Building your own CCIE Voice Home Lab

Building a home lab is never easy or cheap as most of you already know. In order to prepare for ANY CCIE you must have access to a full rack.

I am one of those who cannot work on remote racks. So once I decided to go for CCIE Voice, I started looking for the equipment. One major issue was figuring out which vendor’s lab equipment list to follow since there are a few out there. I decided to go with IPexpert’s BLS and thus my home rack is similar to IPX Racks. Problem is that no one lists the details so you really have to dig in and ask others. Here is a list of the equipment I have and you can modify it as you need. This will allow me to work on IPX labs without changing anything.

Update:10/14/2009

I also purchased Internetwork Expert’s Voice Vol 1 and 2 and after looking at their topology it appears that my rack fits both IPX and IE So far IE Vol 1 looks better but I will keep you posted.

• HQ
  • Cisco WS-3750-24PS-E
  • Cisco 2821
  • VWIC2-2MFT-T1/E1
  • PVDM2-64
• HQ Phones
  • Cisco 7961
  • Cisco 7961
  • Cisco 7961
• BR1
  • Cisco 2811
  • PWR-2811-AC-IP
  • VWIC2-2MFT-T1/E1
  • PVDM2-64
  • HWIC-4ESW-POE
• BR1 Phones
  • Cisco 7961
  • Cisco 7961
• BR2
  • Cisco 2811
  • PWR-2811-AC-IP
  • VWIC2-1MFT-T1/E1
  • WIC-1DSU-T1-V2
  • PVDM2-64
  • HWIC-4ESW-POE
  • NM-CUE
• BR2 Phones
  • Cisco 7961
  • Cisco 7961
• PSTN/FR Router/Terminal Server
  • Cisco 3725
  • AIM-VOICE-30
  • VWIC2-2MFT-T1/E1
  • VWIC2-1MFT-T1/E1
  • VWIC2-2MFT-T1
  • WIC-1DSU-T1
  • NM-16A
  • PWR-2811-AC-IP
• PSTN Phone
  • Cisco 7961
• Server and Applications
  • Dell T100 Server Xeon 3.0 8GB RAM
  • VM for CUCM PUB
  • VM for CUCM SUB
  • VM for CUC
  • VM for UCCX
  • VM for CUPS
  • VM for Windows 2003 for AD intg