The CCIE Certification is an extremely sought after certification not just from an engineering perspective but also a Company perspective. In order for any company to become a Silver or Gold Certified Partner with Cisco, they must have 2 CCIE's full time for Silver and 4 CCIE's full time for Gold. This requirement cannot be waived and this makes the CCIE valuable to companies because when companies have Silver or Gold partnership status they get certain benefits from Cisco such as discounts, access and etc... If you just...