The Five Hottest Skills for Your Networking Career — Network World

The five hot­test skills for your net­work­ing career — Network World: “Cliff Samuels Jr: What are the five top hot­test Cisco skills to learn today to stay ahead of the curve in a net­work­ing career? Is it VOIP, IPV6…

Neil_​Anderson: I would say the abso­lute top five are: secur­ity, mobil­ity, uni­fied communications/​VoIP, video over IP, and applic­a­tion accel­er­a­tion.”

My view­point

If you accept the above com­ment (and I do not com­pletely agree) then what I see is that Layer 7 skills that are in demand. All of the these tech­no­lo­gies mean that not only must you have skills in tra­di­tional or core net­work­ing, but you must be lit­er­ate in tech­no­lo­gies such as oper­at­ing sys­tems, pro­tocol mech­an­ics, applicaton con­fig­ur­a­tion, ser­vice deliv­ery. Plus you need to com­mu­nic­ate with busi­ness folks to be suc­cess­ful at Layer 7 ser­vice delivery.

Layer 7 is valu­able because you have more and /​ or wider skills than any­one else not because it is inher­ently magical. Routing and switch­ing is a fun­da­mental skill­set, not the end of the road. Its up to you to choose your path.

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