Re: [asterisk-biz] Digium certified asterisk professional or CCIEVOIP

 

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...