Materials for home lab CCVP

Hello all.
I need some advice on what books and hardware to set up a BASIC voice lab at home. I have a 2691 and one IPPhone but don't know the minimum devices/modules to practice two IPPhones VoIP calls in a lab and get proficient. I also can't find all Ciscopress books for each of the CCVP exams.
Any help and advice is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

CCVP require multiservice routers and other voice interface cards, Callmanager, CME, Gatekeepers and 3 IP phones
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/le2/le37/le65/learning_certification_type_home.html

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hi,
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Create them, as a network without internet first, then when you setup DHCP on your AD server, turn it off on your home router.
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Be sure to create a domain name that you own (e.g. Bobslab.com), if you create one that exists outside and it isn't yours, you'll have issues.
Get that setup and working and ask for more specific help as guiding you serves no purpose in learning
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Hi all,
I m considering building a home lab for studying CCVP, the lab would be based on the follow components :
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thanks for your help, I m looking forward to begin my voice lab

1. Yes, the NM-2V has built-in DSP resources for up to four calls (max voice port density with two 1st generation VICs). You cannot add further DSP chips to the NM-1V/2V, nor would you need to for what it does. You have one PSTN phone line, thus you can only make one call at a time. If you had a second line you could use the other FXO port for a second concurrent call.
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Dear All,
I would like to know and get advices from you guys how to setup home lab?
The configuration i have
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Hi Sir,
>>Please advice me i need to configure more servers in this HyperV Server and to learn
>>Please advice what servers i can configure to setup home lab
to learn and practice.
I agree with Tim .
Actually you can install any OS in the guest OS list to build what the lab you want :
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn792027.aspx
Best Regards,
Elton Ji
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Materials for learning Enhancements and modification

Plz suggest the best free online materials for learning Enhancements and modifications.
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