/orange cables.CCIE - COMPLETED!