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Network Management Augmented Reality & VR/3D Experience

Here is a video showing how to learn to manage networks with augmented reality & VR/3D

Watch Keynote Video

DevNet Associate NetAcad Course - Summer 2020

The new DevNet Associate NetAcad Course (DevASC) is to be expected in the Summer of 2020.

Recent online videos for NetAcad Instructors - IPD Week - February 2020

Every three months the technical team of Cisco Networking Academy are organizing live webinars about recent topics of interest for NetAcad instructors and coordinators.

Here is the list of webinars created in February 2020:

• Program Updates with Overview of Digital Badging and CCNA/CCNP News
• Understanding SD-Access
• First Steps to DevNet Associate: Parsing JSON files using Python
• Introduction to DevOps and CI/CD
• Interactive Gaming in Packet Tracer
• New Certification Exams and Opportunities for our Academies: DevNet Associate

It is possible to follow the webinars live every three months. If you register for the IPD Week Sessions you are also able to view the recordings.
URL: https://1040239.netacad.com/courses/863485
Only available for valid NetAcad accounts

Accessing the recordings till March 8th will generate a Certificate of Attendance for each individual Instructor.

The next IPD Week is planned from 4 to 8 May.

 

How to Deploy a Complete Network at a Sales Office?

This video is from Cisco on Cisco and offers a behind the scenes view at a Cisco Office. Tracking a real life product deployment in Charlotte, NC with wireless networks, switches, servers and routers.

Cisco Networking Academy Evolution Meetings 7-8 Nov 2019 -- Presentations

More than 80 attendees from Networking Academies in Belgium took part in the info sessions on 7 and 8 November 2019. More than a quarter of participants are education managers and coordinators. 

The Digital Economy has started to play a role in the world of education. The first education domains influenced will be technology and business programs at all education levels. In IT Infrastructure and Networking a very big change will be the evolution "from CLI to API". Managing systems and networks will be based on APIs.

In the second semester of the academic year 2019-2020 a large number of instructor workshops will be provided to allow teachers to prepare for the upcoming changes in the curriculum. Topics will be: Network Programmability (DevNet), (Cyber) Security, Packet Tracer (Autocorrection & Multilink) and topics like Wireless Network Management to support new modules in CCNAv7.

BiASC wants to thank Henallux, Digital Wallonia, Cisco BeLux and Cisco CSR for their brilliant support.

Pictures
Photos selected from Diegem and Namur Academy Meetings: https://photos.app.goo.gl/a9gJk1BcHwvRgWENA

Activities Planned by BiASC from January until June 2020
URL: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2019/11/biasc-cisco-academy-planning-2020-.html

The presentations of the different speakers can be downloaded using the links below.

Netacad Technical and Program Updates, Semyon Ovsyannikov Technical Manager, Cisco Netacad Europe
Download NetAcad Technical Update Belgium Nov 2019 SO

NetAcad by BiASC, Belgian IT Academy Support Center, Country Presentation v1.5, Yvan Rooseleer, BiASC
Download NetAcad by BIASC -- Country Presentation -- Nov 2019 V1-5

Rencontre académies francophones, Namur, Fabian Restiaux, BiASC/ Henallux
Download Rencontre Academies francophones 8 novembre

Métiers de l'IT et industrie 4.0 : évolutions et perspectives, Hugues De Pra @hdepra CTTO, Cisco BeLux
Download Metiers_du_futur_Biasc_CercleWallonie_hdepra_p

Cisco: Quelques mots sur le parcours ensemble, Armand Leblois, Cisco CSR
Download AL-Presentation Namur

Workshop CCNA Security - Authentication, Authorization and Accounting, Jonathan Van Geel, BiASC/ Henallux
Download Workshop-CCNASec-AAA

IT Essentials Foundation for IT Careers, Hans Roeyen, BiASC/ PXL
Download IT Essentials & CompTIA A+ - 7 NOV 2019-vHRO.02

Laura Quintana, Moving the Needle, Preparing the Workforce of the Future
Download LQuintana Keynote

Network Management Augmented Reality & VR/3D Experience
Watch Keynote Video

 

 

European Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2019

This Month is a Cyber Security Awareness Month. Cisco has prepared a special page with useful resources. They have posted two Cybersecurity courses on it.

Getting into Cyber

If you’re thinking about exploring a path in cyber, read our experts' personal stories on how they did it, and sign up to free online training.

• Blog: Tales from the front line
 
• Free online course option 1: Introduction to cybersecurity
 
• Free online course option 2: Cybersecurity essentials

Your Personal Online Security

Want to know how to protect yourself and your loved ones online? Here are some tips.

• Free phishing simulator: Create phishing campaigns to create more awareness
 
• Blog: Top 5 online scams and how to spot them 

The Threat Landscape

Get the latest cyber threat information from Cisco’s dedicated threat intelligence team, Cisco Talos

• International Threat Map: Search for real-time threat data
 
• Blog: The 5 biggest threats you need to know about
 
• Video: Fighting the good fight: How Cisco Talos combats cybercrime

The Future of the Cybersecurity

Get the latest insights into how to keep cyber criminals at bay

• Blog: Tools to fight cybercrime
• On demand webinar: Zero Trust for dummies

New VMware Course Content

Recently VMware launched new course modules on the topics of Cloud, Virtualization, Software Defined Networking and Containers. Most modules need 12 to 18 hours of work.

• VITA by NDG - Cloud and Virtualization Concepts - https://www.netdevgroup.com/online/courses/virtualization/cloud-and-virtualization-concepts
• VITA by NDG - Network Virtualization Concepts - https://www.netdevgroup.com/online/courses/virtualization/network-virtualization-concepts
• VITA by NDG - Software Defined Storage Concepts - https://www.netdevgroup.com/online/courses/virtualization/software-defined-storage-concepts
• VMware Kubernetes academy launched with several micro courses regarding Containers and Kubernetes here: https://kubernetes.academy/courses

IPD Week for Cisco Academy Instructors

Four times a year online webinars are organized for Cisco Academy Instructors. In 2019-2020 the webinars will focus on the new program updates and inform you about technical issues. You will be invited by mail and through other media. Please register to be updated and learn about the new technology evolution.

New Certifications, more Generic, more Specific

CCNA Certification firstly becomes more "generic". Moreover, it becomes also more "specialistic". I am very happy for Devnet certification and for the new names of the specific certifications tracks: Enterprise; Security; Datacenter; Service Provider; Collaboration.

Watch this video for a vivid explanation with Susie Wee from Cisco.

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VMware IT Academy - Content Roadmap - 2019

Rough VITA content roadmap outline:

• Introduction to virtualization course will be expanded with a cloud chapter extending it to 10 hours of material – ETA H2 2019
• Business Critical Applications course is nearing release stage – ETA H2 2019
• Introduction to Software Defined Networks is being worked on as we speak – ETA H1 2020
• vSphere – Install, Configure and Manage version 6.5 is receiving an extended end of life in the IT Academy program. Also the PSE vouchers and vSphere Foundations 6.5 PSE exam will remain available for the academic institutions to leverage

Where does Cisco CLI originate from?

Network Collective/ Podcasts/ Episodes

Terry Slattery and Rob Widmer played a significant role in the creation of the Cisco CLI, which has been the industry standard for networking CLIs ever since. In this History of Networking episode we talk to Terry and Rob about the history of how the Cisco CLI came to be and get the story on how the decisions were made that made the CLI what it is today.

URL: https://thenetworkcollective.com/2019/03/hon-cisco-cli/

 

Episode 48 – BGP peering in the real world

An excellent podcast on BGP peering. Covers various peering options like settlement and settlement-free peering, concepts like DFZ (default free zone), hot potato and cold potato routing and some of the differences between how an ISP or CDN (Content Delivery Network) peers. 

URL: https://thenetworkcollective.com/2019/04/ep48-bgp-peering-real-world/?fbclid=IwAR3r754eG55XTGwOQZDmBUPhpumGK-7MdpzafrxoXHhcPFFD508cdiWjm08

Play with Linux and Python on the Networking Devices -- Online Webinar

Play with Linux and Python on the Networking Devices, 8 May, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time: Register Here

What app would you develop if you could run it directly on a router or a switch? What full-stack system would you want to deploy and run directly on a router or a switch if they could run a full Linux operating system? Now that your imagination is running wild, join this session to learn how on a network infrastructure you can now run your Python code directly from the IOS CLI. You will also learn how to spin up a full Linux container on a router with either your favorite network performance-monitoring tool or with a chat-bot app that lets you manage the network from a messenger app on your phone.

If you register, you will get access to the recording.

IT Academy Show & Exploration Day | 23 MAY 2019

IT Academy Programmes

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On 23 May BiASC will inform all interested academy instructors from the Benelux about new IT Academy Programs in the domain of IT Infrastructure.
REGISTRATON LINK: https://goo.gl/forms/QBUZQnvKAYy1Cg392

The following IT Academy Programs will be presented, and you will learn how to get access to study materials and to hands-on labs for your students:

• Amazon Web Services Academy
• Cisco Networking Academy
• Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Academy
• RedHat Academy
• VMware IT academy
• CompTIA
• Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

Also statistics of Pearson Vue certification exams will be made available.

Date: 23 May 2019
Location
Odisee UC --- rue d'Assaut/ Stormstraat 2 --- 1000 Brussels ---- Polyvalent Auditorium 2215
Start: 14pm
End: 18pm

REGISTRATON LINK: https://goo.gl/forms/QBUZQnvKAYy1Cg392

Application Programming Interfaces, or API’s

This fragment is based on the Cisco Learning Library, interactive online course materials: Introducing Cloud Consumer Security (SECICC) v1.0

Application Programming Interfaces, or API’s, provide a mechanism for machine-to-machine or application-to-application communication. Through API’s, entities can send or receive “API Calls” between each other, and the receiving entity will attempt to perform the requested action.

API’s abstract the code subroutines and procedures of the application, and present objects and actions to the API consumer. For example, a firewall API might present an ACL object to the consumer, and ACL actions of add, modify, or delete. The API consumer would push a request to the firewall API to update an ACL, and the firewall would then instantiate the ACL or modify the API’s are not mandatory – application developers are not required to write API’s, or to publish any documentation about their API’s – but API’s are becoming the de facto standard as more and more product vendors implement “open” solutions.

Manufacturers who implement API’s in their equipment typically implement Northbound API’s and Southbound API’s.Each vendor implements and secures API’s according to their own best practices, but most API calls require authentication by the user before the API will call or execute internal code. Some API’s will allow read access without authentication, some API’s will not. Some API’s allow full control without authentication. It’s important that you understand the API mechanics of your particular application when designing your network connectivity.

Many modern APIs are accessed through HTTPS, though other protocols like SCP or SSH can be used.

When applications need to use APIs to communicate directly with other applications – without any user intervention – they typically authenticate through an API Key. Some API’s offer unique API Keys for a specific authorization profile – and, some API’s allow you to create custom authorization profiles – while some API’s provide a very basic, “All-or-Nothing” API Key.

You typically will find this API Key through the API interface (displayed in the GUI or you might have to issue a “GET” command for a formatted-text interface). You then copy this API Key from the providing application to the consuming application, and the consuming application can then make API calls to the providing application.Note that these API Keys are typically good until canceled, and the API provider typically does not identify the API consumer; the API consumer is authenticated, but not identified. As long as the API consumer presents a valid API key, the API provider will typically accept the incoming request. If you decommission the consumer application, the API Key is still valid unless you explicitly revoke access for the API Key or delete the key.

Network Function Virtualization and Virtual Network Functions

X This fragment is based on the Cisco Learning Library, interactive online course materials: Introducing Cloud Consumer Security (SECICC) v1.0

In the simplest architectural terms, a Cloud is just another network. That network could be yours, it could be your service providers, it could on-premise, it could be off-premise, or it could be a combination of these. 

In cloud services, this architectural idea of abstracting entire classes of core components of a network into some virtualized component is expressed as Network Function Virtualization, or NFV. The individual virtualized function (such as firewalling, routing, or load balancing) is a Virtual Network Function, or VNF.

"Fiber is the Future" Workshop

On 7 and 8 January 2019 BiASC organized a practical hands-on fiber optics training in cooperation with SixFourteen Projects and T'SAAM VTI Diskmuide. Fiber is the future. It is relevant for NetAcad instructors to learn the tricks of the trade. Anyway, for Fiber you need to be focussed, clever and handy. If you are in a fiber team, some team members have to be handy, others have to be clever. Everyone has to be focussed.

Topics

• Cables, connectors and splicing: Hands-On Exercises
• Design and Measurement: Practical Applications
• Corning Fiber IQ Programme 

At the end of the training you will be able to install and measure fiber cable in your own school.

Pictures: https://photos.app.goo.gl/EWeRSPKdezLzmDJW8

If you want to know more about this  practical two-day training for six participants, please contact <yvan@biasc.be>

 

FOSDEM Open Source - Brussels - 2 & 3 February 2019

FOSDEM is a two-day event organised by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM is widely recognised as the best open source conference in Europe.

Every year, FOSDEM hosts a wide variety of activities about open source. The 2019 edition features 452 speakers, 470 events, and 54 tracks. There are essentially six different categories of sessions and activities: keynotes, main tracks, developer rooms, lightning talks, stands and certification exams.

Date
2 & 3 February 2019

Location
Activities take place in 33 rooms spread across several buildings of the Solbosch campus of the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles).
ULB,Campus du Solbosch,Av.F.D.Roosevelt50,1050 Bruxelles,Belgium

Registration
No registration necessary

Good to know

• Cisco provides all of the WLAN hardware and manages the wireless network at FOSDEM.
• Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has a stand at FOSDEM.
• LPI Linux Certification exams have been scheduled on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. 

Being BiASC, Trusted Advisor

Being BiASC, a trusted advisor in innovation in IT education, we are in frequent contact with IT Vendors and other partners offering or supporting IT academy programmes.

All BiASC academy members have the right to be informed of developments and opportunities.

Staying on Top of Emerging Technologies

Opening your mind to emerging technologies Cisco Networking Academy is more than Routing & Switching. Digitization is changing the world: everything becomes connected, everything becomes software-based, everything generates data, everything can be automated, everything needs to be secured. We are offering you two new online courses to stay on top of the emerging technologies:

• Experimenting with REST APIs and Webex Teams
  For all IT students, also software engineering
• Networking Programmability
  For IT Students at the level of ICND1

As always, Cisco Netacad courses lay a solid conceptual foundation, but at the same time the courses and workshops are very practical as well.

The Digital Transformation is impacting all major industries. 75% of businesses will become digital by 2020. Digital technologies and new business models are impacting the way things are being done. Digitization is also transforming networking. Even if 75% of businesses will become digital by 2020, only 30% of digitization efforts will be successful.

The following sectors are undergoing rapid changes:

1. Technology Products & Services
2. Media & Entertainment
3. Retail
4. Financial Services
5. Telecommunications
6. Education
7. Transportation
8. Manufacturing
9. Healthcare
10. Utilities
11. Oil & Gas
12. Pharmaceuticals

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS

Cisco Networking Academy has produced workshops for students and instructors in order to prepare them and make them comfortable with intimidating new ideas, concepts and skills.

• Take students from buzzwords to Hello World on latest technologies
• Only take up 8 hours of valuable time
• Hands-on experience with enterprise software, e.g. DevNet
• Instructor Powerpoints & Activity Transcripts
• Formative evaluation + Short Summative Evaluation