Any type of knowledge is always worth the trouble. Is it worth the money?
Are you a Cisco shop? Have you committed to buying the equipment? You may not have to spend a dime on the class. If you are a Cisco shop or you have committed to buying a large number of APs ($400 per unit) and controllers ($30,000 per unit) there should not be any reason as to why Cisco does not provide the training for you at one of the training centers. We cashed that chip in the minute they gave us a chance. You also have to keep in mind that there are ALWAYS things that are not covered in the class that you will have to figure out on your own. If the class covered everything then these things would configure themselves and we would be out of a job. For instance I do not remember the instructor talking about how DHCP Option 43 allows you to pass the IP address of the controller to the AP inside the DHCP packet. They may have changed this in more recent courses. But I do not remember them talking about any of this. What I would suggest to you is for you to take the course, even if you have to pay for it so that you have a general idea of what you are working with. And if during your deployment you have any questions, there is enough experience in this forum for you to obtain enough opinions about your problems, where you can make an educated decision on a viable solution. And one good thing here is that you will get a response faster than Cisco TAC. :-) Thanks. Jorge On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:00 -0400, Lee Badman wrote: > Hello again to the group. > > Am contemplating whether the formal training on the Cisco/Airespace > stuff is "worth it" from the perspective of one just getting started > with it... I know the answer varies per individual, but has anyone sat > in the classroom for Airespace training? Was the content good enough > value to expend the time and money getting there versus figuring it out > as you go? Any specific horror stories about individual training firms > (answer offline if you want)? > > Thanks- > > Lee > > Lee H. Badman > Network Engineer > CWNA, CWSP > Information Technology and Services > Syracuse University > 315.443.3003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. -------------------- This electronic message is intended to be for the use only of the named recipient, and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error or are not the named recipient, please notify us immediately by contacting the sender at the electronic mail address noted above, and delete and destroy all copies of this message. Thank you. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
