Archive for the ‘Cisco Training’ Category

First Ever CCDE Boot Camp in London - A Full Success

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Hello Networking Community,

last week we have successfully finished the world’s first ever public schedule CCDE Practical Boot Camp. We ran 2 successful CCDE written courses earlier this year already, along with some in-house CCDE lab training. Students were very satisfied with our 10 Day CCDE Practical Boot Camp. Most of them are doing the CCDE exam in London today. 

Following our recent success in the UK, we will now be running our CCDE Bootcamps on a global scale to serve CCDE delegates in Chicago and Hong Kong as well in addition to our London offerings. We are delighted that many Cisco Training Providers have already shown interest in advertising our CCDE Boot Camps. Additionally 2 more ProNet Expert Instructors are doing the lab exam today, so hopefully we will have even more CCDE Instructors available soon. 

Additionally we would like to thank one particular Cisco Gold Channel Partner for giving us the opportunity to run a CCDE Training Class at their premises later next year. We really appreciate your trust.

What makes our CCDE Boot Camp so special?
Well, we are currently the only CCDE Bootcamp worldwide, which has a certified CCDE Instructor teaching it. Our customers’ main question is always: “Who is the instructor and what’s his CCDE number”. Of course our customers recognize that a CCDE Bootcamp must be conducted by a CCDE. You wouldn’t take driving lessons with an instructor without a driving licence. Another big advantage is, that our instructor, Radu Hambasan (CCDE # 20090002) is not only a trainer, but also a real world Cisco Design Consultant. He brings all his real world experience into the classroom and that’s a bonus most training companies don’t have to offer. 

Over the last week, we have put our new website online (www.ccdebootcamp.com) where you can view some pictures and video clips from the CCDE Boot Camp. Additionally we have decided to also provide some sample Design scenarios for review. We welcome everybody to have a look at our new page and ask us any questions you may have in regards to CCDE Training.

Stay tuned for more updates.

Your ProNet Expert CCDE Team  
http://www.ccdebootcamp.com

Bespoke / Tailored Cisco Training

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Hello community

WebEx is great. Let me start my today’s blog with those words. I haven’t been blogging for a while and that’s due to the fact that I have been doing a lot of bespoke / tailored training for a variety of customers in the UK and the US in November. Customers more and more demand tailored training solutions which focus on the technologies they really use in their network operations. We see that trend especially in the UK Gold and Silver Channel Partners. Right now we have delivered bespoke remote and onsite Cisco Training to around 50% of the Cisco Gold Partners in the UK and it seems that we will do a lot more in the months to come. Especially Data Center, Wireless and Security seems to be in great demand.

If you need bespoke / tailored Cisco Training Solutions, contact ProNetExpert today.

Best,
Martin Voelk

Free Cisco Wireless Workshop 13.11.2009 | Newsletter 2009

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

ProNetExpert will be delivering a free next generation Wireless Workshop online on November 13th. 2009.
Everyone is welcome to join free via WebEx.

Please also have a look at our October 2009 Newsletter for more information:
http://www.pronetexpert.com/pronetexpert-october2009-newsletter.pdf 

Free 802.11n Wireless Workshop:
Date: Friday, 13. November 2009
Time: 10:00 am UK time
Duration: 2 hours
Delivered Online

Content:
- Next Generation Wireless Networking
- MIMO Technology Overview
- Changes to the Physical Layer
- Changes to the Media Access Control Layer
- 1140 & 1250 Access Points Overview

 

 

Bespoke & Tailored Cisco Online Workshops

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

ProNetExpert realises that especially in times of economy turmoil training budget is cut and short. Training however is necessary for companies and individuals to be able to support today’s ever complex networks.

 

Key advantages of our 4h - 3 day Cisco Power Workshops:

 

-> Candidates only focus on a specific technology on which they really need to gain knowledge on in order to support their particular network infrastructure


-> Employers don’t lose employees for full 5 days from their business operations


-> Employers save on budget by only spending training budget on a 1 day course rather than on a full week


-> Our Cisco Power Workshops take place at customer premises or are being delivered remotely through WebEx or Netmeeting.

 

Technologies being taught in our tailored and customized workshops include:

R&S
Router series: 800, 1800, 2800, 3800, 7100, 7400, 7500, 12000 etc.

Switch series: Catalyst 500, 2950, 3550, 3560, 4500, Catalyst 6500 etc. (all modules, port adapters and cards involved).

Routing protocols: Static Routing, RIPv1, RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, Policy Based Routing etc.

Switching protocols: Spanning Tree, VLANs, Trunks, Port Channels, Layer 2 Security, Multicast etc.

Design: Cisco best practises, Consolidation models, 3 Layer hierarchy (Access, Distribution, Core) etc.

Features: HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, NAT, DHCP, DNS, Tunneling, NTP, Syslog, RMON, SNMP etc.

Quality of Service: Congesting Management (Queuing), Traffic Policing, Traffic Shaping, LLQ, MQC, Congestion Avoidance.

WAN: Frame-Relay, IP MPLS VPN, Leased lines, xDSL, ISDN, Wireless Broadband, Satellite links etc.

Security
Cisco ASA Firewalls: 5505, 5510, 5520, 5540, 5580, the full Cisco PIX Firewall family, FWSM, CSM, Cisco VPN Routers etc.

 Cisco VPN: VPN 3000 Series Concentrators, VPN blades, Site-to-Site VPN, Remote Access VPN, Cisco SSL VPN etc.

 Cisco IPS: 4200 series, IDSM-2 blade, Cisco IOS IPS, Shunning, IPS Manager, IDM, AIP-SSM, HIPS (CSA) etc. 

 Cisco MARS: MARS 20, MARS 50, MARS 100, integration with IPS and CSA, reports, queries, local / global set ups etc.

 Identity Management: Cisco ACS, RADIUS, TACACS+, 802.1x, LDAP, OTP, RSA, certificates, biometrics etc.

 Router & Switch Security: Access-Lists, VLAN maps, TCP Intercept, Lock-and-Key, Anti Spoofing, CBAC, IOS Firewall etc.

 Network Admission Control (NAC): In-band, out-of-band, clean access client, ACS integration, 3rd. party integration etc.

 

Voice:
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (former Call Manager), Dial Plans, Call Routing, PBX interconnect etc.

Cisco Messaging, Cisco Unity, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity Express, Call Handling & Call Routing etc. 

Cisco Voice Gateways, E1/T1 PRI, E1/T1 CAS, H.323, MGCP, SIP, IP-IP Gateway, CUBE, RAS etc.  

Cisco Contact Center, Cisco Unified Presence, Cisco TelePresence, Cisco WebEx etc.

Cisco Telephony protocols, IOS Call Manager Express, Quality of Service, Voice over IP Security etc.

 


Service Provider
Service Provider Support: Service Provisioning, ISP Best Practice Design Principles, RIPE, ARIN, AP-NIC etc.

 IP Services and Routing: Cisco IPv4, Cisco IPv6, IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, Multicast etc.

 Cisco MPLS, Intra-AS MPLS VPN, Inter-AS MPLS VPN, L2TP, GRE, Carrier supporting Carrier, 802.1 QinQ etc.

 Cisco ISP Security: Anti Spoofing, Backplane protection, Data Plane Security, Control Plane Security, Attack mitigation.

 Cisco ISP QOS: MPLS VPN QOS, Service Level Agreements, IP SLA, Classification, Marking, Policing, Shaping, Queuing etc.

 Cisco ISP High Availability: NSF/SSO, Sonet APS, RPR, Graceful Restart, Fast Reroute, Link/Node protection etc.

 Cisco High End Products: CRS-1, IOS-XR, GSR 12000 series etc.

Storage
SAN protocols: Fibre Channels, SCSI, iSCSI, IPFC, FCIP, FICON etc.

Storage Design, Storage Virtualization, SAN fabric Design, SAN Security etc. 

 Fibre Channel Features: VSAN, Zoning, FC Domain, Port Tracking, Traffic Engineering, IVRs etc.

IP Storage based: SAN Extension Tuner, ISLB, ISNS, FCIP, iSCSI, Special Frames etc.

SAN Management: Performance Manager, SANTap, SME, DMM, SDV etc.

Wireless
Autonomous Access Points, Wireless LAN Solutions Engine (WLSE), WDS, Conversion to LWAPP etc.

 Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers, 4400 Series, 2200 Series, 5500 Series, WiSM module, ISR WLC modules etc.

 Cisco Wireless Management, Wireless Control System (WCS), Mobility Services Engine (MSE), Navigator, Spectrum Expert.

 Location Based Services, Cisco 2700 Location Based Appliance, Cisco Mobility Services Engine (3300 Series) etc.

 Cisco Wireless Security, 802.1x, ACS, WPA/WPA-2, AES, Certificates, Wireless IPS, Cisco Secure Services Client etc.

 Cisco Wireless MESH Networking, 1500 series MESH access points etc.

 Cisco Next Generation Wireless, 802.11n, 1140 series, 1250 series etc.

 Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN), Wireless Quality of Service (QOS) etc.

CCDE written and lab bootcamps confirmed to run in the UK

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Dear fellow Cisco CCIE’s

For a very long time our accreditation has been the highest certification level in Cisco Networking. Well, not any longer.

 

Cisco released a CCDE (Cisco Certified Design Expert) certification, not too long ago. The structure is similar to the CCIE – you have a written exam to pass and then you do a “lab” exam afterwards. It is hands-off though. It is all about Design, product choice, strategy and planning.

 

So far there is only a handful CCDE’s out there on the market and as you can guess already, those guys will be in highest demand in the years to come. Experts who do not implement and troubleshoot, but Experts who design multi million dollar networks for large corporations.

Does that sound interesting? It certainly does to me as a CCIE!

 

Now the good news is, that ProNetExpert is the only company in the world who can offer both a CCDE written training course AND a CCDE lab exam boot camp. We already have 2 fully CCDE certified instructors on board who are delivering our classes.

We currently run the first CCDE written Bootcamp in Guildford (just outside of London) and we have our next CCDE written and CCDE lab Bootcamp lined up for November in London already.

 

The classes are filling up quickly with CCDE candidates from all over the world and the CCDE lab Bootcamp in November is confirmed to run. In December there will be the next CCDE lab exam from Cisco, so the Bootcamp is ideally timed.


Next Dates:

CCDE written in London (5 days) 16.November – 20. November
£1,995 GBP + VAT

CCDE lab in London (10 days) 23 November – 04. Dexcember
£4,495 GBP + VAT

 

If you are interested in becoming a CCDE, visit our CCDE website at www.ccdebootcamp.com
or contact
sales-enquiry@pronetexpert.com

Please feel free to pass this message on to any of your friends / colleagues who may also be interested.

Best regards,

Martin Voelk
CCIE # 13708
ProNetExpert

First CCDE written and CCDE lab Bootcamps in the UK

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Hello Community,

with great pleasure we are able to announce that ProNetExpert is first to market on CCDE Bootcamps in the UK. Whether you are looking for a CCDE written training (5 days) or a CCDE practical lab Boot Camp (10 days), we are ready to deliver. We now have 2 fully CCDE qualified instructors who passed the difficult CCDE exams. Now you surely want to know who they are? ;-) Well, we will tell our customers of course, but we won’t blog it here. We don’t want all our competitors to approach our 2 fresh CCDE instructors.

From what we heard it is extremely difficult to find fully qualified CCDE’s anyway and most of those who passed the exam are pure Consultants and no instructors. However, our guys are both consultants and instructors.

Our first CCDE written class is a guaranteed date (10.08 in Guildford - just 30 minutes outside London). The next written and the lab bootcamp in autumn will soon be announced as confirmed classes as well.

Here are our dates / prices
10.08 - 14.08.09 CCDE written, Guildford (guaranteed to run) £1.995,00 + VAT
16.11 - 20.11.09 CCDE written, London (£1.995,00 + VAT)
23.11 - 04.12.09 CCDE lab, London (£4.495,00 + VAT)

For more info please visit our CCDE Bootcamp website at: http://www.ccdebootcamp.com

Maria Boyle
Technical Director
ProNetExpert

CCNA Training & CCNA Courses remain in high demand

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Despite the current economic climate, the Cisco CCNA Certification remains in highest demand. One reason certainly is the fact that students seeking a career in Cisco Networking now have the chance to specialize in a specific technology area. With the introduction on the CCNA concentrations (CCNA Security - IINS, CCNA Voice - IIUC - and CCNA Wireless - IUWNE) students can now attend CCNA Training in their favourite track. Standard CCNA Courses such as the ICND1 and ICND2 courses still remain in high demand as they provide the fundamental base knowledge before moving into another area.

Dan Holt

CCNP Training & CCNP Courses in London, Birmingham & Glasgow

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

ProNetExpert delivers its CCNP Training Courses (BSCI, BCMSN, ISCW and ONT) in modern training centres in London, Birmingham & Glasgow. Not only does ProNetExpert deliver exceptional quality but also all CCNP Courses are officially Cisco authorized -> taught by Cisco CCSI instructors, using official Cisco labs and training material. ProNetExpert offers the best price on the market. Only £949,00 for a BSCI, BCMSN, ISCW or ONT course. Please visit: www.pronetexpert.com/cisco-training-courses.html

Cisco authorized CCNA Course in London, Birmingham & Glasgow for £795

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

We would like to invite everybody to our website: www.pronetexpert.com/cisco-training-courses.html

We are offering best quality training at the best prices on officially Cisco authorized CCNA and CCNP training courses in the UK. Our ICND1 and ICND2 courses are on offer at £795,00 GBP, the CCNA Boot Camp is only £1299,00. All 4 CCNP Courses are on offer at £949,00 each (BSCI, BCMSN, ISCW and ONT).

CCNA Training, CCNP Training & other CCxP Training Courses in the UK

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

We are proud to announce that we already see very good response for our Cisco Public schedule and soon we will be able to announce our first confirmed Cisco courses in the UK in autumn. Especially the CCNA Training Courses (R&S, CCNA Security, CCNA Voice & CCNA Wireless) are filling up quickly. But also CCNP Training Courses (BSCI, BCMSN, ISCW & ONT) are beginning to fill up already.
Please visit http://www.pronetexpert.com/cisco-training-courses.html for our full public schedule.

See you all soon!
Your ProNetExpert Team
Your friendly Cisco Learning Partner Associate & Cisco Premier Partner