Cisco VoIP Certifications

Cisco VoIP Certifications
By Network Bulls
Aug 28, 2014
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Voice over Internet Protocol has become a well-known technology in organizations of all sizes that is be it small sized business or medium or large sized enterprises, VoIP has emerged as a standard requirement for many companies worldwide. VoIP is concerned with deploying or managing transfer of information over internet using certain set of rules known as protocols. Designing and deploying of such networks require experienced professionals who are well versed with ins and outs of the relative technology. With ever changing face of the World Wide Web and technologies used to handle the communication process over internet, professionals with the desired VoIP skillset are in a lot of demand.

Once people get a job and get employed in some company/organization, they supposedly learn number of new things and technologies on daily basis adding up to their skillset making it unique and upfront. Having basic knowledge about VoIP technologies of network only might not serve your long term purpose well. Knowing basics of how to maintain VoIP servers and data convergence will not help you in getting higher in your employment anytime. Rather if one specializes in voice and data convergence and becomes an expert paid highly well then his/her career growth becomes beyond limit. But for this purpose clear mapping of plan is required involving gaining the right amount and type of knowledge required.

Need of VoIP Certifications

Let’s take an example which will help you understand the value and need of VoIP certifications more clearly. Say a company has many branches within India and abroad and that particular company’s employees across the world want to communicate with each other using less expensive but a qualitative medium. This became achievable by implementation of certain technologies like Voice over Internet Protocol using IP telephones, etc. Using such technologies require networks to be built by certified professionals. These professionals need some sort of training/certification which has been introduced by Cisco. By introducing VoIP technologies Cisco made possible for companies to cut down additional costs which incurred due to use of normal/regular telephone lines or flying to a common place spending oodles of money on airfares and stay just for the sake of two hours of meeting. With this invention now company employees across different nations/countries can talk to each other via IP Phones or employees sitting in different states or countries can organize a meeting via video conferencing without spending large sum of money.

Building of such networks which enable us to talk or see each other require skilled professionals to create them. Such professionals after completing their CCIE Voice/Collaboration training get a lot in demand as their value increases making them highly desirable and payable employees of the world.

VoIP Certifications

Cisco knowing the importance and value of Voice over Internet Protocol and its relative technologies introduced three levels of certifications, namely:

1. CCNA Voice

2. CCNP Voice

3. CCIE Voice/Collaboration

  • CCNA Voice: VoIP Technologies define a way to transmit voice calls using an IP network which includes digitization and packetization of the voice messages/streams. Cisco Certified Network Associate Voice (CCNA Voice) is concerned with the basics of VoIP Technologies including IP PBX, IP telephony, handset, call control, and voicemail solutions, etc. To pass this certification one needs to take 640-460 Implementing Cisco IOS Unified Communications (IIUC) exam. CCNA Voice certification will lay the foundation of your VoIP career making your basics about the technology sound and strong.
  • CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional): CCNP Voice is a professional level certification in VoIP Technologies offered by Cisco Systems focusing on topics like Unified Communications Manager (formerly Unified Call Manager), quality of service (QOS), gateways, gatekeepers, IP phones, voice applications, and utilities on Cisco routers and Catalyst switches. The Cisco Unity Connection and Cisco Unified Presence application are also included within the syllabus of the CCNP Voice Training program. Candidates are required to take the following exams:

1. 642-437  CVOICE   Implementing Cisco Voice Communications and QoS (CVOICE)

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2. 642-447  CIPT1     Implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Part 1(CIPT1)

3. 642-457  CIPT2     Implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Part 1(CIPT2)

4. 642-427  TVOICE   Troubleshooting Cisco Unified Communications (TVOICE)

5. 642-467  CAPPS     Integrating Cisco Unified Communications Applications (CAPPS)

  • CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert): CCIE Voice was retired by Cisco and CCIE Collaboration was introduced at its place. CCIE Collaboration certification introduced by Cisco Systems is related with VoIP technologies. CCNP level knowledge is a must if one wants to go in for CCIE Collaboration certification. Post completion of CCIE Collaboration certification one gets well equipped with knowledge on topics like Video, Voice, IM presence, and call center solutions. One becomes an expert in integrating, interoperating and troubleshooting complex networks. Network Bulls offers CCIE course training in Gurgaon in one of the biggest Cisco setups and also offers placement facility to our students. Candidate must give the following set of exams in order to be CCIE Collaboration certified:

1. CCIE Collaboration Written Exam- (400-051 CCIE Collaboration)

2. CCIE Collaboration Lab Exam.

Post successful completion of CCIE Voice/Collaboration exam one gets in depth idea about VoIP technologies which gives significant increase to his/her salary package including giving a great deal of knowledge. Once you become a CCIE Voice/Collaboration certified individual, you automatically become the most desired and demanded IT professional of the world. But in most of the companies only experienced CCIE Voice/Collaboration engineers are hired.

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“Dear admin,please knidly up...”
8 years ago

Dear admin,please knidly upatde the Voice part as CCNP Voice already released and the exams changed also kindly can you share if you can provide the exams or not ? we appreciating your reply

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