[c-nsp] Catalyst 5513 questions - looking at buying one for labuse/tinkering

[Dan Martin]

Give a thought to the power requirements.  The "lucky" power supply
could have you on the phone with your electrician getting 20 amp service
wired into the room you keep the box in.


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To: Tristan Gulyas
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Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Catalyst 5513 questions - looking at buying one for
labuse/tinkering

Hello Tristan,

> Looking at purchasing a 5513 for my home lab as I think it'll be a  
> nice
> platform to play on and definitely comes in a lot cheaper than a  
> 6000/6500.
> The unit that is available to me has a few 5225R's and 5224s in it,  
> an RSM
> and a sup3+NFFC without an uplink module (and two PSUs).  I want it  
> for the
> RSM and the sup3 for my 5000 but he's offering it at a good price  
> and  is
> unwilling to ship individual modules (sigh). As such, I have a few
> questions:
>
> 1.  Is CatOS likely to vanish from the Cisco certification map in a  
> few
> years?  I understand that it won't run the latest and greatest but  
> I haven't
> got too much CatOS experience.

It has more or less disappeared from the courses and the exams already.
ICND, BCMSN etc are already contain IOS-based switches. CCIE as well.

hth
-birgit

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