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January 2012 Cisco CCIE count

It is estimated that 23% of all Cisco CCIEs over the years have decided to drop from the status of active and/or suspended to the status of inactive.

Wed, 2/15/12 - 6:15pm    View comments

Jerome TissieresGeorge MortonEarlier this month Ticino, Switzerland based network engineering manager Jerome Tissieres provided us with a slide presentation (page 5) that updated Cisco's CCIE track count as of January 9, 2012.

View the updated 9-year CCIE track count as well as the historical 11-year worldwide Cisco CCIE count by country.

The following is an analysis of the updated Cisco CCIE track count by Dual CCIE #18532 Security/R&S George Morton:

Cisco Certified CCIECiscoIt's been eleven months since we've seen any CCIE numbers from Cisco. Until April 2010, the CCIE numbers came from the Cisco website, now we get them from time to time after Cisco makes a presentation that I get a copy of (thank you Jerome Tissieres) when Cisco decides to let us know a thing or two. So the numbers are a bit mixed up and the multiple-CCIE counts are projections based on a pie chart. Well something is better than nothing.

Facts and figures:

  1. Historically the run rate over the last ten years is around 200 new CCIE a month. In the last eleven months the run rate was 350 a month.
  2. For those that don't follow the count according to IPexpert.com the highest reporting CCIE number is: 34608 so 34608 - 1024 = 33,584 have passed and become CCIEs. It is estimated that ~7,900 CCIEs, (23% of all CCIEs) over the years have decided to drop from active and/or suspended to inactive status.
  3. Of the three global regions (Americas, EMEA, and Asia), Asia now has the largest number of CCIEs, the Americas and EMEA look to be tied, figure 30-30-40 as the split. That is a major change from historical norms where the Americas led in total CCIE counts.
  4. The decline in new Router/Switch CCIEs. This could be due to the number of CCIEs not retaking the CCIE Written. Active R/S - Inactive R/S.
  5. Over the eleven month period the Security, Service Provider and Voice CCIE tracks had more successful CCIE candidates pass the lab. I think this is not a one time event but a shift in the market; away from the more mature Router/Switch markets. Some of the decline in R/S CCIEs can also be attributed to the growth of inactive R/S CCIEs from earlier times when R/S dominated the CCIE program.
  6. For the first time I have numbers to report for the Cisco CCDE and CCAr certifications.
Cisco CCIE Track Count on January 9, 2012
Source: Dual CCIE George Morton
 

CCIE Information World Wide
Source: Cisco
 

CCIE R&S vs all other tracks
Source: Cisco
 

CCIE status and per region
Source: Cisco
 

Total EMEA CCIEs by region
Source: Cisco
 

CCIE R&S: Permanent Lab Locations
Source: Cisco
 

Once more, view the updated 9-year CCIE track count as well as the historical 11-year worldwide Cisco CCIE count by country.

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Updated worldwide CCIE count
 


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