The "dot com" yuppy depression knocked down the stock prices and any and all
lab hopes along with it here.
But, generally speaking, if you work in a
production/development/manufacturing environment (i.e. some place where they
actually *make* things), you might want to send them an "e-learning white
paper" that speaks of "IT Darwinism" and why "companies with under-trained
(IT emphasis) staff will forfeit their market share to those companies with
staffs that have up-to-the-minute training." You might actually scare them
into beefing up their training/test lab budget, especially if you can
supplement that with an article depicting a disaster scenario of a company
who does not have a lab setup to train and test. (I actually managed to get
a small company to spend money on a grand training scheme, because their
staff did not know didly at the time, really.) If you work in a service
oriented organization like a insurance company or law-firm, you might have a
harder time convincing them of any test labs.
You can make a trade-off by accepting either a re-imbursment deal (in
writing!, always) where you first shell out at least a portion of the
"startup" version of a lab, prove to them the usefulness of the deal, and
then proceed with the purchase of a "full-fledged" lab, however that is
defined within the given context. That, I a developer of ours was able to
pull off on a Vocaltec VOIP telecom project; pretty expensive lab including
2 AS5300's, an MGX 8230, VCO/4k etc. He set up a mini/partial lab at home
and proved the practicality of having one; and then expanded upon that.
These are just smaple strategies I have run across.
Hope I have helped.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:55 PM
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Subject: Router lab [7:10157]
Hey Gang - Anyone have any good stories or ideas on how to talk your boss
into getting a router lab setup ? His theory so far is that they "could not
afford me" if I were to get my CCIE.
Thanks,
Duncan
Duncan Wallace
Sr. Network Engineer
CCNA CCNP
800.COM Inc.
1516 NW Thurman St
Portland, OR 97209-2517
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