I would suggest asking your vendors for demo or evaluation equipment. Cisco, Juniper and 3Com have pools of demo equipment as do the resellers like PC Connection and CDW.
I've done deployments of new switching infrastructure based on work I've done with loaners from my vendors. It can be tough because the typical evaluation period is 30 days. Although you can get 45 and even 60 days.
If you have a good relationship with your sales rep. It would be easy to push them to get the necessary items to do basic testing and get the concepts down of how you need to deploy. Then get the config files so that when you do buy what you need you're 85% of the way there.
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I would suggest asking your vendors for demo or evaluation equipment. Cisco, Juniper and 3Com have pools of demo equipment as do the resellers like PC Connection and CDW.
I've done deployments of new switching infrastructure based on work I've done with loaners from my vendors. It can be tough because the typical evaluation period is 30 days. Although you can get 45 and even 60 days.
If you have a good relationship with your sales rep. It would be easy to push them to get the necessary items to do basic testing and get the concepts down of how you need to deploy. Then get the config files so that when you do buy what you need you're 85% of the way there.