Chris Howard PGCE PGDIP MCT MIET CEng

Senior Lecturer, Faculty  of Computing, Engineering and Technology
CISCO Network Academy Programme Coordinator (CCNA, CCNP, FNS, INS & FWL)

email: c.howard@staffs.ac.uk

tel. (01785) 353304

Dr. Justin Champion

Senior Lecturer, Faculty  of Computing, Engineering and Technology
CISCO Network Academy Programme Coordinator (CCNP - FNS - IPT)

email: J.J.Champion@staffs.ac.uk

tel. (01785) 353292

The CISCO Labs are purpose equipped laboratories housing self contained networks and networking equipment.

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Patch panels and structured cabling allow many configuration to be investigated.

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The computers used for the course are 40 Windows XP workstations that allow access to the course material and serve as hosts on the test networks.

Among other devices, the test network consists of:

• 17 CISCO 7900 IP phones
• 2 CISCO Wi-Fi enabled phones
• 8 CISCO Wireless AP1231G Access Points
• 6 CISCO Wireless BR1310G Bridges
• 4 Linksys Wireless Access Points
• 1 Cisco 2100 Series Wireless LAN controller
• 4 Cisco PIX/ASA hardware firewalls
• 12 Catalyst 2950 switches
• 6 Catalyst 2960 switches
• 8 Cisco 3560 Layer 3 Switches with Power over Ethernet
• 20 Cisco 2811 Integrated Services Routers
• 1 Cisco 2811 Integrated Services Router Telephone Enabled
• 5 Cisco 1841 Integrated Services Routers
• 11 Cisco 2600 Integrated Services Routers
• 6 Cisco 2501 Routers
• 2 Cisco Catalyst 4000
• 4 Adtran ATLAS 550 WAN Emulators