Cisco Packet Tracer
Overview
May 2013
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• Cisco Packet Tracer Overview
• Packet Tracker Key Features
• Packet Tracer 6.0.1
• Packet Tracer Key Benefits
• Summary
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• 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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• 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 skills
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• 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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Simulate IOS Commands
Visualize Network Traffic
Collaborate on
Multiuser Activities
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• 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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Instructors can localize, edit, or enhance existing activities using the Activity
Wizard
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• 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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Real TCP
Socket
Connection
Real TCP
Socket
Connection
Real TCP
Socket
Connection
PC 1 PC 2
PC 3
3 Packet Tracer instances interacting via
Packet Tracer Messaging Protocol (PTMP)
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Instructor console view of
multiuser “King of the Hill” game
Instructor console view of
multiuser “Relay Race” game
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• Logical and Physical
Workspaces
• Real-Time and Simulation
Modes
• User friendly Command
Line Interface (CLI)
• Global event list (packet
sniffer)
• LAN, switching, TCP/IP,
routing, and WAN
protocols
• Activity Wizard, Lab
grading
• Multiuser functionality
• Multiple platform support
• Multiple language support
• Integrated Help and
Tutorials
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• 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 the majority of protocols and technologies taught in CCNA
Routing and Switching, CCNA Discovery, CCNA Exploration, 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
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• IOS 15 - Models new devices and
IOS licensing
• 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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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 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
hands-on 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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New Features Description Benefits
Next Generation
Performance Exams
Isomorphs with varying IP
addresses, device names and
topology orientations
Problem injection & event
feedback
Variable Manager
Address exam security by creating tasks
at the same level-of-difficulty with vary
“surface” features
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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New Features Description Benefits
Under the Hood Code
Improvements
Increased use of Coverity Code
Analysis
More of model exposed via API
Script Module Enhancements
More efficiently running code for users
Improved bug identification
More powerful PT Ecosystem products
that use the API and Script Module
features
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Host Based
Firewalls
Server with 2 NICs
HSRP
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 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
© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 30
• 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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• 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
Cisco Confidential
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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
Helps students develop 21st century skills such as decision making,
creative and critical thinking, and problem solving
A laboratory for teaching and learning; you can experiment, you can
create your own virtual network “world”
Packet Tracer is an integral part of the Networking Academy
comprehensive learning experience
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• Packet Tracer is available free to all Networking Academy
instructors, students and alumni
• To download Packet Tracer, log in to Cisco NetSpace, click
Offerings >Packet Tracer, then select your download package
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The following Packet Tracer resources are available on Cisco
NetSpace > Offerings > Packet Tracer
• FAQs
• At A Glance
• Overview Presentation
• Packet Tracer 6.0.X Errata List
• Packet Tracer 6.0.1 Executables
Windows
Linux
Linux – Ubuntu installation
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• Access the global instructor community for questions,
discussions, collaboration, and activity sharing
Thank you.

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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2 • Cisco Packet Tracer Overview • Packet Tracker Key Features • Packet Tracer 6.0.1 • Packet Tracer Key Benefits • Summary
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    Cisco Confidential © 2013Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 3
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4 • 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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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5 • 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 skills
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6 • 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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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8 Simulate IOS Commands Visualize Network Traffic Collaborate on Multiuser Activities
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10 • 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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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11 Instructors can localize, edit, or enhance existing activities using the Activity Wizard
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 12 • 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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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13 Real TCP Socket Connection Real TCP Socket Connection Real TCP Socket Connection PC 1 PC 2 PC 3 3 Packet Tracer instances interacting via Packet Tracer Messaging Protocol (PTMP)
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 14 Instructor console view of multiuser “King of the Hill” game Instructor console view of multiuser “Relay Race” game
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 15 • Logical and Physical Workspaces • Real-Time and Simulation Modes • User friendly Command Line Interface (CLI) • Global event list (packet sniffer) • LAN, switching, TCP/IP, routing, and WAN protocols • Activity Wizard, Lab grading • Multiuser functionality • Multiple platform support • Multiple language support • Integrated Help and Tutorials
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 16 • 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
  • 17.
    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 17 • Supports the majority of protocols and technologies taught in CCNA Routing and Switching, CCNA Discovery, CCNA Exploration, 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
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    Cisco Confidential © 2013Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 18
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 19 • IOS 15 - Models new devices and IOS licensing • 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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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 20 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 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 hands-on 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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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 21 New Features Description Benefits Next Generation Performance Exams Isomorphs with varying IP addresses, device names and topology orientations Problem injection & event feedback Variable Manager Address exam security by creating tasks at the same level-of-difficulty with vary “surface” features 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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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 22 New Features Description Benefits Under the Hood Code Improvements Increased use of Coverity Code Analysis More of model exposed via API Script Module Enhancements More efficiently running code for users Improved bug identification More powerful PT Ecosystem products that use the API and Script Module features
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 27 Host Based Firewalls Server with 2 NICs HSRP
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 29  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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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 30 • 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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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 31 • 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
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    Cisco Confidential © 2013Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 32
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 33 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 Helps students develop 21st century skills such as decision making, creative and critical thinking, and problem solving A laboratory for teaching and learning; you can experiment, you can create your own virtual network “world” Packet Tracer is an integral part of the Networking Academy comprehensive learning experience
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 34 • Packet Tracer is available free to all Networking Academy instructors, students and alumni • To download Packet Tracer, log in to Cisco NetSpace, click Offerings >Packet Tracer, then select your download package
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 35 The following Packet Tracer resources are available on Cisco NetSpace > Offerings > Packet Tracer • FAQs • At A Glance • Overview Presentation • Packet Tracer 6.0.X Errata List • Packet Tracer 6.0.1 Executables Windows Linux Linux – Ubuntu installation
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    © 2013 Ciscoand/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 36 • Access the global instructor community for questions, discussions, collaboration, and activity sharing
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Editor's Notes

  • #9 Innovative features of Packet Tracer help students and teachers collaborate, solve problems, and learn concepts in an engaging and dynamic social environment. Some of the benefits of Packet Tracer are as follows: Provides a realistic simulation and visualization learning environment that supplements classroom equipment Enables multiuser, real-time collaboration and competition for dynamic learning
  • #10 These screenshots represent typical examples of how an instructor might use Packet Tracer support classroom activities. Allows students and teachers to design, build, configure, and troubleshoot networks using virtual equipment Supports a variety of teaching and learning tasks such as lectures, group and individual labs, homework, and competitions
  • #12 This examples shows how you can use the Activity Wizard to also edit existing activities, in this example the instructions were localized for a Spanish-speaking class. Enables authoring and localization of structured learning activities such as labs, demonstrations, quizzes, exams, and games
  • #15 These are examples of 2 multiuser games from the instructor’s view on his console
  • #24 Packet Tracer 6.0 is a major release that includes new and enhanced functionality.
  • #26 The Encirclement Tool ( Add Shape Test) located in the Answer Network page allows you to specify certain devices and even down to the port level on those devices. Then the used is expected to use the Polygon tool and draw a circle around those objects and none of the objects excluded from the Shape test.
  • #27 The Packet Tracer LAN and WAN servers provide an effective and time efficient way for synchronously deploying multiuser activities and games in and out of the classroom.
  • #30 Packet Tracer benefits both instructors and students in many ways