innovation
1st CCIE award
1993
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Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert, or CCIE, is a technical certification offered by Cisco Systems. The first certification awarded was numbered 1024, a nod to the unreserved port numbers in TCP/IP.
By January 2000, 4451 people worldwide acheived CCIE status. By Novemember 2017, 59,737 CCIEs were listed in the Hall of Fame.