Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: The 2503 Router

I know from experience that, in part, excitement and anxiety to put together their own CCNA / CCNP home laboratory is deciding what to buy! While you can make a house functional laboratory outside of almost any combination of Cisco routers and switches, routers, some are more appropriate to house lab work than others, because they can fill several roles.
When you buy or CCNA CCNP " " lab kits - bundles of Routers and switches - you can be a little confused about whether you are getting a good deal. A router I asked about a little bit is the 2503.
2503 routers are fantastic for CCNA CCNP home and laboratories. They come with two serial interfaces, which allows you to connect a direct interface to another router (you will need a DTE / DCE cable for it) while the other connection to a frame relay switch if you like. If you do not have a frame relay switch, you can connect a 2503 directly to two other routers via the serial interfaces.
You also has an AUI port, which requires a transceiver to operate as its Ethernet interface. Transceptores are very cheap and readily available from Cisco ebay sellers and dealers, choose a name for every 2503 you decide buy.
2503 routers also come with a BRI interface. Even though you may not have an ISDN simulator at the time, you may choose to add one later. 2503 which is a big bet for the future laboratory expansion.
All in all, 2503 routers are great for your CCNA / CCNP home lab. They run about $ 125 in each ebay or less, so they are also very cheap. There is no better training than in their own training CCNA CCNP home or laboratory, and you can always sell the equipment later if you wish. Basically, you are renting the routers and switches, and the experience you get to work with the real business is invaluable.
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