From: Deepesh Chouhan (deepesh@cisco.com)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 17:13:54 GMT-3
Hey folks
Cleared my SP lab yesterday (April 29th) in RTP on my first attempt.
My reading list includes
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0 CCO and UniverCD
1 Jeff Doyle - I and II
2 MPLS and VPN Architectures, CCIPT Edition
By Ivan Pepelnjak and Jim Guichard
3 Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation By Vivek Alwayn
4 IP Quality of Service By Srinivas Vegesna
Coming from R&S, should I do SP
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I was stuck with this question myself. Hopefully my experience might
help some of you to make a decision.
(Disclaimer : this is my personal opinion. Not a general, official or
majority opinion)
SP lab needs tons of hands on experience with MPLS, MBGP, SP-QoS,
SP-Multicast etc.
You wont need it normally in an enterprise enviornment. This makes it
difficult to pick up those topics and master them. Also number of
routers to practice scenarios (e.g. Inter-AS, Carrier's Carrier) etc is
a lot. Some of the features are only available on certain platforms and
images. Needs lots of practice times too. Hence overall difficulty level
is more than R&S.
So bottomline - go through the trouble and sacrifice if you really need
it (job requirement or career aspirations or any other reason).
Otherwise R&S is just fine :)
Thanks
Deepesh
CCIE # 12046 - R&S, Security, Service Provider
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