Fast Lane — practical learning as well as professional consulting with over 200 training and demo laboratories worldwide

The most modern laboratory infrastructure with high-end network technologies

7 October 2008 — The IT training and consulting enterprise Fast Lane presents its customers a comprehensive and complex laboratory environment equipped with the most up-to-date high-end network technologies from various manufacturers. For instance, the infrastructure encompasses the worldwide largest Cisco, NetAPP and IronPort laboratories. Not only training customers benefit from the laboratories, the labs can also be accessed in consulting projects from any location in the world. In this way the most modern technologies can be demonstrated, and they can be tested directly by customers. Moreover, companies are able to specifically qualify their employees in the high-end network sector on the basis of the laboratory infrastructure from Fast Lane.

The comprehensive laboratory infrastructure is a main item of the Fast Lane training and consultation offer. The high-end laboratories will be used for the classic course offers as well as for individual customer workshops. The most modern equipment is available in this connection. The Fast Lane laboratories make it possible to provide the latest network technologies customized for all conceivable practically-oriented purposes.

Some of the hosted laboratories in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Vienna and Dubai:

  • The Europe-wide only SAN lab with two Cisco MDS 9509 switches and twelve MDS 9216 switches
  • The Europe-wide only “MeetingPlace” lab with 8106/8112 audio servers and IPVC-3515-MCU12 video conferencing machines
  • The Europe-wide only “TelePresence” lab
  • High-end switching labs with more than 30 Cisco catalyst switches of the 6000 series
  • Laboratories which can image complete Cisco Data Center solutions
  • An optical lab with four ONS 15454E switches
  • Security laboratories with Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Firewalls (ASA), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), NAC and MARS
  • Quality of Service (QoS) laboratories
  • MPLS laboratories
  • Special service provider laboratories

Renting out laboratories
Fast Lane also offers its high-end laboratories for renting. In this case, the labs are available to customers wither on a weekly basis or also on a day-to-day basis with 24x7 service. .

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