Personally i would go Comptia (Network+) -> CCNA then depending on your confidence after that either CCNP or straight to an Ethical Hacking / Penetration Testing course. From there it a case of learning the specific platform syntax i.e Juniper / Cisco / Palo Alto etc. I would also suggest becoming familiar with WireShark or similar products, i think there might even be an certified course for that, but i not certain.
Okay superb :) I was thinking comptia then ccna maybe security+ I wanted to learn ceh via offensive security so thanks :) also Benjamin although I know he does a lot of networking I believe his main area is Linux I could be wrong but yeah he could provide even more info on the matter :) and thanks for the link!