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EDITORIAL
Overview of the telecommunications in México...
Today
Mexico is one of the preferred countries around the world to receive
foreign investments. One of the most investor’s attractive
industries is the telecommunications industry. In the last years,
we’ve seen several international corporations acquiring Mexican
companies, to consolidate in a very important potential market.
Mexico is a country with more than 100 million inhabitants, but
most of them have currently no computer at home and therefore any
access to the Internet. The taxes the government set to telecommunications
services and products, have forced the consumers to avoid them.
In this current industry’s context, the companies have the
challenge to offer a faster and less expensive access to the Internet.
The users who can afford an Internet service, want more then just
the access. Their bandwidth needs have grown up and they are looking
for faster, although more expensive options. The emerging technologies
allow the cable television as well as the cellular phone companies,
to acquire the required infrastructure to offer Internet and phone
services over the same telecommunications equipment. Several approaches
have been made, however they result in a still very expensive solution
for the Mexican people and companies. Besides, they aren’t
meeting all the customers’ needs.
A police officer with wireless access (connection established via
specialized base stations on utility poles) can also show, in real
time, as he pulls over a vehicle. In our case, the police officer
was able to show the face of the driver. He was identified as a
Cisco employee, on his way to 'work', who got pulled over for having
his surfboard sticking out of the car.
However, the progress in personal communications technologies will
allow companies to return with stronger basis. The ones with access,
will be able to offer a faster and less expensive Internet access,
therefore the companies offering the typical access through a modem
connection, will have to redefine their strategies to compete against
the even more cost effective access solutions. On the other hand,
we have seen the efforts of many new companies that end with an
ephemeral success, due to their feeble technological infrastructure.
Lets remember that the government is an important axis in the telecommunications
development and that there are a lot of huge projects, like the
e-México project, that have been left behind for several
reasons, most of them out of our hands. Without the government promotion
it will be very difficult to make the market grow through the inclusion
to the Internet of the people with no current access. It is a fact,
that the companies involved are making a strong effort to get more
customers, but if they do not exist, the effort will have no results.
It is very important for the government to take up again all these
projects, to encourage the growth of the industry. It is also important
to stop the high taxes on the telecommunications services. However,
the government is not the only one responsible for this situation,
the companies need to improve their imagination and skills to meet
their customers’ needs with a low budget. A key to achieve
this is to train their staff. Cisco Systems, has strengthen its
training programs through the Cisco Networking Academy México
in several medium and superior education institutions in our country,
with the ultimate goal of helping the people who work in this industry
in their professional development. Knowledge is power and the one
who owns it will be the next telecommunications winner in Mexico.
Pedro
Parra, Ex – Certified Student CCNA, ITESM Campus Guadalajara. ^Back to top
If you are a current student or a graduate from the Cisco Networking
Academy Program and you are currently working, please help us update
our records by answering the following questions www.cisco.com/mx/netacad/encuestabt.shtml.
To
all the Cisco Networking Academy Community Support
Center for Cisco Certifications related topics.
The support team for Training
and Certifications has a new support tool available at www.cisco.com/go/certsupport.
This tool offers 24 hours support with a great variety of questions
and answers related to certification issues.
Some of the topics you can find an answer for are.
- Questions about CCNA and CCNP certifications.
- Questions about Prometric & VUE.
- Tracking to certifications tests, including the use of the Tracking
System to get the status of the certification to approve the CCNA
test.
To
all the Cisco Networking Academy Community
Communications and Networking terms dictionary.
This dictionary is a wide reference with thousands of technical
words related to the telecommunications world. With concise definitions
and embracing new technologies, this book is an essential tool for
both, the student as well as for the telecommunications professionals
in their daily activities.
English-Spanish, Spanish-English. Author: Anna Navarro Schlegel
– 612 pages- I.S.B.N.: 84-205-3471-4 Cisco Press.
For sale in www.cervantes.com
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OUR
COMMUNITY
Rafael Gonzalo Álvarez Campos, Tabasco
Technological University.
My
experience in the Cisco Networking Academy program...
Around 5 years ago I learned what a router was, but I didn’t
attach great importance to it; the only thing I knew was, that it
was an equipment that allowed the company I was working with, to
access the Internet. Later I learned it was a Cisco 2500 Series
router, and I can say this was my first contact with this company.
During 2000, already as a Teacher in the Tabasco Technological University,
the “Cisco Networking Academy”, who owns one of the most
important certification programs in the TI market, invited the University
to participate in one of the most innovative and important programs,
regarding the training of TI professionals.
The University started as a Local Academy in 2001 it became a Regional
Academy and thanks to that, I am lucky to know the two roles of
the Academies inside the program.
Being part of the program not only allowed me to develop my professional
skills through my achievement of the CCAI (Cisco Certified Academy
Instructor) and CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) certifications,
but also allowed me to grow as a person and to adopt new teaching
techniques as well as new methods to teach lab practices.
Through the Cisco Networking Academy, I have been able to share
my experiences and knowledge with my peer instructors as well as
with the students in the program. I also think that the development
of this type of courses by Cisco Systems is vital, because a lot
of our students cannot afford a course like this in a private institution.
It is worthy to note, that to be part of the Cisco Networking Academy
Program you don’t need to have previous or current IT studies,
besides there is no genre distinction; I make this observations,
because one of my peers studied languages and she could go along
with the program with no difficulties. She entered the program to
help some students with the translation of some terms, but the only
way she could do that, was learning about networking. I also had
the opportunity to see, that one of my students who had studies
in Telematics and a degree as Superior Technician, after taking
the first module and getting a letter recognizing the conclusion
of this module, found a job as Outsourcing in PEMEX.
Today, being an Instructor in the Regional Academy in the Tabasco
Technological University and being certified, has opened me the
possibility to work as a consultant.
The Cisco Networking Academy means a raise of my professional development
and a growth as an individual, not to mention that I am proud of
being able to train new generations, faced with an imminent lack
of highly qualified TI professionals, and especially of helping
the developing of México and Tabasco. ^Back
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DID
YOU KNOW...?
Cisco offers a new Routing and Switching specialization channel.
This new specialization allows the channel partners to be accredited
for its knowledge in Cisco’s routing and switching technologies.
As part of their permanent effort to deliver knowledge to all technological
areas of the channel, Cisco Systems unveiled a new Routing and Switching
technological specialization.
The new Routing and Switching technological specialization delivers
a structured training map and a verification process to assure that
the channel partners have the required knowledge to plan, design,
install and support the Cisco’s routing and switching core
solutions.
The accreditation is based on their ability to build, configure
and solve problems in the campus’ networks as well as in the
remote access networks, using the Cisco’s Catalyst multilayer
switching technologies on Ethernet and Cisco’s high speed routers
connected to LANs and WANs. Complete
article...
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Activities
Schedule
CATC Courses, Tamaulipas Autonomous University
1st.
Semester
From January 22nd to January 29th, 2003.
PADHIA
"Where everyone thinks the same, no one
thinks much."
W. Lippmann
At Padhia we offer Human Integral Develop programs, academic improvement,
pedagogic educational actualization, as well as integration for
cutting edge technological education.
For more information visit the website at: http://www.padhia.com.mx/cnap/index.htm
VUE
Remember that one of the program's benefits
is the discount of 50% in the certification exam. The approximate
cost without this discount is $150 USD
FLUKE
Fluke provides the active academies with special
discounts in a wide variety of tools and tools packages. Example:
Starter Kit:
Network Inspector Site License
Protocol Inspector Educational Version Site License
Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide
620 LAN CableMeter
110 Digital Multimeter
PEARSONED
First of all, we would like to wish you a
happy and successful new year 2003.
We want to introduce the new Pearson logo. This logo will appear
from now on in all our publications.
To start with this year’s events, from January 18th to 21st,
we have Expocomm México 2003 in the “Centro de Expositions
y Conventions Las Américas”. Pearson Education will
have a stand, where you can find all news, as well as the Cisco
Press backlist so it would be great if you could visit us. In the
next month’s bulletin, we’ll inform you the number of
our stand.
15 % off in all Cisco Press books, if you are a student or a teacher
and part of the Cisco Networking Academy Program México.
CATC
SUPPORT
Academy Connection: Feedback, a vital stage…
We
have been longing for the aimed launching of Academy Connection,
the community in Mexico and Latin America know about the relevance
of the continuity in the different academic processes, to register,
evaluate and track the diverse CCNA , CCNP classes as well as the
sponsored courses. The best of it is, that the same users will be
the main contacts, instructors and students, who after the launching
have experienced the new image and usefulness of it and can provide
us with their valuable feedback, which in turn will improve the
management of the classes.
For the portal to have a great evolution it is necessary to ask
for feedback to the several teams that have faced the challenge
and the responsibility of large amounts of information.
We are aware of the big efforts needed every day to keep the portal’s
integrity and to fix certain events that can make an unstable system.
For these reasons, it is very important to generate detailed reports
to help us improve this tool that is an essential part of our worldwide
successful program.
"Communication is an important part of the change".
May I help
you?
How can I download the curriculum offered in
my Academy?
To
download the curriculum offered in your Academy, follow these steps.
1.-
Access the Academy Connection
2.- In the “Resources” section, located on the left side
of your screen, click on "Course Materials"
3.- Click on “Download Curriculum”
4.- Click on the symbol to the left of the desired curriculum.
5.- Select either student or instructor
6.- Select the course
7.- Select the language for the downloaded material
8.- Select the curriculum’s version
9.- Select the format of the file, ZIP or EXE
10.- Please read the Curriculum’s downloading agreement and click
on “I Accept”
11.- Save the file.
