So finally it’s here. CCIE Collaboration.
Official equipment list is here: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-20807
Lab topics are here: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-20804
A couple of highlights from the announcement.
- Existing CCIE Voice certified engineers will have to take the lab again to be certified as ” CCIE Collaboration”.
- We do have a mention of multiple clusters as opposed to the single cluster in todays lab. So a distributed call processing model is to be expected.
- Video will be prominent on the lab and candidates will have to integrate with “Cisco Jabber Video for Cisco Telepresence” in the backbone.
- UCM version is 9.1 which opens the door for a lot of new features including URI Dialing and ILS.
- Surprisingly SAF/CCD features on the listed topics even though this is potentially on the way out in the long term.
- Security makes it’s way into the lab exam (happy days:-) And Frame Relay is still there!
- Federation and Presence is listed as a topic.
We will take a few days to reflect on the announcement and come back to you with more but for now that’s it.
Vik