Sat, 28 February 2009
At the National Science Foundation sponsored Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) combined (The Mid Pacific Center for ICT and The National Center for ICT )
winter conference last month held at the City College of San Francisco,
I had the opportunity to interview three key members of the Cisco
Systems Packet Tracer Team - Dennis Frezzo, Isaac Majerowicz and Mark
Chen.
Packet Tracer is a network simulator used by hundreds of thousands of Cisco Networking Academy students around the world. Recently, Packet Tracer version 5.1 was released - here's so info from an FAQ on the product found on the Packet Tracer website: Packet
Tracer (PT) 5.1 is a comprehensive, networking technology teaching and
learning program that offers a unique combination of realistic
simulation and visualization experiences, assessment and activity
authoring capabilities, and opportunities for multiuser collaboration
and competition. Innovative features of the PT 5.1 software will help
students and teachers collaborate, solve problems, and learn concepts
in an engaging and dynamic social environment. Some of the benefits of
Packet Tracer 5.1 are as follows:
I'm really excited about version 5.1 - especially when you consider the user base. The ability to integrate Packet Tracer 5.1 with external applications will provide some innovative academic and training solutions. You can find out more about the Cisco Network Academy and Packet Tracer here. |