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Packet Tracer 5.0 Overview. July 14, 2008. Agenda. Packet Tracer Overview PT 5.0 Key Features and What’s New Expanded Platform Support Enhanced Protocol Support Multiuser Functionality PT 5.0 Key Benefits Summary. Packet Tracer Overview. What is Packet Tracer 5.0?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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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