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Joe Harris, CCIE No. 6200 (R&S, Security & SP) is a Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems® specializing in Security. In addition to authoring Cisco Network Security Little Black Book, Joe has also been a technical reviewer for several Cisco Press publications and written articles, white papers, and presentations on various security technologies. He also assists various Certification Partners by beta testing their newest CCIE certification workbooks and has been recognized by Cisco as a 2-Time SE Wall of Fame award winner.

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New Cisco Certification Logo’s?

August 25th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

The Cisco Career Certifications team is requesting your opinion on certification-related logos. Cisco is asking certified professionals to provide feedback on the logos that will represent Cisco Career Certifications on learning materials, in our communications to you, as well as on promotional items such as shirts, hats, and jackets. By completing this short survey, your insight will help define the logo design used to reflect your personal achievement in obtaining CCIE certification. Your participation in this survey is greatly appreciated. The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete. Please provide feedback on the survey no later than August 29, 2008.

To launch the survey, go to: Cisco Certification Survey

In case you don't want to take the survey and just want to see the logo's being considered, I have them shown below:

First Logo Second Logo

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    Comment by CN7 on 25 August 2008:

    is CSCO serious with this? these logos are disgustingly ugly..the current logos are just fine.. why does everyone have to go and ruin a good thing!

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    Comment by Joe Harris on 25 August 2008:

    I’m afraid so and I’m no fan of them either :-)

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    Comment by Stephen Riddle on 26 August 2008:

    I’m no fan of the new logos either. Looks like Cisco may be altering the professional level designations in the near future…

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    Comment by etherealmind on 26 August 2008:

    I also agree. I won’t be proud of putting that on my resume or web site.

    Urh, what are they thinking ?

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    Comment by James on 29 October 2008:

    I disagree and think that the first logo is the way forward. The current logo is basic, dated and utterly unattractive. I would gladly use this new logo. The second design, on the other hand, is crap.

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    Comment by JD on 1 December 2008:

    Actually, I feel the CCIE level neo logo lettering should be gold filled to create distinction and accomplishment….not that other logos do not represent attainment or skill level. oohray.

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    Comment by krisi on 19 January 2009:

    The old CCIE logos are much more elegant and dignified. I liked the first set of loges except the CCIEs. The second set is really ugly :(

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    Comment by myaboe on 26 January 2009:

    although it looks good but…where is the trademark…the 9 vertical lines that symbolize the cisco signals…

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    Comment by Joe Harris on 27 January 2009:

    Can’t say that I’m a huge fan of them either…I guess the people with multiple CCIE’s will now have to display multiple logo’s as well.

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    Comment by Nick on 18 March 2009:

    I have to agree with the Neo sayers - the new logos are better, and the old logos do look dated to me. Of the two types, I also prefer the first set. The side embelishments are more typical of traditional imagery of this kind.

    Definitely a step forward. Sorry, guys. Just step back a bit and squint your eyes and you’ll see what I’m talking about!

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