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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.

Cisco NETACAD WORKSHOP DAY Agenda & Schedule

 

All Cisco Academies from the Benelux are invited to the NetAcad Workshop & Networking Day with a central theme of "Unique Opportunities for the Profile of the Future" at the Cisco BeLux Office on 14 June.
REGISTRATION URL: https://goo.gl/forms/mQygObc3KNUc9bYh1

AGENDA & SCHEDULE 

Theme: Unique Opportunities for the Profile of the Future
Target Group: Cisco Academy Instructors & Managers
Location: Cisco BeLux Office, De Kleetlaan, Diegem near Brussels, Belgium
Date: 14 June 2019

• 09:30 Arrival
• 10:00 Welcome by Cisco GM  
• 10:15 Welcome by Cisco CSR > Digital Skills - Keynote 1
• 10:30 NetAcad Trends and Evolutions - Keynote 2
• 11:15 Diversity > Female participation - Keynote 3
• 11:30 Short Break
• 11:45 BREAKOUT SESSIONS A-B-C
• 12:30 Lunch Break
• 13:15 BREAKOUT SESSIONS D-E-F
• 14:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS G-E-F
• 14:45 Short Break
• 15:00 Cisco on Digital Transformation - Keynote 4
• 15:30 Nico on Future Classroom - Keynote 5

BREAKOUT SESSION TITLES (AND SPEAKERS)

• Breakout A -- CCNA Security -- IPsec VPN Evolution : Why should we consider IKEv2 ?" (Pierre de Fooz)
• Breakout B -- CyberOps -- " What's a Security Analyst doing?"
• Breakout C -- CCNP Route Pilot Course -- First impressions of a new learning environment
• Breakout D -- IT Essentials -- Why is "anatomy" so important?
• Breakout E -- IoT Security -- Experience the necessity of secure IoT (long session)
• Breakout F -- DevNet -- What does a network programmer perform?  (long session)
• Breakout G -- VIRL/dCloud -- VIRL (Virtual Internet Routing Lab) : Do I need this network simulator in my Cisco academy ?" (Pierre de Fooz)

CISCO NETACAD BENELUX WORKSHOP DAY | 14 JUNE 2019

Welcome at the next NetAcad Instructor Workshop in Belgium => 14 JUNE 2019 => Three Languages

Need an update? We invite you and your fellow NetAcad instructors to join us at the Cisco office in Diegem to learn about evolutions that will influence your life as an instructor. Also new instructors are kindly invited.
Remark: the original date of 23 May has been changed to 14 June due to other bookings at the Cisco Office.

REGISTRATION URL: https://goo.gl/forms/mQygObc3KNUc9bYh1

AGENDA & SCHEDULE 

Theme: Unique Opportunities for the Profile of the Future
Location: Cisco BeLux Office, De Kleetlaan, Diegem near Brussels, Belgium
Date: 14 June 2019

• 09:30 Arrival
• 10:00 Welcome by Cisco GM  
• 10:15 Welcome by Cisco CSR > Digital Skills - Keynote 1
• 10:30 NetAcad Trends and Evolutions - Keynote 2
• 11:15 Diversity > Female participation - Keynote 3
• 11:30 Short Break
• 11:45 BREAKOUT SESSIONS A-B-C
• 12:30 Lunch Break
• 13:15 BREAKOUT SESSIONS D-E-F
• 14:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS G-E-F
• 14:45 Short Break
• 15:00 Cisco on Digital Transformation - Keynote 4
• 15:30 Nico on Future Classroom - Keynote 5

BREAKOUT SESSION TITLES (AND SPEAKERS)

• Breakout A CCNA Security -- IPsec VPN Evolution : Why should we consider IKEv2 ?" (Pierre de Fooz)
• Breakout B CyberOps -- " What's a Security Analyst doing?"
• Breakout C CCNP Route Pilot Course -- First impressions of a new learning environment
• Breakout D IT Essentials -- Why is "anatomy" so important?
• Breakout E IoT Security -- Experience the necessity of secure IoT(long session)
• Breakout F DevNet -- What does a network programmer perform?  (long session)
• Breakout G VIRL/dCloud -- VIRL (Virtual Internet Routing Lab) : Do I need this network simulator in my Cisco academy ?" (Pierre de Fooz)

Please register your name using the form below if you wish to attend the CISCO NETACAD BENELUX WORKSHOP DAY on 14 JUNE 2019:
URL: https://goo.gl/forms/mQygObc3KNUc9bYh1

Remark: the original date of 23 May has been changed to 14 June due to other bookings at the Cisco Office.

Hardware & Troubleshooting IT Essentials

Voor de online cursus IT Essentials bestaat er veel online materiaal met tips en informatie over hardware en troubleshooting. Ziehier enkele voorbeelden:

REPLACE DIRECT

Veelgestelde vragen LCD Beeldschermen
NL URL: https://www.replacedirect.be/nl/klantenservice/veelgestelde-vragen/vragen-beeldschermen.html

"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. 

Cisco Collaboration for Education - Classroom of the Future - 19 Dec 2018

Maarten Druwe of Cisco Systems explaining Collaboration tools

On 19  December 2018 a group of members from BiASC were invited at the Cisco BeLux office in Diegem to learn the ins and outs of online collaboration. Frank, Maarten and Rudy of Cisco BeLux thoroughly demonstrated the use of online collaboration tools to a group of about 15 academy trainers, allowing participants to ask all the questions about new communication tools and methods. Demonstrations of Collaboration Systems need restricted groups of about 15 participants. 

Webex Teams and Webex Meet are very well designed with open standards and are quite user friendly. If you like to experiment with Webex just send a message to <yvan@biasc.be>. Education prices are free for students and one euro per academy user (teachers, manangement, admin staff).

To start using all the possibilities a "presenter" needs a decent introduction. "Participating" in online collaboration is easy, just press "Join".

Pictures of the demonstration: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wgDyx3UyNH7WMubAA

=>    Members of BiASC who are interested in a deep-dive demonstration please contact <yvan@biasc.be>

 

 

NetAcad Days 24 & 25 januari 2019

Alle BiASC-leden worden uitgenodigd op de komende studiedagen op 24 en/of 25 januari bij Cisco in Amsterdam. Networking Academy helpt studenten om zich klaar te stomen voor de arbeidsmarkt van de toekomst. De sessies gaan door in het Nederlands.

 

NetAcad Days 24 & 25 januari 2019

 

Om het jaar 2019 goed te beginnen, nodigen wij u samen Cisco NetAcad uit voor de Cisco NetAcad Days op 24 en 25 januari op het kantoor van Cisco te Amsterdam. Tijdens deze dagen wordt u meegenomen in de nieuwste ontwikkelingen rondom het Networking Academy programma en de wereld van IT.

 

> Meld u aan
Inschrijven voor beide dagen is niet verplicht. 

 

Het Networking Academy programma bereidt sinds vele jaren studenten voor op de IT-arbeidsmarkt. In lijn met het dynamische en constant veranderende IT-landschap, investeert Cisco voortdurend in de Networking Academy. Dit zorgt voor ‘cutting-edge’ updates in het cursusmateriaal op onder andere netwerken, IoT en cybersecurity.

 

Met het toerusten in de juiste digitale vaardigheden, helpt de Networking Academy studenten om zich klaar te stomen voor de arbeidsmarkt van de toekomst.

 

MapQuest Directions API Application

In the Emerging Technologies Workshops about SDN and APIC-EM students will use Python to get hands-on practice with libraries and APIs for remote network management. There is an initial lab in the student course in which you learn to get information about real world route directions using the MapQuest Directions API.

=>   If you are a Cisco NetAcad Instructor and wish to access this course, send an email to <yvan@biasc.be> with the subject line "Access to Emerging Technology Workshop SDN & APIC-EM"

 

Sample Lab - Parsing JSON with a Python Application

In this lab, students will create an application that retrieves JSON data from the MapQuest Directions API, parses the data, and formats it for output to the user. You will use the GET Route request from the MapQuest Directions API. Review the GET Route Directions API documentation here:

URL: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/directions-api/route/get/
Note: If the above link no longer works, search for “MapQuest API Documentation”

For accessing the lab you will have to be enrolled in the Emerging Technologies Course. This is free for NetAcad Instructors

HOWTO integrate emerging technology workshops into the curriculum

Cisco Networking Academy will continue to offer specific Emerging Technology Workshops that can be used in addition to the existing curriculum.

Typically, the workshops use the Python programming language as well as relevant APIs to access and monitor services.

Topics

• Network Programmability
• DevNet
• DevOps
• Cloud
• Collaboration

Definitely, it is possible to use the Emerging Technology Workshops for any student group that is ready to grasp the new concepts and methods.

Overview how to integrate into the current curriculum

• PPT: Download Insertion Points - ETW 

More information about Emerging Technologies Workshops

• Download En_ETW_Overview-PPT_v1.0 (5)

Classroom of the Future Demo | Cisco Diegem | 19 DEC 2018

Geregeld krijgen we aanvragen omtrent de thematiek van "Classroom of the Future", en velen van ons zijn daarmee bezig.

Op 19 december 2018 is er de de gelegenheid voor een IT-lesgever én een andere deelnemer van een Cisco Academy om een demo CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE bij Cisco Diegem mee te maken. Dit initiatief komt vanuit de basis, en niet vanuit Cisco. Het zo goed zijn een IT'er en een niet-IT'er af te vaardigen. 

 

Het is wonderlijk te zien hoe graag de Cisco mensen zelf graag samenwerken met Webex Teams, en daarbij gebruik maken van HI RES displays en geluid.

 

Indien je graag deelneemt, geef de namen op van de twee deelnemers die aan de demo deelnemen. Het aantal plaatsen is beperkt.

 

Registratie URL: https://goo.gl/forms/LJXl6yUwjifinwr52

 

Wanneer	wo 19. dec 2018 10am – 2pm (CET)
Waar	cisco Diegem De Kleetlaan 6, 1831 Machelen

Cisco Benelux Lighthouse Hackathon - October 2018 - Pictures & Results

Click on the link below to view the pictures
Pics: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2C5z6Woih43AtTKF7
More pics: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1919063561495868&type=1&l=c3bca0270c

The jury consisting of representatives from business partners selected the following winning teams:

-1- Thomas More
-2- Odisee
-3- Defense
-4- PXL

A budget 12000 euro for prizes will ensure that the winners are able to go for a next step: 

• taking part in CiscoLive2019
• organizing events to attract young students into ICT education 
• obtaining hard and software for the Classroom of the Future
• buying hard and software for hands-on IoT labs

 

AGENDA 30 AUGUST CISCO

AGENDA 30 AUGUST CISCO DIEGEM

 

The aim of this meeting at Cisco Diegem is to inform academy instructors how to prepare students for the Lighthouse Hackathon in October

 

10-13 HACKATHON PREPARATION

Introduction by Rik max. 30'

Practical Issues by Yvan max. 45'

Course overview for hackathon preparation by Semyon max. 60'

Pitch Training intro by Osama max. 45'

Cisco Benelux Lighthouse Hackathon Brussels - Preparation & Information - 10-12 October 2018

Updated: 7 September 2018
All Benelux Academies of higher education are invited to the Cisco Lighthouse Challenge in October 2018 providing your students the opportunity to build a human network and to make the best of their talents in Brussels at the heart of Europe.
This document contains useful information to prepare for the Cisco Lighthouse Challenge in October 2018.
-The event is co-organized by Cisco CSR, BiASC and Odisee UC with facilities offered by Odisee University.
-The student challenge is focused on technology skills used for the benefit of democracy & politics.

Cisco Benelux Lighthouse Hackathon & Innovation Challenge 

Task: Create a prototype installation based on specific requirements; configuring and creating selected hard and software 
General Theme of the Hackathon: Democracy & Politics

WHAT IS A HACKATHON? - A “Hackathon” is not about computer “hacking”. It means “ACTIVE” learning - It is a three-day event promoting 21st century skills, design thinking and multidisciplinary team work - Students teams are solving an unknown challenge presented by a problem owner (external) - Key components: ideation, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and interdisciplinary communication - A Hackathon needs a decent  preparation - Participants are coached by a variety of experts and coaches.

DATES 

10 OCTOBER 2018 Arrival between 9-12am Lunch at 12am Kickoff at 13pm
Kickoff & Team Briefings - Preparation, Ideation & Design Thinking - Research & Analysis - User Requirements & Usability Design 
Solution Proposal - Prototype Proposal - Technical Preparation, Technical Analysis & Design - Coaching  

11 OCTOBER 2018  
Designing & Creating Prototypes - Communication & Marketing plan - Coaching  

12 OCTOBER 2018 
Finalizing plan & Prototypes - Solution Documentation - Demonstrations & Pitching - Jury Decision - Award Ceremony

Introducing Cisco Webex Teams

Webex Teams is a complete cloud-based collaboration suite that enables teams to:

Meet
Message
Call
Whiteboard
Share

The Webex Teams environment is free for Cisco Networking Academy students and instructors. Webex Teams is definitely a fantastic tool for developers, enabling you to create amazingly interactive applications involving APIs, request/reponse, messaging, python coding, ...

A new workshop has been created within Cisco Networking Academy to learn both the practical usage and the coding/automation possibilities of the new collaboration environment. During the course you will be introduced to Cisco Webex Teams and Cisco Webex Teams for Developers. You will learn how to obtain your Cisco Webex Teams Access Token which will be used in the hands-on labs.

More information: http://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2018/08/staying-on-top-of-emerging-technologies.html
Getting Started Guide: https://www.webex.com/includes/documents/us-meetings-gsg-6.12.pdf?TrackID=1029718&hbxref=&goid=eQSG

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

Cisco ASA NAT – Configuration Guide

The Cisco ASA and Cisco ASA-X firewalls provides nearly infinite flexibility in so far as their NAT configuration. From the modularity of using objects, to the simplicity of configuring Auto NAT, to the granularity of Manual NAT, to the precision of NAT precedence  — the ASA can do it all.

This article covers each of these concepts in detail, explaining what they mean, when to use them, and how to apply them. If you read it from start to finish, and were able to follow with the examples and illustrations, then you can decidedly consider yourself an address translation expert on the Cisco ASA platform.

Part 1 – NAT Syntax
Objects - Real and Mapped - Auto NAT  - Manual NAT 

Part 2 – NAT Configuration Examples
Static NAT - Static PAT - Dynamic PAT - Dynamic NAT

Part 3 – Advanced NAT
Policy NAT - Twice NAT - NAT Precedence - Identity NAT

Here is the complete guide: http://www.practicalnetworking.net/stand-alone/cisco-asa-nat/

April 16, 2018 By Ed Harmoush

API Deep Dive: APIC EM Rest API

This video relates to the Netacad Workshop Emerging Technologies APIC EM

A classroom session from the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live Berlin 2017. You can now download Cisco's Application Policy Infrastructure Controller - Enterprise Module (APIC-EM) from DevNet! APIC-EM is Cisco's SDN controller for the Campus and WAN. The first production release of APIC-EM included path-trace, Network Plug and Play (PnP) and Intelligent-WAN (IWAN) applications as well as services for location, topology and PKI. Three months later new capabilities such as EasyQoS and Dynamic QoS were released. Learn how to use the API's these applications expose to innovate on top of APIC-EM and integrate it into your operational environment. This session will cover the fundamentals of the controller inventory and topology as well as the advanced applications like path-trace, PnP, QoS and IWAN.

A. Radford, API Deep Dive: APIC EM Rest API, February 2017 -- URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqsSh9zag_A&t=171s

APIC-EM Presentation at CiscoLive PDF:  Download APIC-EM Adam Radford BRKRST-2641

Communities of practice

In recent courses Cisco Networking Academy is introducing the idea of communities of practice

Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor: a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineers working on similar problems, a clique of pupils defining their identity in the school, a network of surgeons exploring novel techniques, a gathering of first-time managers helping each other cope. In a nutshell:

• Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
• More information: http://wenger-trayner.com/introduction-to-communities-of-practice/

For our interests, CoPs used by networking programmers include:

• GitHub
• Stack Overflow
• Cisco DevNet

The Network Programmability with Cisco APIC-EM course refers to Communities of Practice (also known as Cop). If as a BiASC member, you want to have access to the Emerging Technologies APIC-EM course materials, please send an email to <yvan.rooseleer@biasc.be>

 

Cisco Benelux Lighthouse Hackathon Brussels | October 2018

Benelux Academies from Higher Education are invited to take part in the Cisco Benelux Lighthouse Hackathon which aims at improving the numbers of students interested in ICT education by showcasing the relevance and value of ICT both for social and business purposes. All academies are allowed to send a mixed team of six students and a teamleader for a real ICT education challenge. The winning team will be invited to CiscoLive 2019 in Barcelona to demonstrate the results of their work to a large audience.

The Cisco Benelux Lighthouse Innovation Student Challenge runs in Central Brussels from 10 to 12 October 2018. The first day 3-4 team members are required, the second day 6 team members are required.

For more information and registration click on the links below.

URL: Registration for the Cisco Benelux Lighthouse Hackathon

URL: Preparation for the Cisco Benelux Lighthouse Hackathon