NetAcademy E-Newsletter México

As the years go by, the Telecommunications and Information Technologies world becomes more important for the societies worldwide, because of their contribution in the improvement of life quality and several working processes, their help in immense costs savings and also easing the flow of information, to such a point that it does not matter how far you are or where you are, you are able to access a whole world of information.

But, how does all this about telecommunications appear? It is very simple, it starts with the need of the human beings to communicate with each other, the need to break down the traditional sender-message-receiver communication model. We can briefly review the events that ease the telecommunications' development.

1850 appears the telegraph and in 1876 the telephone, but it is until the second half of the 20th century that it became an essential element within the telecommunication systems.

The next phenomenon was in 1945 due to military interests. The communications' progress achieved during the World War II was crucial for their development. During those years, the human ingenious was forced to design systems that were faster, more secure and private than the current ones. Both World Wars were events that affected both, modern telecommunications and technology and scientific research overall.

Later, in 1945 appear the first satellites. The product of a very interesting multinational collaboration to use the space, was the launching and starts of operations of the first commercial communication's satellite, INTELSAT I, also known as "the early rising bird". INTELSAT I had a capacity of 240 phone circuits. After two years, two bigger satellites were launched, to integrate a global satellite communications systems. These satellites, Pacific and Atlantic INTELSAT II provided telephone communications (720 voice circuits) between any cities around the planet. INTELSAT V, launched in 1980, can process 12 000 phone calls simultaneously in addition to two TV channels.

Regarding the Internet, it originated in the USA at the end of the 60s and was known as ARPANET. During the 70s, this network was used by the Department of Defense and by some universities and research groups. It was in those years that the protocol TCP/IP appeared. The first international connections were achieved in 1973, but it was until 1985 that several main supercomputers were installed that it started to work. It was used in Universities for information interchange and query.

Computing became a mass activity with the appearance of the Personal Computers. In mid 90s, one of the greatest changes were the friendly browsers, which allowed ordinary people to browse the Internet. This was an era were people discovered the potential of data networks more than the power of PCs itself.

This goes far beyond finding a job, beyond having a better salary, we are talking about being part of a generation and being able to say we contributed to improve the education level in Mexico, and this is only regarding the instructors of the program, if we referred to the alumni of the program, we can say there is an enormous potential to improve productivity an communication in our country. We can say that CCNA and CCNP are more than just certifications, they are our means to collaborate in the Technological Development of Mexico The TAT-8 system, the first transatlantic fiber optics cable started operations between USA and Great Britain. This system carries 40 000 phone calls simultaneously, which is more than what carry other cables and combined transatlantic satellite links.

As we can appreciate, the development in telecommunications is not going to stop. In Mexico we have still seen the top of the iceberg: convergent communications, mobile wireless communications, internet and e-business represent an immense working field and only prepared people will be able to contribute in this development and they are the ones who in the future will say "I was part of the technological changes in Mexico".

This is why we believe in an e-Learning program called Cisco Networking Academy. This program teaches students not only to design, configure and install information networks, but it also gives them a general overview of what they can achieve with a Cisco Systems certification.

This goes far beyond finding a job, beyond having a better salary, we are talking about being part of a generation and being able to say we contributed to improve the education level in Mexico, and this is only regarding the instructors of the program, if we referred to the alumni of the program, we can say there is an enormous potential to improve productivity an communication in our country. We can say that CCNA and CCNP are more than just certifications, they are our means to collaborate in the Technological Development of Mexico.

Cisco Networking Academy Mexico.

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