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Ccie Voice Lab Blueprint, Please read

By admin - Last updated: Monday, January 4, 2010

Ccie Voice Lab Blueprint, Please read
Basic Campus Design DHCP, TFTP Catalyst voice and data VLAN configuration Catalyst VTP configuration
Call Manager and Call Manager Express Configuration Phone registration Phone configuration
Voi...

IP Manager Assistant Proxy Mode Explained

By admin - Last updated: Sunday, March 15, 2009

IPMA is yet another well-known CCM application that you may encounter on your CCIE Voice lab exam. While IPMA Proxy mode is clearly a legacy approach to configure this application its still a topic you could see in the lab. Before we discuss the conf...

CCIE Voice Lab Software Versions

By admin - Last updated: Sunday, March 15, 2009

Current as of Jan 2008.
IOS 12.4(5b)
CME 3.3
CUE 2.1.3
CRS (IPCC Express) 4.0.1
CallManager 4.1(3)sr3b
Unity 4.0(5)
Catalyst OS 7.6 (6500)
IOS 12.1 (3550)

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Voice Lab Strategy

By admin - Last updated: Saturday, March 14, 2009

Introduction
The CCIE Voice lab is unique in the sense that it requires you to configure diverse number of applications sharing little in common with each other. For example, you will have to use GUI to configure Call Manager and CLI to configur...

Using RTP Loopback for VoIP/PSTN Call Testing

By admin - Last updated: Saturday, March 14, 2009

A voice lab rack usually utilizes dedicated piece of hardware to simulate PSTN switch. Commonly, you can find a Cisco router in this role, with a number of E1/T1 cards set to emulate ISDN network side. It perfectly suits the function, switching ISDN c...

Mid-July 2009 Voice Lab Changes

By admin - Last updated: Friday, March 13, 2009

Below is the new CCIE Voice Lab Blueprint (version 3) that will be implemented mid-July 2009.
CCIE Voice Lab 3.0 Equipment and Software Versions
Passing the CCIE Voice Lab Exam requires a depth of understanding difficult to obtain without ...

Gatekeeper Call-Routing at a Glance

By admin - Last updated: Friday, March 13, 2009

People constantly have troubles understanding the GK-based call routing. In this post, we are not going to get deep into the gatekeeper functionality, but rather discuss the basic call-routing logic. Reader is assumed to know the basic gatekeeper conf...

Configuring a PSTN dialplan

By admin - Last updated: Friday, March 13, 2009

In this post we are going to describe a sample dialplan that could be used with PSTN simulator in your voice lab. Let`s start by looking at the following diagram to get basic understanding of the lab topology. In the diagram YY stands for two-digit ra...

Graded Labs Rack Rental Updates

By admin - Last updated: Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Recently as most rack rental customers are aware of it’s not easy to find an available rack or mock lab session.? Our security rack rentals are running near 100% capacity, the SP racks are also near 100% capacity, voice is already near 75% capac...