OK don't get too excited, it's not for me, but I won a Cisco 2500 router for my network academy today.

I spent the day at the Cisco Academy forum and part of the day was a challenge lab for instructors and students. The top three students won a Linksys wireless router each for themselves whilst the top three instructors won a Cisco router for their academy. I wasn't the fastest, and to be honest thought I was pretty poor after failing to finish in the allotted 20 minutes, but I was actually the third fastest (getting the most done in the 20 minutes)!

Well I nearly fell out of my seat I can tell you.

So I now have to find a place for a the router in our lab rack and then buy some cables for it. Hmmm... now if I just had a budget.