Back on July 8 the CCIE Number stood at 21419, it reached 21809 on August 20, this increase of 390 new CCIEs divided by 43 days, works out to an average of 9 newly minted CCIEs per day.
| 21809 - CCIE Number as of August 20 2008
1024 - Beginning CCIE Number issued August 1993 20785 - CCIE Numbers earned 17660 - Total worldwide CCIE count as of August 1 2008 3125 - Inactive CCIE Numbers |
 Regarding the inclusion in the worldwide count of individuals whose CCIE number is in "suspended status," Fred Weiller - Director of Marketing for Learning@Cisco, provided Cisco's official response:
"Currently 'suspended' CCIE's are included in the published worldwide statistics." |
"As these candidates are eligible to recertify, we believe that we should continue to count them as part of our global community of expert networking professionals."
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