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Packet Tracer 5.0 Overview

July 14, 2008

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Agenda Packet Tracer Overview PT 5.0 Key Features and

What’s NewExpanded Platform SupportEnhanced Protocol SupportMultiuser Functionality

PT 5.0 Key Benefits Summary

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Packet Tracer Overview

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What is Packet Tracer 5.0? Comprehensive networking technology teaching and

learning software with powerful simulation, visualization, authoring, assessment, and collaboration capabilities

Offers a unique combination of realistic simulation and visualization experiences, complex assessment and activity authoring capabilities, and opportunities for multiuser collaboration and competition

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Simulation, Visualization, Collaboration

collaborate on multiuser activities

simulate IOS commands

visualize network traffic

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Supports Homework and Pre-Lab Prep

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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 Activity Wizard

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Packet Tracer: 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 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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Integrated into CCNA Curricula

Students launch PT directly from CCNA Discovery and CCNA Exploration to access activities that reinforce the curriculum

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PT 5.0Key Features

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Packet Tracer Features  Logical and Physical Workspaces Real-Time and Simulation Modes User friendly CLI Global event list (packet sniffer) LAN, switching, TCP/IP, routing, and WAN protocols Activity Wizard, Lab grading Multiple platform support Multiple language support Integrated Help and Tutorials

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• Simulation and visualization of commonly used CCNA-level protocols

• Activity Wizard allows field authoring and localization of activities

• Win 2K, XP platforms• Used in lectures, labs,

homework, assessments• Free for all students and

instructors

PT 4.11 PT 5.0

Existing features plus:• Additional Protocol Support

(e.g., IPv6) • Additional Platform Support

(Linux, Vista)• Multiuser Capability

Moving to PT 5.0 – What’s New

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New Features in Packet Tracer 5.0 Expanded platform support

Windows (Widows XP, Windows 2000)Vista (Vista Basic, Vista Premium)Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora)

• Enhanced protocol support Expanded list of protocols to reflect current networking trends and practices in industry and government

More support for teaching CCNA-level commands Deeper modeling for existing protocols

Multiuser functionalityEnables social learning instead of students working alonePT 5.0 is now a network-capable (peer to peer) applicationSupports collaboration, competition, remote instructor-student interaction, social networking, gaming

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Packet Tracer 5.0 Protocol Support

HTTP, TFTP, Telnet, SSH, DNS, DHCP TCP and UDP IPv4, ICMP, ARP, IPv6, ICMPv6 RIPv1/v2/ng, Multi-Area OSPF, EIGRP, Static

Routing, Route Redistribution, Multilayer Switching

Ethernet (802.3), HDLC, Frame Relay, PPP STP, RSTP, VTP, DTP, CDP, 802.1q, PAgP 802.11

*New in PT 5.0

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Packet Tracer 5.0 Multiuser Functionality PT 5.0 is now 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

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Real TCP Socket

Connection

Real TCP Socket

Connection

Real TCP Socket

Connection

2 teams, 1 instructor 3 different

classes

3 students from home

PC 1 PC 2

PC 3

Example Multiuser Scenarios3 Packet Tracer instances interacting

via Packet Tracer Messaging Protocol (PTMP)

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Multiuser Games for Social Learning

Instructor console view of multiuser “King of the Hill” game

Instructor console view of multiuser “Relay Race” game

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PT 5.0Key Benefits

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Packet Tracer 5.0 Key Benefits

Makes teaching easier by providing a free, multiuser environment for instructors 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 CCNA-level networking concepts

Demonstrate technologies and configurationsAuthor custom guided activities, labs and assessments with immediate feedback

using the Activity WizardUse 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

Visualization, animation and detailed modeling provide a teaching environment enabling exploration, experimentation and explanation in new visual ways

Supports self-paced learning outside the classroomSupports social learning processes via multiuser collaboration and competitionOverall enhanced student satisfaction and success, adds additional value to attract

more students to program

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Key Student Benefits Provides a free practice and visualization environment for the

design, configuration and troubleshooting of network environmentsExploratory development environment for CCNA-level concepts and protocolsDesign, build and configure your own network with drag and drop devicesObserve virtual packets real time as they travel through your network

Allows practice outside of the physical classroom and lab (can be run on home computers, mobile laptops)

Practice your problem-solving and troubleshooting skills at your own convenienceCreate and configure much larger topologies than possible with physical

equipment available

Provides a rich learning environment beyond standard networking technology instructional practices

Explore concepts, conduct experiments, test your understanding Provides valuable hands-on expertise to help you succeed in the classroom and

on the jobMultiuser functionality provides more collaboration, competition and fun learning

opportunities

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PT5.0 Summary

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Impact Summary of New PT 5.0 Features

On Students On Instructors On Authors

Additional Platforms

Ability to run PT on more operating systems, supports more out of classroom environments

Ability to run PT on more operating systems both in and out of classroom

Improved support for authoring on more operating systems

More Protocols

Free practice and visualization environment for crucial networking technologies

Ability to use PT to teach more topics (like IPv6)

Improved support for creating CCNA-level curriculum and assessments

Multiuser Functionality

More collaboration, competition, and fun

More support for social learning processes

More instructional design possibilities

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Packet Tracer 5.0 Key Take Aways PT 5.0 makes teaching and learning networking

technology easier PT 5.0 is a key Networking Academy e-learning

component PT 5.0 is not intended to replace experiences

with real equipment, but rather to complement them

PT 5.0 is a laboratory for teaching and learning; you can experiment, you can create your own virtual network “world”

PT 5.0 is going social with multiuser functionality; it isn’t just what you do yourself, it is what you can do with others too

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Packet Tracer 5.0 Availability Packet Tracer 5.0 is scheduled for release July 28, 2008 Available free to all Networking Academy instructors,

students and alumni on Academy Connection To obtain Packet Tracer 5.0

Log in to Academy ConnectionClick the Packet Tracer image on the left side of your Home Page

Select the appropriate download option

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Packet Tracer 5.0 Additional Resources The following additional resources will be available on the

Packet Tracer resource page on July 28, 2008FAQsDatasheetBrochureVideoLink to instructor training materials (including 2 new resources - Beginner and Advanced Guides)

New PT 5.0 supplementary activities

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Packet Tracer Discussion ForumAccess the global instructor community for questions,

discussions, and activity sharing

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