When building a lab to use to practice for CCNA or CCNP, you need Cisco switches. Part of the decision must be how many switches you can afford. And of course you’ll want to know whether adding that ...

When it comes to CCNP prep, what do you really need in your lab? I’m not talking about what would be nice to have, or handy, or useful once in a while. But what’s enough to practice everything, or at ...

Without getting too convoluted, we had a major issue with the 2 networks being tied together a few weeks back and asked an engineer to help us formulate a design for us that would separate the 2 ...

A network device that forwards traffic based on layer 3 information at very high speeds. Traditionally, routers, which inspect layer 3, were considerably slower than layer 2 switches. In order to ...

1) 2901 can support a max of 2 HWIC-D-9ESW 2) 2901 can support a max of 1 HWIC-1GE-SFP 3) mex bus interface speed on HWIC is 400 Mbps (I dont mind over-subscription) 4) Up to 1.6 Gbps aggregate toward ...