INE offers rack rentals that support all of our self-paced and instructor-led CCIE product lines, including Routing & Switching, Data Center, Collaboration, Security, and Service Provider. In addition to 24-hour hardware support, INE rack rentals come with simplified scheduling and advanced management control and utilize the same hardware and software used in the actual CCIE lab exams.
All rack tokens you purchase are placed into your account, and you then draw from those tokens to rent time as-needed. The exact number of tokens needed will vary depending on your individual training goals, current experience level, and the type of rack you are renting. In general, our instructors advise planning for about 350 - 450 hours of total rack practice time for a CCIE certification; about 200 - 300 hours for a CCNP certification; and about 100 - 150 hours for a CCNA certification. The per-hour costs of our rack rentals are listed below:
CCIE Routing & Switching v5
(Tech Labs Topology) – 5 Tokens/Hour
(Full-Scale Lab Topology) – 8 Tokens/Hour
CCIE Data Center – 15 Tokens/Hour
CCIE Service Provider v4 – 8 Tokens/Hour
CCIE Collaboration – 8 Tokens/Hour
CCIE Security – 8 Tokens/Hour
CCNA/CCNP Routing & Switching – 3 Tokens/Hour
All of our rack rentals are scheduled in 30-minute sessions* using our exclusive token system (min. session length is 1 hour). This system is designed to give you the flexibility to schedule and reschedule your own sessions at your convenience. When consecutive sessions are scheduled on the same rack, you'll get uninterrupted access for the entire duration of the sessions for an even better value.
*Please note that our CCIE Data Center rack rentals are only rented in 6-hour time blocks at this time.
Our rack rentals serve as the perfect platform for practicing the labs and scenarios laid out in our popular CCIE Workbooks.
How many tokens do I need?
All rack tokens you purchase are placed into your account, and you then draw from those tokens to rent time as-needed. The exact number of tokens needed will vary depending on your individual training goals, current experience level, and the type of rack you are renting. In general, our instructors advise planning for about 350 - 450 hours of total rack practice time for a CCIE certification; about 200 - 300 hours for a CCNP certification; and about 100 - 150 hours for a CCNA certification.
The costs of our rack rentals are listed below, please note that the CCIE DC racks are rented in weekly installments:
CCIE Routing & Switching v5
(Tech Labs Topology) – 5 Tokens/Hour
(Full-Scale Lab Topology) – 8 Tokens/Hour
CCIE Service Provider v4 – 8 Tokens/Hour
CCIE Collaboration – 8 Tokens/Hour
CCIE Security – 8 Tokens/Hour
CCIE Data Center – 850 Tokens/Week (Weekly rentals only)
CCNA/CCNP Routing & Switching – 3 Tokens/Hour
How Does It Work?
All of our rack rentals are scheduled in 30-minute sessions* using our exclusive token system (min. session length is 1 hour). This system is designed to give you the flexibility to schedule and reschedule your own sessions at your convenience. When consecutive sessions are scheduled on the same rack, you'll get uninterrupted access for the entire duration of the sessions for an even better value.
To learn more, watch this step-by-step video on how to use our Rack Rentals.
*Please note that our CCIE Data Center rack rentals are only rented in 1 week time blocks at this time. Due to extremely high demand members must have 850 tokens in their account and have already purchased INE's Data Center Workbook prior to attempting to schedule INE's CCIE Data Center racks. To schedule a DC rack session, please contact our Rack Coordinator.
Simplified Scheduling
To schedule your CCIE rack rental sessions, log in to your Members account, click Rack Rentals, and select the track for which you want to book a session. Select all the sessions you want, and then click Schedule Labs. It’s that easy! Our advanced scheduling system will schedule all your consecutive sessions on the same rack if they are available. You are also provided with tools that let you cancel or reschedule your rack sessions without having to contact Customer Support.
Advanced Management Control
The enhanced Rack Control Panel helps you get the most out of your rack rental sessions—you won’t waste time reloading devices, saving configurations, loading configurations, or troubleshooting hardware problems. Our Rack Control Panel offers the following features:
- GUI Remote Power Control: Powercycle devices with a single mouse click.
- Configuration capturing, archiving, and loading – Automatically save your configs and resume later.
- Initial configuration loading – Automatically load initial configs for supported INE products.
CCIE Routing & Switching v5 Rack Rentals
INE’s CCIE Routing & Switching v5 rack rentals are based on the hardware specification publicly stated to be used in the actual CCIE Routing & Switching v5 Lab Exam. The topology consists of the following:
- For Advanced Technology and Foundation Labs (CCIE Routing & Switching v5 racks):
- Ten virtual routers running IOS version 15.4S
- Four physical Catalyst 3560 switches running Catalyst IOS version 15.0SE
- For Full-Scale Labs:
- Twenty virtual routers running IOS version 15.4S
- Four physical Catalyst 3560 switches running Catalyst IOS version 15.0SE
CCNA/CCNP Routing & Switching Rack Rentals
INE’s CCNA/CCNP rack rentals provide all the hardware and software you’ll need to accomplish your CCNA and CCNP lab practice. Whether using INE’s Workbooks, or devising your own labs, these racks have enough redundancy and variation to test virtually any technology you’ll encounter in the CCNA or CCNP exams. The physical topology of the racks is cabled to meet the specifications of all of our instructor-led and self-paced product lines, including, but not limited to, INE’s CCNA Workbook and CCNP SWITCH Workbook. All of our CCNA/CCNP Routing & Switching racks include the following equipment:
- Four routers running 15.3 Advanced Enterprise Services IOS
- One Catalyst 3560 series switch running 12.2 Advanced IP Services
- Two Catalyst 3550 series switch running 12.2 IP Services
- One preconfigured Access Server
- One preconfigured Frame Relay switch
- One preconfigured backbone router
CCIE Data Center Rack Rentals
INE’s Data Center rack rentals use the hardware platforms, software versions, and physical cabling of INE’s CCIE Data Center Technology Lab Workbook. All of our Data Center racks include the following equipment:
- Nexus 9300 ACI Spines
- Nexus 9300 ACI Leafs
- Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
- Nexus 7000s with F3 line cards
- Nexus 5600s
- Nexus 2300 & 2200 10GigE Fabric Extenders
- UCS C series rack servers
- UCS B series blade servers
- UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects
- Nexus 1000v virtual switch
- Dual 10GigE attached hosts for application testing
- Fibre Channel SAN
- iSCSI SAN
*Please note that our CCIE Data Center rack rentals are only rented in 1 week time blocks at this time. Due to extremely high demand members must have 850 tokens in their account and have already purchased INE's Data Center Workbook prior to attempting to schedule INE's CCIE Data Center racks.
CCIE Service Provider v4 Rack Rentals
INE’s CCIE Service Provider v4 rack rentals are based on the hardware specification publicly stated to be used in the actual CCIE Service Provider v4 Lab Exam. The topology consists of the following:
- Twenty virtual ASR 1000 routers running IOS-XE version 15.4S
- Four virtual ASR 9000 routers running IOS-XR version 5.2
CCIE Collaboration Rack Rentals
INE’s CCIE Collaboration rack rentals use the hardware and software version specification publicly stated to be used in the actual CCIE Collaboration Lab Exam. The physical topology of the racks are cabled to meet the specification of all of our CCIE Collaboration instructor-led and self-paced product lines. Our Collaboration hardware specification is built around Cisco’s published CCIE Collaboration hardware specification:
- Cluster1:
- VMs: 3x UCM, 1x IM&P, 1x CUC, 1x UCCX, 2x Jabber
- Rack Phones: 3 direct attached 7961s (remotely controlled w/ variphy)
- Remote Phones: 3 including 9971s at your physical study location via L2VPN
- Cluster2:
- VMs: 3x UCM, 1x IM&P, 1x CUC, 1x Jabber
- Rack Phones: 1 direct attached 7961 (remotely controlled w/ variphy)
- Remote Phones: 2 including 9971s at your physical study location via L2VPN
- IP/PSTN Cluster:
- VMs: 1x UCM, 1x IM&P, 1x VCS, 1x TMS, 1x Jabber/JabberVideo
- Rack Phones: 1 direct attached 7961 (remotely controlled w/ variphy)
- Remote Phones: 1 at your physical study location via L2VPN
- Shared between Clusters:
- Site Routers: 3x 2911 running IOS 15.2(4)M5 each with:
- 1x HWIC-2T for Frame Relay (sigh, yes Frame Relay)
- 1x VWIC3-1MFT-T1/E1 for ISDN PRI
- 1x PVDM3-128/256 for Transcoding/Audio/Video Conferencing
- 1x EHWIC-4ESG-P and PWR-2911-POE (branch sites only) for PoE switching
- 1x SM-SRE-710 (branch 2 site only)
- PSTN Router: 1x 2811 running IOS 15.1(4)M3 with:
- 1x HWIC-4T for Frame Relay
- 3x VWIC2-1MFT-T1/E1 for ISDN PRI
- 2x PVDM2-64 for TDM to VoIP
- HQ Site Switch: 1x 3560E-V2 running IOS 15.0(2)SE5
- Site Routers: 3x 2911 running IOS 15.2(4)M5 each with:
CCIE Security Rack Rentals
INE’s CCIE Security v5 rack rentals use the hardware specification publicly stated to be used in the actual CCIE Security v5 Lab Exam. The physical topology of the racks are cabled to meet the specification of all of our instructor-led and self-paced products.
Physical Devices
- (2) 2911 routers
- (2) 3750-24 switches
- (2) 3750x-24 switches
- (2) ASA 5515X
- (1) 2504 WLC
- (1) 1262 LWAP
- (1) 7900 series IP phone
Virtual Devices
In addition to physical Cisco hardware, Virtual machines and security appliances are used.
- Cisco ACS (Access Control Server)
- Cisco ASAv (Adaptive Security Appliances virtualized)
- Cisco CSR (Cloud Services Router)
- Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine)
- Cisco ESA (Email Security Appliance)
- Cisco FMCv (Firepower Management Center virtualized)
- Cisco FTDv (Firepower Threat Defense virtualized)
- Cisco NGIPSv (Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System virtualized - aka Cisco Firepower)
- Cisco WSA (Web Security Appliance)
- Test PC A (Windows 7 x86)
- Test Server A (Windows 2008 Server)
- Test PC B (Windows 7 x86)
- Test Server B (Windows 2008 Server)
- WiFi Test PC (Windows 7 x86)
Our staff is looking forward to assisting you!
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