After working through a longish discussion about Cisco routers for your CCNA lab, it will be nice to discuss switches. Thankfully, the choice of switches is a lot easier to figure out than the choice ...
For example, 2500’s and 2600’s do not support MPLS, but 1841’s do – and MPLS is now on the BSCI exam (one of the 4 CCNP exams). It’s clear that buying 1841’s makes much more sense than buying 2600’s ...