Why the 3 routers and 4 Switches per student on the CCNA course?
After much, much pain, research and long, long hours of testing with various lab setups for the CCNA class going through all of the possible permutations using 1 router 2 switches, 2 routers 1 Switch etc, we settled on 3 routers and 4 Switches per student lab. We found during testing with our students on live courses that this is the right balance of equipment, less kit and the student learns little, more kit than 3 routers and 4 switches and the student gets bogged down with the array of kit. More kit than 3 Routers and 4 Switches per student is like like asking a learner driver to lap the Nürburgring in a Micra in less than 7 minutes.
