Earlier this week I finally completed my Cisco CCIP, a qualification that I have been persuing for the past 12months or so. I got acknowledgement from Cisco today 
One of my jobs this week is to pack away the 13U study lab that I have built over the past few years until I embark on CCIE next year. Before I dismantle it, I thought I might take a picture, give you guys an idea of what resources I’ve been using to pass, thought it might interest one or two of you;
Currently it is set up to model an MPLS\VPN service provider (2PEs, 1P), two overlapping VPNs made up of 5 enterprise sites each running a different PE-CE protocol (static, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF and BGPv4) which is redistributed into the MP-BGP core both ways. Internet access is provided to both VPNs using different techniques. There is a totally separate management network and even out-of-band access to all devices via the 32-port async module.
Lab consists of;
1X Cisco 2501
1X Cisco 2503
1X Cisco 2520
1X Cisco 2610
1X Cisco 2621
1X Cisco 2621XM
3X Cisco 3640
1X Cisco 2950
4X Cisco WIC-2T
3X Cisco WIC-1T
1X Cisco WIC-1B-S/T
1X Cisco NM-4E
1X Cisco NM-32A
1X Cisco NM-1E2W
2X Cisco NM-2FE2W
Cables, fiber, tranceivers etc. All routers are ‘fully-loaded’.
Much of this kit is End-of-Life now, but when new this lab would have had a retail value of circa 40K. Yoinks!
Skidd.
One of my jobs this week is to pack away the 13U study lab that I have built over the past few years until I embark on CCIE next year. Before I dismantle it, I thought I might take a picture, give you guys an idea of what resources I’ve been using to pass, thought it might interest one or two of you;
Currently it is set up to model an MPLS\VPN service provider (2PEs, 1P), two overlapping VPNs made up of 5 enterprise sites each running a different PE-CE protocol (static, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF and BGPv4) which is redistributed into the MP-BGP core both ways. Internet access is provided to both VPNs using different techniques. There is a totally separate management network and even out-of-band access to all devices via the 32-port async module.
Lab consists of;
1X Cisco 2501
1X Cisco 2503
1X Cisco 2520
1X Cisco 2610
1X Cisco 2621
1X Cisco 2621XM
3X Cisco 3640
1X Cisco 2950
4X Cisco WIC-2T
3X Cisco WIC-1T
1X Cisco WIC-1B-S/T
1X Cisco NM-4E
1X Cisco NM-32A
1X Cisco NM-1E2W
2X Cisco NM-2FE2W
Cables, fiber, tranceivers etc. All routers are ‘fully-loaded’.
Much of this kit is End-of-Life now, but when new this lab would have had a retail value of circa 40K. Yoinks!
Skidd.
so whatever gets me there most easily...