The single biggest cost for gear for a CCNP lab will be the cost of a layer 3 switch – assuming you really need one. Of the four CCNP exams, only the BCMSN exam requires a lot of LAN switch features.

I'm looking into getting a managed switch to learn how to setup VLANs. Ultimately I want to setup separate VLANs to segregate devices in the future home. Right now I only have a handful of unmanaged ...

Nortel’s BayStack 5520 stackable switch offers better performance, increased link aggregation capacity, new Layer 3 forwarding and a 25% price drop compared with its predecessor. However, this line of ...