From: Jason Sinclair (sinclairj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 22:04:27 GMT-3
All,
Although this advice is somewhat correct I would reiterate that ISDN is an
excellent investment. Rather than purchase an ISDN switch for say $3k I
rented an ISDN link from my local Telco (2 B channels) and dialled
back-to-back. This cost me around $700 all told with call costs, etc. I
would recommend this approach to others. This let me practise and study ISDN
every day as opposed to a once off couple of weeks on an on-line rack. This
was just my thoughts.
Cheers,
Jason Sinclair CCIE #9100
Manager, Network Support Group
POWERTEL
Ground Level, 55 Clarence Street,
SYDNEY NSW 2000
AUSTRALIA
office: + 61 2 8264 3820
mobile: + 61 416 105 858
* sinclairj@powertel.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Denise Donohue [mailto:fradendon@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 16 April 2002 09:26
To: Sam.MicroGate@usa.telekom.de; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: ISDN Simulator or 2901 switch
This is just my opinion (and notice that there are no
numbers after my
name!), but I haven't gotten an ISDN simulator or a Cat5K,
or a 3920. The
majority of the exam is on routers, and it is important to
have those. You
also need a switch that can do VLANs. But I've taken the
money I would have
spent on ISDN and a Cat5, and rented time on online racks
instead. If you
get one that has ISDN, ATM, 3920 and Cat5 (I use
www.routopia.com) then you
can practice everything for weeks, and come out ahead
money-wise. For
practice scenarios where you really need a dialup
connection, I just use
aux-to-aux.
Hope this helps.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On
Behalf Of
Sam.MicroGate@usa.telekom.de
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:06 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: ISDN Simulator or 2901 switch
I am trying to buy some equipments for my lab and I have a
limited budget.
My question to you, which one should I buy ISDN Simulator or
2901 switch? I
need both of them to finish up labs and scenarios but I
cannot do so. I have
to buy only one piece of those. Thanks for your bright
ideas.
Elsayed Mohamed
Sr. Network Consultant
Microgateds, Inc.
732-936-4413
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