RE: You know a 1 day remote lab would not be limited to small number of Devices.

From: Jason Gardiner (gardiner@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 14:45:31 GMT-3


   
I'd include getting an Engine 4 line card to work properly :)

Thanks,

Jason Gardiner
Supervisor, Engineering Services
Sprint E|Solutions

"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and
still come out completely dry. Most people do."

- Norton Juster

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, R. Scott King wrote:

> Personally I would love to se the new C&S lab (which is supposed to be
> Service Provider-oriented) consist of 4 GSRs, one of which is trying to do
> ATM to Call Manager, two are aggregating PVCs, and one is just switching
> packets. Then let's have a 6400 with full Internet routes in its BGP table
> (on an NRP-1). Hook all of it to a Sun Ultra-10 server running DNS for half
> the country. Anyone who works for a major Service Provider knows that this
> can be done in a single day. ;-)
>
> Anything you want to add, Morris?
>
> Scott King
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Michael Snyder
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:52 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: OT: You know a 1 day remote lab would not be limited to small
> number of Devices.
>
>
> Just read a message about OSPF limits not being a problem in the lab. It
> started me thinking out of the box.
>
> Fact One: We don't want the CCIE test to be devalued.
>
> Fact Two: CCIE is an Enterprise Level Certification.
>
> I think if Cisco wants to use (which they do) the technical advantages of
> remote equipment, then they should go all the way. I mean your $1250
> testing
> fee should get you a test on 40, maybe 50 pieces of wan equipment setup as a
> large international WAN. (all mocked up in single room buried deep in the
> Cisco campus).
>
> You would have 9 hours to repair, review, debug, upgrade, etc. Throw in
> some
> poor ip addresses that can't be summarized, access lists that 9 different
> people have worked on. Gee, I can think of some real world examples they
> could just import the configs! <smile>.
>
> You have 9 hours to get an enterprise level wan, up to speed, including
> Multihoming BGP issues with a full bgp routing table. Think of the failure
> rate. <grin>
>
> In the future, the new CCIE's may look back at us, and say we had it easy.
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