dtlokee wrote: Official courseware + classes (required as an instructor), the doc CD and lots of hours on a rack with NM-HDV's MFT-T1 FXO+FXS interfaces, (2) CCM 4.x, CME, 6503 xome MC3810's 7960 phones and numerous analog phones and few fax machines. I woulf ecommend the official training, and use of the doc CD. Took about 2 months total.
damsel_in_tha_net wrote: anything for a hova fan! tons of random sources over the course of several months: eLearning SRND & other docs from the Cisco web site Cisco Press series--many taken from the CCIE Voice reading list face time with a little equipment everything helped in its own way. the reading gave me a foundation, the elearning helped clear up cloudy concepts from the reading, and the practice helped tie everything together.