Career Advancing - Possibly CISCO

I've just finished a BSc along similar lines to some of the CCNA/NP but with a lot more depth and a lot of stuff you don't learn in the cisco textbooks. I've also started my CCNA as well.

Whoever further up said that cisco isn't the be all and end-all is correct. While it is a good qualification to have, it shouldn't be the only one. One bloke on our course had done all of the cisco crap and really struggled on the content because it hadn't really taught him anything.