vendors in the chicago area

Hi guys,
           I passed my CCIE R&S written exam about 6 months ago, but its about
now that I have the time to start focusing on my lab training.
I have 10 years of hands-on experience and most of the cisco and juniper
professional level certifications, but I feel no near prepared for the lab
exam, I lack hands on experience on key topics such as BGP, MPLS and frame
relay.

     Anyway, I started by reviewing all the theory again, and I feel like
starting with hands-on training now, I have no idea in terms of which lab
workbooks should I get and which vendors are out there, I certainly dont know
if I can afford a bootcamp, but if I do, it wouldnt be now but on a closer
date to my exam date, which I dont expect to be at list until september.
ANyways, I live at chicago and was wondering if anyone knows about good
vendors on this area, and also about the workbooks and rack rental time.

Im asking here cause you guys know what ur talking about and when I googled
for this info I got flooded by an insane ammount of info.

any recommendations will be highly appreciated!!

thank you all!

Fed.
Received on Sun Mar 14 2010 - 07:55:33 ART