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Agenda • Cisco Packet Tracer Overview • Packet Tracker Key Features • Packet Tracer 6.0.1 • Packet Tracer Key Benefits • Summary
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Packet Tracer Overview
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What is Cisco Packet Tracer? • Comprehensive networking technology teaching and learning
software developed by Cisco Networking Academy
• Offers a unique combination of realistic simulation and
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Packet Tracer Simulation-Based Learning • Innovative features help students and
teachers collaborate, solve problems, and learn concepts in an engaging and dynamic social environment • Supports lectures, group and individual
labs, homework, exams, games, collaborations and competitions • Allows instructors to easily teach and
demonstrate complex technical concepts and networking systems design • Helps students develop important 21st
century skills
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Benefits of Simulation-Based Learning • Students who explore and experiment using Packet Tracer develop
intellectual curiosity and critical thinking skills. • Packet Tracer’s visually rich simulation environment facilitates
comprehension of complex technology concepts. • Students who troubleshoot networks using Packet Tracer develop
problem solving skills. • Students who design and build virtual networks using Packet Tracer
improve their innovation and creativity skills. • Students who explore concepts at their own pace in Packet Tracer’s
safe, virtual environment gain confidence in their decision making skills and abilities. • Using Packet Tracer for team collaboration and competition activities © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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Packet Tracer Key Features
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Simulation, Visualization, Collaboration Simulate IOS Commands Visualize Network Traffic
Collaborate on Multiuser Activities
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Supports Homework, Pre-Lab Prep, and Assessment
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Packet Tracer Activity Wizard • Anyone can author, the PT Activity Wizard guides you • The process is basically write instructions, build a correct answer
network, specify grading, specify an initial network, save • Ability to create your own learning activities, tasks, labs, games and complex assessments • Build scaffolded learning
experiences, formative and summative assessments
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Activity Wizard for Editing PT Activities
Instructors can localize, edit, or enhance existing activities using the Activity Wizard © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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Packet Tracer Multiuser Functionality • PT is a network-capable (peer to peer) application, using the
real network (TCP socket connections) to carry the Packet Tracer virtual packets • The PT application running on one computer can communicate
with the PT application running on 1 or more other computers • This connectivity between multiple instances of PT supports
teamwork, classroom games, collaboration, competition, remote instructor-student interaction, and social networking • Packet Tracer traffic is isolated to prevent any access to
external equipment keeping your school network secure.
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Example Multiuser Scenarios s, m a e t 2 u ct o r r t s n i 1
3 Packet Tracer instances interacting via Packet Tracer Messaging Protocol (PTMP)
r en t e f f i d 3 c l a s s es
Real TCP Socket Connection
PC 1
Real TCP Socket Connection
Real TCP Socket Connection
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Multiuser Games for Social Learning
Instructor console view of multiuser “Relay Race” game
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Instructor console view of multiuser “King of the Hill” game
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Packet Tracer Features • Logical and Physical
Workspaces • Real-Time and Simulation
Modes • User friendly Command
Line Interface (CLI)
• Activity Wizard, Lab
grading • Multiuser functionality • Multiple platform support • Multiple language support • Integrated Help and
Tutorials • Global event list (packet
sniffer) • LAN, switching, TCP/IP,
routing, and WAN protocols
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Key E-Learning Component • Learning theories stress early hands-on experiences • Key components of Networking Academy e-learning strategy
include In-person, hands-on labs with real equipment Online curriculum and assessment Cisco Packet Tracer Instructor Collaboration Tools
• Learning cycles alternating both Packet Tracer activities and
in-person, hands-on lab experiences with real equipment are a best practice for teaching CCNA-level networking to beginners
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Supports Networking Academy Curricula • Supports the majority of protocols and technologies taught in CCNA
Routing and Switching, CCNA Discovery, CCNA Exploration, and CCNA Security, and can also be used to teach concepts from IT Essentials and CCNP courses
Students Launch Packet Tracer Directly From CCNA Curricula to Access Activities That Reinforce the Curriculum © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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Packet Tracer 6.0.1
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Packet Tracer 6.0.1 Highlights - Models new devices and IOS licensing
• IOS 15
• IPv6 - IPv6 desktop config. IPv6
Tunnel over IPv4, CBACv6 • HSRP - Hot Standby Routing
Protocol • Graded Circling Tool - Model the
key classroom interaction of “circling” aspects of networks • Isomorphs - Isomorphs with
varying IP addresses, device names, & topology orientations
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Packet Tracer 6.0.1 Features (1 of 3) New Features
Description
Benefits
IPv6 desktop configuration IPv6 Tunnel over IPv4 Context-Based Access Control (CBAC)
Up-to-date practice, feedback, assessment, and gaming for ALL learners as the world moves to the IPv6 vision of an “internet of Things”
Support Cisco ISR 1941, 2901, 2911 and IOS 15
New Cisco devices New IOS licensing mechanism
Enhance opportunities to practice on new Cisco products and new IOS licensing mechanism
HSRP (Hot Standby Routing Protocol)
High availability gateways and load balancing
Enhance opportunities to practice with redundancy
Enhanced modeling of hands-on lab environments
PC firewall + terminal server + async octal cable + server with 2 NICs + ACL Sequence number
Enable increased comparison and contrast of the simulated Packet Tracer environment to the hands-on lab environments
IPv6 Enhancements
Enhance “learning by modeling”
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Packet Tracer 6.0.1 Features (2 of 3) New Features
Description
Benefits
Next Generation Performance Exams
Isomorphs with varying IP addresses, device names and topology orientations
Address exam security by creating tasks at the same level-of-difficulty with vary “surface” features
Problem injection & event feedback
Enables a wide variety of practice, feedback, intelligent tutoring, and gamelike experiences
Variable Manager
Graded Circling Tool
Ability to annotate the topology and have them graded as the authors specify
Model the key classroom interaction of “circling” aspects of networks like collision and broadcast domains, IP subnets, VLANs, OSPF areas, etc.
Save as Common Cartridge
PT file operations now support metadata (web page info, tags)
Enable LTI/CC interoperability in future technology phases
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Packet Tracer 6.0.1 Features (3 of 3) New Features
Description
Benefits
Under the Hood Code Improvements
Increased use of Coverity Code Analysis
More efficiently running code for users
More of model exposed via API Script Module Enhancements
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Improved bug identification More powerful PT Ecosystem products that use the API and Script Module features
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IPv6 Enhancements
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Support Cisco ISR 1941, 2901, 2911 and IOS 15
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Graded Circling Tool
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LAN Multiuser Agent
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Other Features
Server with 2 NICs
Host Based Firewalls
HSRP
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Packet Tracer Key Benefits
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Packet Tracer Benefits  Makes teaching easier by providing a multiuser environment for instructors (and free to NetAcad students) to easily teach complex technical concepts
 Makes learning easier by providing a realistic simulation and visualization environment for exploration, experimentation and explanation
 Instructors and students can create their own virtual “network worlds” for teaching and learning networking concepts and technologies
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Key Instructor Benefits • Ability to teach complex networking concepts Demonstrate technologies and configurations Author custom guided activities, labs and assessments with immediate feedback using the Activity Wizard Use for lecture demonstration, individual and group labs, homework, assessments, games, network design, troubleshooting and modeling tasks, reinforcement of hands-on lab activities, case studies, competitions
• Supplements classroom equipment and
provides complementary learning opportunities that are not possible in the classroom alone • Supports social learning processes via
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Benefits for Students • Provides a free practice and visualization
environment for the design, configuration and troubleshooting of network environments Observe virtual packets in controlled time as they travel through your network
• Allows practice outside of the physical
classroom and lab (home computers, mobile laptops) Create and configure much larger topologies than possible with physical equipment available
• Provides a rich learning environment
beyond standard networking technology instructional practices © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Provides valuable hands-on expertise to help you
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Summary
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Packet Tracer Key Take Aways Packet Tracer is a powerful network simulation program that allows students to experiment with network behavior and ask “what if” questions Makes teaching and learning network technologies easier Not intended to replace experiences with real equipment, but rather to complement them A laboratory for teaching and learning; you can experiment, you can create your own virtual network “world” Helps students develop 21st century skills such as decision making, creative and critical thinking, and problem solving Packet Tracer is an integral part of the Networking Academy comprehensive learning experience © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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Packet Tracer Availability • Packet Tracer is available free to all Networking Academy
instructors, students and alumni • To download Packet Tracer, log in to Cisco NetSpace, click
Offerings >Packet Tracer, then select your download package
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For More Information The following Packet Tracer resources are available on Cisco NetSpace > Offerings > Packet Tracer • FAQs • At A Glance • Overview Presentation • Packet Tracer 6.0.X Errata List • Packet Tracer 6.0.1 Executables
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Packet Tracer Discussion Forum • Access the global instructor community for questions,
discussions, collaboration, and activity sharing
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A Cisco router simulator that can be utilized in training and education, but also in research for simple computer network simulations. The tool is created by Cisco Systems and provided for free distribution to faculty, students, and alumni who are or have participated in the Cisco Networking Academy. The purpose of Packet Tracer is to offer students and teachers a tool to learn the principles of networking as well as develop Cisco technology specific skills.
Cisco Packet Tracer is a network simulation program that allows students to experiment with network behavior. Packet Tracer provides simulation, visualization, authoring, assessment, and collaboration capabilities and facilitates the teaching and learning of complex technology concepts.
Packet Tracer supplements physical equipment in the classroom by allowing students to create a network with many devices, encouraging practice, discovery, and troubleshooting. The simulation-based learning environment helps students develop skills such as decision making, creative and critical thinking, and problem solving. Packet Tracer complements the Networking Academy curricula, allowing instructors to teach and demonstrate complex technical concepts and networking systems design.
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