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| Originally Posted by bobmay None of us has the time in our fast paced production environments to cross train. |
You may not have time during the day to cross train, but both data and telecom have jobs that must be done after hours if necessary. Data might have to add a new router, or change the IP addresses on a segment of the LAN. Telecom might have a move for a bunch of people, or a system upgrade, or just rebooting the Intuity. You could offer to be a spare pair of hands when needed and give them the same opportunity. That is one way to learn the other product.
As far as pay scale, the only ones I know that can ask (and get) a near six figure income are those with pockets full of Microsoft and Cisco certificates plus a few years using that knowledge. Avaya, Nortel, and Siemens certificates do not have the same weight with HR.
When I was looking for a job last year, and I have pockets full of Avaya certificates, one of the places I applied to had an Avaya S8710 with twenty S8300 LSPs. I had actually been one of the techs that installed this system but the job went to a person that had CCNA and CCIE certificates who had never done any phone work.