RE: Voice pod

You are right 7965 are available all over ebay for the range $300-500$, I
just checked there.

With 3750, it's make little difference with 3560 in terms of what you would
need it for in Voice lab preparation, which is mainly VLANs propagation,
voice ports configuration, PoE is optional, QoS on voice ports or trunks and
for most of it - that's all you need on that switch. Assuming you terminate
your HQ phones there, that's about 3-4-5 ports you would need from that
device.

Also, VMWare, I own a license to run VMWare workstation on Linux server that
has 8 cores, quite enough to run a few things, and again - you don't need
both pub and sub there all the time, just to verify some redundant things
like registrations and then turn it down. Same about Unity, Presence and
CUCCX. So, at max three VMs to run simultaneously. With 2GB per VM a host
with 8 gigs of RAM and a quad core CPU will be good enough to host the
infrastructure. It's also more dbreplication error prone.

The dark part of it all is licenses for CUBE, Gatekeeper and CUE (both CME
and CCM modes). This would be an area of research on how to obtain trial
licenses for these features. But again, for all these things, it might be
more cose effective to buy time on racks outside, and concentrate on
dialplan and all the core features that your own equipment allows you to do.

And the most important part - Good luck in preparation, it's not the low
hanging fruit in the variety of CCIE lab exams.

Adel Abouchaev, CCIE# 12037, CISSP, MCSE

Technical Support Engineer

Netmasterclass LLC, Cisco Learning Partner

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From: Elliott Reyes [mailto:fontananetworkengineer_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:47 PM
To: Paul Dardinski
Cc: Adel Abouchaev; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Voice pod

Why not use soft phones ?

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Paul Dardinski <pauld_at_marshallcomm.com>
wrote:

If you can find 7965 for $100 per, I'll buy a few :) Need to add a 3750 to
the mix as well.

Also, you forgot about the platform to run all the vm'd servers on, need to
add that as it isn't trivial.

Paul (RS/Sec #16842)

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com on behalf of Adel Abouchaev
Sent: Wed 9/29/2010 5:58 PM
To: 'Cisco certification'
Subject: Voice pod

Good afternoon, folks of the networking Universe.

       Ever wondered how much would a Voice CCIE pod cost to have one at
home? After receiving a usual spam from our usual correspondents in sales, I
thought - lets calculate what the price would be, and it is quite a sum,
even if all the software is trial. Check below, just for your amusement.

Cheers,

Adel Abouchaev, CCIE# 12037, CISSP, MCSE

Technical Support Engineer
Netmasterclass LLC, Cisco Learning Partner
RFC821: adel_at_netmasterclass.net
E.164: +18886772669
HTTP: www.netmasterclass.net

------------ below ---------------

HQ Site
2811 - VWIC-2MFT-T1, PVDM2-32
       $809 2811
       $426 VWIC-2MFT-T1
       $235 PVDM2-32

$1385 for Catalyst 3560-24PS-E
$0 Trial CCM pub/sub
$0 Trial UC
$0 Trial CUCCX
$0 Trial Presence
$300 3 x Cisco 7965

BR1 Site
2811 - VWIC-2MFT-T1, HWIC-4ESW, PVDM2-32
       $809 2811
       $426 VWIC-2MFT-T1
       $300 HWIC-4ESW
       $235 PVDM2-32
$200 2 x Cisco 7965

BR2 Site
2811 - VWIC-2MFT-E1, PVDM2-32, CUE
       $809 2811
       $490 VWIC-2MFT-E1
       $300 HWIC-4ESW
       $235 PVDM2-32
       $810 CUE, 1GB flash / 256 MB RAM

$200 2 x Cisco 7965

PSTN
3725 - Two VWIC-2MFT-T1s ,One VWIC-2MFT-E1, PVDM-12
       $375 3725 (128/256)
$852 2xVWIC-2MFT-T1
       $490 VWIC-2MFT-E1
       $173 PVDM-256K-12
       $20 Cisco 7960

In total:
       Hardware
               $6964
       Phones
$620 (6x 7965, 1x7960)
Or
$300 (2x 7965, 5x7960)
       CUE: $810

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Received on Thu Sep 30 2010 - 21:34:33 ART