Lab(s) 5 A/B have now been released and should be in your ipexpert.com “Members Area”. Lab 5 deals with Configuration and Troubleshooting of Advanced Call Routing Policies. This lab is not for the faint of heart! This lab not only covers advanced topics like Local Route Groups and Calling/Called Party Transformation combined with Translation Patterns, but also dives deep into Device Mobility, Unified Mobility (Single Number Reach), and Mobile Voice Access.

Please be sure to read the “pre-requisite” section as we outline some rather important changes to phones – both type and MAC address if you are using the software VPN option – and following the prerequisites will ultimately determine your success or failure when it comes to both performing the lab as well as testing it later.

You will find the Workbook and detailed Proctor Guide (solutions guide) in your “My eBook” section, and the text-based configurations in your “My Configs” section. Along with the router/switch configs, you will also find an updated “All Volume 1 Labs – Tables” PDF with some new information. As well, along with those previous documents, you should find some .reg files to assist you in a much easier setup process if you happen to be using IP Blue for softphone SCCP clients for the changes mentioned above.

We have actually gone back and made a number of changes and some improvements to previous sections as well, and in fact all sections have been updated to some degree or another. So please be sure to download those previous sections as well. Also we have made changes and improvements to the PSTN Dial Plan for Volume 1 – so don’t forget to use the “Load Lab Configs” feature every time you sign onto Proctor Labs – so that you receive the latest PSTN config, as well as the CUCM Servers, etc. For those of you using your own labs at home – please update your PSTN-WAN router files with the latest you download from your ipexpert.com account. (BTW – for Volume 1, whenever we make a change to a PSTN-WAN file – we go back and retroactively make the change for all PSTN-WAN files – so choosing any file is perfectly fine – they should all be the same. Again – only for Volume 1 will this occur).

We have also upgraded few more of our Voice vRacks to the v3 BP standard. Out of our 24 full racks of equipment for CCIE Voice – we now have 16 running the current v2 BP – and 8 running the new v3 BP – plenty for both sets of folks preparing for either version of the lab exam. Our new v3 vRacks aren’t yet at capacity – so have confidence we will have a rack for you when you need one. As soon as they begin coming close to capacity, and as we grow closer to approaching the new lab exam – we will be converting more of them.

Speaking of which – many of you may have seen this – but if not – the official “Go-Live” date for the new CCIE Voice Lab Exam is July 16, 2009.

Lab 6 and 7 are going to be finishing up here shortly, and we are already getting underway with some Multi-Protocol (Mock) Labs – so stay tuned!

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As part of IPexpert’s Continuous Product Improvement, I would like to inform all of our R&S Blended Learning customers that we have just updated the Volume 1 Workbook, Proctor Guide, and configuration files. There were also some minor corrections to the Volume 3 Workbook, PG, and configuration files as well.

To access this new material, just log in to your IPexpert account and download the updated files.

Please be sure you are using the latest copies when working on your labs.

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