From: Tony Schaffran (groupstudy@cconlinelabs.com)
Date: Mon Mar 19 2007 - 10:52:43 ART
Ananth,
Save yourself a lot of time and frustration gathering sub standard equipment
and dealing with ebay fraud.
Unless you just want to be intimately familiar with troubleshooting memory
and module hardware issues.
If it is the CCIE certification that is your end goal, do like Martin
suggested and invest your $10K in quality rack time. For that cost, you
could get well over 1 year of rack time every single day if you wanted to
spend that much.
Some people think that after you purchase the equipment yourself and pass
the lab, then you can resell the equipment to get your investment back, but
just how much do you think those 2600's and 3600's will be work in another
year or two?
Whatever you decide, good luck with your studies.
Cheers,
Tony Schaffran
Network Analyst
CCIE #11071
CCNP, CCNA, CCDA,
NNCDS, NNCSS, CNE, MCSE
www.cconlinelabs.com
Your #1 choice for online Cisco rack rentals.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Martin Kiefer
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 2:46 AM
To: ananth.sarma@gmail.com
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: LAb Equipment ...
Hi.
Well, I think the lab is overprized, the 3640 routers are old and you need
at least 3 more routers in your POD for backbone routers, and (as one
mentioned) one for frame-relay switch. The FR switch can easily be one of
the BB routers.
I would look on ebay for some 2600 XM routers. They can be found at a
reasonable price going from 500 USD and up to around a 1000 USD depends on
the amount of cards and memory.
Then of course you will need 4 switches in a combination of 3550 and 3560s.
The 3560s might be the biggest post on the budget, for some reason ebay.com
3560s costs a fortune compared to the ones in Europe.
Finally you need the terminal server, cables and maybe wic-cards but all of
those things can be found cheap on ebay.
You will probably end up paying a bit more for the lab than the 10K. But you
will have a better and more up to date lab and when you are done with it,
it's more easy to sell again so you won't lose that much money on it.
One last thing to have in mind, you can actually get a lot of rack time for
those 10K out there. Just look around and you won't have all the problems
with getting the gear.
Best regards
Martin Kiefer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> ananth.sarma@gmail.com
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:43 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: LAb Equipment ...
>
> Dear all,
>
> I recently attended a CCIE bootcamp of 1 month long in India which was
> nice.
> One good thing is that they allow us to practise on the pods during the
> nights indefinitely FOC!!
>
>
> I am planning to buy a POD to practice until my lab exam. ( 6 months
> from now!)
>
> Can you give me some good suggestions in selecting/buying the Routers
> and Switches?
>
> I found a good deal in E-bay costing $10k which includes around 6 x
> 3640, 2 x 3560, 2x 3550, 1 x 26xx Access Server along with cables and
> ports.
>
> Is it a worthwhile investment? I have heard about on-line labs but
> never tried them.
>
> Tough I enjoyed the bootcamp, needed to brush up on some areas and I
> was slow on the labs. I tend to slow down while focusing on the
> solutions mainly on Route-maps creation and Redistribution. Your
> valuable suggestions are welcome. How do I speed up on the lab?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ananth G Sarma
>
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