Cisco Packet Tracer Overview June 2014
Agenda • Cisco Packet Tracer Overview • Packet Tracker Key Features • Packet Tracer 6.1 • 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 visualization
experiences, complex assessment and activity authoring capabilities, and opportunities for multiuser collaboration and competition
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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
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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 builds social,
communication, and negotiation skills.
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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
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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 3 Packet Tracer instances interacting via Packet Tracer Messaging Protocol (PTMP)
Real TCP Socket Connection
PC 1
Real TCP Socket Connection
Real TCP Socket Connection
PC 2
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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
• Activity Wizard, Lab grading
• Real-Time and Simulation Modes
• Multiuser functionality
• User friendly Command Line
• Multiple platform support
Interface (CLI) • Global event list (packet sniffer)
• Multiple language support • Integrated Help and Tutorials
• 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, 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 © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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Packet Tracer 6.1
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Packet Tracer 6.1 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 6.1 Features (1 of 3) New Features
Description
Benefits
IPv6 Enhancements
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, ASA5505 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 handson 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 Enhance “learning by modeling”
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Packet Tracer 6.1 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 Variable Manager
Enables a wide variety of practice, feedback, intelligent tutoring, and game-like experiences
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 6.1 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
Improved bug identification
Script Module Enhancements
More powerful PT Ecosystem products that use the API and Script Module features
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IPv6 Enhancements
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Supports Cisco ISR 1941, 2901, 2911, ASA5505 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 multiuser
collaboration and competition
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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 Provides valuable hands-on expertise to help you succeed in the classroom and on the job © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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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
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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 > CCNA >
Cisco 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 > CCNA > Cisco Packet Tracer • FAQs • At A Glance • Overview Presentation • Packet Tracer 6.1 Executables
Windows Linux Linux – Ubuntu installation
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Packet Tracer Discussion Forum • Access the global instructor community for questions, discussions,
collaboration, and activity sharing: Cisco NetSpace > Communities > Packet Tracer
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