Five years later, I realized that I'd outgrown that setup, and needed to expand things. I didn't want to spend too much at ...

After working through a longish discussion about Cisco routers for your CCNA lab, it will be nice to discuss switches. Thankfully, the choice of switches is a lot easier to figure out than the choice ...

It’s time to wrap up (hoorah!) this spring’s foray into the question of what to put in your CCNA lab. I hope that you’ve found the series useful. Today, I’ll touch on a few final points with switches, ...

You don't build a home lab for gaming or lightweight workloads. Most home labs are geared toward specialized use cases, such ...

The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. We called this ...

The Networking Lab in the iSchool provides students with an opportunity to design, build, debug and manage small to complex computer networks. Each of the 16 benches includes a network rack with three ...