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I'd strongly recommend working with at least 'tier three' type enterprise products. If you can get your hands on any Cisco or Aruba controllers and APs...that would be best for your career. But you can probably use the semi-enterprise stuff from Engenius or Ubiquiti stuff to get you the experience you need for the CWNA exam.

Anything from the 'tier two' enterprise vendors would be more than enough as well. (Ruckus, Aerohive, Trapeze, Meru, Motorola, HP, etc.)

Working on just SoHo type equipment won't be enough. Most only support WPA I/II with PSK - and you should have experience with Radius if at all possible.

From the 'old days' of Novell CNEs - those who had their own lab setups at home were always prized over the 'paper-CNE' types when it came time to getting hired.

Keith

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