[asterisk-biz] Digium certified asterisk professional or CCIEVOIP

[C. Savinovich]

Let's be realistic.  

 

1)      Get a domain name and drop your gmail account, if you wanted to sell
me a PBX an you had a gmail account, I would ask you for a Cisco
certification too.

2)      If you are setting up an Asterisk PBX as a consultant, most likely
customers will not be concerned if you are certified or not (if you come
across as a professional).  It will be a matter of if you can do it or not,
of course with all the dire consequences that come when you say that you can
do something that you can't really do.

3)      If you are looking for work and they ask you if you are Cisco
certified, that's because Cisco gives 30% discount on purchases to companies
that employ Cisco certified personnel.  Because of that, no matter what
amount of begging, promising, and assurances you can give to your
prospective employers that you are more knowledgeable than a Cisco certified
person, they will not hire you.  They are looking to get their discount,
period.

4)      You said you have setup your first asterisk pbx with 2 sip
telephones connecting to each other, or something like that?... I don't know
how you present yourself, perhaps you are coming across in such as way that
makes your prospective customers require from you more assurances that you
can do the job. this I say as a guess, excuse me if I am guessing wrong. 

 

Best regards

CS

 

 

Folks,

 

I would like to start a VOIP consultancy services in my area (Silicon
Valley), and considering one of these certifications.

I am familiar with asterisk and have played with it at home by setting up a
linux based PBX for interconnection 2 SIP phones, but have no professional
certifications to put my customers at ease when trying to hire me to to
fix/install their VOIP systems.

 

Any suggestions ?

 

thanks.

George...

 

 

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