From: tlarus@cox.net
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 11:18:11 GMT-3
Having your own rack is also helpful because you can practice on your rack even when you have only and hour or so available.
Every bit helps, and frequent short sessions help to make configuring Cisco equipment feel natural and everyday. No big deal.
Tom Larus
>
> From: "Joe Chang" <changjoe@earthlink.net>
> Date: 2003/01/15 Wed PM 08:03:58 EST
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Subject: Re: Found a New CCIE Lab Rental
>
> Having your own equipment and building your own lab is the best way to go if
> you have the cash, no argument about that.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rem" <rem@digdomsol.com>
> To: "Joe Chang" <changjoe@earthlink.net>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:31 PM
> Subject: RE: Found a New CCIE Lab Rental
>
>
> > Just my 2 cents worth, but one of the greatest things about having your
> own
> > rack at home, office, etc. is being able to put the technologies together
> in
> > your own versions and decipher what happens. Building my own lab also got
> me
> > familiar with some hardware that i had yet to put together in the field
> and
> > see what ios versions work with what routers and switches first hand.
> > Although you can rent rack time, which has its certain advantages you
> never
> > get to have that certain satisfaction from stringing 3 dce cables back to
> > back to get a "perfect match", its the best of american ingenuity when you
> > decide that you are not going to purchase anymore cables and find a
> > solution.
> >
> > Isn't that what the IE is all about? Overcoming obstacles, sorry I took so
> > long but I do love my rack!!! Sell it, hell no, you can bury me with it.
> BTW
> > it gets half my number if I ever make it.
> >
> > Ross Montejano, CCNP, CCDP, SCSA, MCSE, SCE
> > Network Engineer
> > Digital Domain Solutions, Inc.
> > rem@digdomsol.com
> > 909-245-9180
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> > Joe Chang
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:00 PM
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: Re: Found a New CCIE Lab Rental
> >
> >
> > Todd, that's true if two assumptions hold: that the secondary market for
> > Cisco gear still holds up by the time you get your CCIE and your personal
> > finances can do without the use of several thousand dollars until that
> time.
> >
> > p.s. the lab rental guys are paying me lots of money to say this =)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Todd Carswell" <acarswell@nc.rr.com>
> > To: "Edward W. Boggs" <eboggs@adelphia.net>
> > Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: Found a New CCIE Lab Rental
> >
> >
> > > I checked out this site. I really don't have a problem with renting
> > > rack time, but the home page starts off with a schpiel trying to
> > > convince the reader that it is much more economical to rent rack time
> > > than buy your own equipment (a self serving statement). They even go so
> > > far as to tell you that you could possibly spend up to $25,000 for lab
> > > equipment - a laughable statement, to say the least.
> > >
> > > In reality, it's much more economical to buy your own equipment because
> > > you'll get most, if not all, of your money back when you re-sell it.
> > >
> > > Unless these rack rental places are planning to give users refunds after
> > > they get their CCIE numbers, the math doesn't add up.
> > >
> > > My philosophy: Buy your own equipment and rent some rack time to do ATM
> > > and Voice. It's much cheaper.
> > >
> > > Todd
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Edward W. Boggs wrote:
> > >
> > > >Was looking through the search engines and found a new CCIE Lab Rental
> > with
> > > >3550 EMI's.. the url is www.aadesign.net
> > > >
> > > >Ed
> > > >.
> > > .
> > .
> .
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