| A CCNA or CCNP candidate who wants to be | | | | any set of Cisco routers and put together a |
| totally prepared for their exams is going to put | | | | home lab; part of the learning process is taking |
| together a home lab to practice on. With used | | | | what equipment you have available and putting |
| Cisco routers and switches more affordable and | | | | together your own lab! For those of you |
| plentiful then ever before, there's really no excuse | | | | preparing to start your home lab or add to your |
| to not have one! | | | | existing one, this article will list the routers I use in |
| With the many different models available, there is | | | | my Cisco pods. You certainly don't have to have |
| some understandable confusion among future | | | | all this equipment, but this will give you some good |
| CCNAs and CCNPs about which routers to buy | | | | ideas on how to get started. |
| and which ones to avoid. You can take almost | | | | |