FOUR CISCO SWITCHES &

THREE CISCO ROUTERS PER STUDENT!

Why have we increased the size of our CCNA lab? From the very beginning of Commsupport we have always believed in offering the student more and started with the "One Student, One Lab" policy, no students on our CCNA courses should ever have to share kit with other students

Since summer 2007 we started running the labs with an extra router per student, the purpose of this was to allow the student to understand both sides of a routed network and how serial lines, routing protocols, authentication, Access control lists, NAT and frame Relay were configured. This is in contrast to other schools that only provide 1 router in each lab which means you only ever get to see half the network, with only half the picture you have less chance of understanding the configurations.

Having two routers proved to be a huge success with our students, they all finished the course with a greater understanding of how routed networks are built and are operated.

We then had a great idea, why not make the switched network bigger. Spanning tree, VTP and VLAN's always quite complex concepts to understand are now made easier due to the fact that we give each student four switches to work with so that during the labs and the dreaded break fix they really understand of the operation and functions of these complex subjects, the student works with 2 switches in their lab along with programming the 2 core switches makes 4 switches to contend with.

We have now added a further router to the CCNA Lab to take our CCNA Lab to the biggest and the most comprehensive in the country when it comes to real kit with real hands on experience. No other training company focuses on hands on practical work as Commsupport does

With a bigger lab you have the best chance of passing the CCNA exam and not only that you will understand networking which puts you in the best position when going for a networking job

On top of all of this we make our students work hard with the labs and with the break fix, we also give out homework that they have to complete with the software based network simulator that we provide

Why settle for less?