I meet a CCIE

So I work for a mid size ISP in Canada. And on Friday we had a loop in one of the PE routers that started to spread across the MPLS network. I am a level 1 network admin so the level 3 people came down to see what was happening and one of one was a CCIE. We just hired him and he's only 27 years old after he fixed the issue I got to pick Brain a little and I wow I got a lil star struck for some reason.

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Roguetadhg

Turgon wrote: »

The blackbelt, the doctorate of networking..elite special forces..there is a reason why they say so

CCIE:SP Ops are the special forces!

Guns and everything!

tr1x

Did he fix the problem by just looking at the router?

dead_p00l

tr1x wrote: »

Did he fix the problem by just looking at the router?

Those are the truly elite. When the literally just stare the router into submission and the problems go away.

Turgon

Roguetadhg wrote: »

CCIE:SP Ops are the special forces!

Guns and everything!

A CCIE of any flavour is special forces and some are oil and water that dont mix. When you have a situation, you need the right one, and they all have guns

xbuzz

It must have been very much like this video. Imagine cunningham being in level 1 support, and the bullies being the networking problem!
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Hope you got his autograph!

Shanman

I love that scene!!

CCIEs are rocks stars!!

stlsmoore

The first CCIE I met I didn't realize it, he was the NOC Manager and he hired me. I was a little star struck too when I found out, glad I didn't know at interview time lol.

xbuzz

This one is good too, CCIE entering CCNA's lunch room!

Intel Rock Star Spot - YouTube

aldous

nah the real specops guys at cisco are tacops Cisco Tactical Operations - Doing Business With Cisco - Cisco Systems they have kick ass trucks and roll in to disaster area's to set up comms! all they need is thunderbird 2!

Vontech615

Did he give you any great insights or just robotically tell you how he executed the solution?