signed to help deliver an IT- and networking-centric academic approach to developing a new generation of network-savvy workers. This shared commitment to deliver solutions and services encompassing products, discounts and best practices, will help make Cisco Networking Academy instructors and students successful in learning the skills needed to fill the more than 850,000 IT and networking job openings worldwide." (http://cisco.com/warp/public/779/edu/academy/overview/benefits.html, 23 Feb).
             "Cisco's vision is that the Internet will transform the way people work, live, play, and learn. Today change is happening faster than ever before, and Cisco helps companies turn that change into a competitive advantage, by helping them become agile. How? With expertise, a strong network of partners, and superior technology including intelligent network services and scalable architectures. Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet" (http://cisco.com/warp/public/779/largeent/why_cisco/vision.html, 23 Feb ).
             Cisco Systems provides end-to-end networking solutions that customers use to build a unified information infrastructure of their own, or to connect to someone else's network. An end-to-end networking solution is one that provides a common architecture that delivers consistent network services to all users. The broader the range of network services, the more capabilities a network can provide to users connected to it.
             Cisco Systems offers the industry's broadest range of hardware products used to form information networks or give people access to those networks; Cisco IOS software, which provides network services and enables networked applications; expertise in network design and implementation; and technical support and professional services to maintain and optimize network operations. Cisco is unique in its ability to provide all these elements, either by itself or together with partners.
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