{"id":10843,"date":"2014-12-23T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T19:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2014-12-23T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T19:35:07","slug":"marco-engineers-earn-top-cisco-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2014\/12\/marco-engineers-earn-top-cisco-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Engineers Earn Top Cisco Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dec. 19, 2014<\/em> \u2013 Marco, Inc. is pleased to announce Marco engineers Clay Ostlund and Nick Thompson\u00a0completed their Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification in Brussels, Belgium. This\u00a0designation is accepted worldwide as the most prestigious networking certification in the industry.\u00a0Network engineers holding an active Cisco CCIE certification are recognized for their expert network\u00a0engineering skills and mastery of Cisco products and solutions. Through a rigorous written exam and a\u00a0performance based lab, the CCIE program sets the standard for internetworking expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Ostlund began at Marco in 2006 as a systems engineer and is currently the sales engineering manager.\u00a0He has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry. Thompson is a senior network engineer with 17\u00a0years of experience in the IT industry and has been with Marco since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco introduced the CCIE certification in 1993 to assist the industry in distinguishing the top\u00a0internetworking experts worldwide. Today CCIE certification holders represent less than three percent\u00a0of all certified Cisco professionals and less than one percent of networking professionals worldwide.\u00a0Marco specializes in business IT services, cloud\/hosted services, managed services, carrier services,\u00a0copiers\/printers, phone systems, document management and audio\/video systems. Marco serves\u00a0customers nationally with offices in Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and\u00a0Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 19, 2014 \u2013 Marco, Inc. is pleased to announce Marco engineers Clay Ostlund and Nick Thompson\u00a0completed their Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification in Brussels, Belgium. This\u00a0designation is accepted worldwide as the most prestigious networking certification in the industry.\u00a0Network engineers holding an active Cisco CCIE certification are recognized for their expert network\u00a0engineering skills and mastery of Cisco products and solutions. Through a rigorous written exam and a\u00a0performance based lab, the CCIE program sets the standard for internetworking expertise. Ostlund began at Marco in 2006 as a systems engineer and is currently the sales engineering manager.\u00a0He has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry. Thompson is a senior network engineer with 17\u00a0years of experience in the IT industry and has been with Marco since 2011. Cisco introduced the CCIE certification in 1993 to assist the industry in distinguishing the top\u00a0internetworking experts worldwide. Today CCIE certification holders represent less than three percent\u00a0of all certified Cisco professionals and less than one percent of networking professionals worldwide.\u00a0Marco specializes in business IT services, cloud\/hosted services, managed services, carrier services,\u00a0copiers\/printers, phone systems, document management and audio\/video systems. Marco serves\u00a0customers nationally with offices in Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and\u00a0Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[2014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10844,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions\/10844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}