It took me almost 3 months, but together we made it through a good discussion of how to build a CCNP lab. After I finished the CCNA lab series before that, I posted a summary page with links to all the blog posts in the series. Likewise, here's a set of links to all the CCNP lab series posts. Enjoy!
Wendell
CCNP Lab Part 1 - Overview and Budget Survey
CCNP Lab Part 2 How Badly Do You Need an L3 Switch?
CCNP Lab Part 3 - Which L2 Switch?
CCNP Lab Part 4 - Where's the Beef in ONT?
CCNP Lab Part 5 - CCNP Wireless Config (Poll)
CCNP Lab Part 6 - ISCW Features and Feature sets
CCNP Lab Part 7 - Routers for ISCW
CCNP Lab Part 8 - Some Cheap Options for BSCI
CCNP Lab Part 9 - ISCW and MPLS
CCNP Wrap-up I: Picking Switches
CCNP Wrap-up II: Picking Routers
CCNP Wrap-up III: Build List for $800 Budget
Wendell Odom, CCIE No, 1624, has been a network guy for almost 30 years, working as a network engineer, SE, consultant, instructor, and author. He’s been writing and teaching about Cisco CCNA since its introduction in 1998, authoring all Cisco Press CCNA Exam Certification Guides. His primary job is to create Cisco certification content and tools. These cert tools include bestselling Cisco Press titles for CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE R/S; refer to this page for a complete list of titles. Wendell blogs here at Network World’s Cisco Subnet site, and keeps certification links and tools at his web site, www.certskills.com.
See a free preview chapter from Wendell’s CCNA ICND2 Exam Certification Guide), Chapter 17, “IP Version 6”.
Wendell Odom's Cisco Cert Zone blog is also featured on the Cisco Learning Network. See it there, along with the blogs of other Cisco Experts.
Again, check out all of Wendell Odom's books on CertSkills.com.