St.Joseph’s College of Engineering and St.Joseph’s Institute of Technology has partnered with CISCO, the world leaders in networking to establish the Networking Academy (NetAcad).

Cisco Networking Academy is an IT skills and career building program which provides

1. Unique hands-on learning experience in the latest networking, security, and cloud technologies using simulation tools.
2. Professional certification recognized by employers worldwide.
3. Career pathways to connect to an estimated eight million networking jobs around the world through Netacad.

• Switch 24 ports (6)
• Router (4)
• Firewall (2)
• Server (2)
• Intel core i7 Processor Personal Computer (5)
• CISCO Packet Tracer 8.2.2

• 25 Students completed CCNA Module 1 – Introduction to Networks certification in CISCO Networking Academy.
• 10 students completed CCNA Module 2- Switch, Router and Wireless certification in CISCO Networking Academy.

• Build simple LANs, perform basic configurations for routers, switches, and implement IP addressing schemes.
• Configure and troubleshoot routers, switches and resolve common VLAN routing issues in both IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
• Configure WAN technologies and network services required by converged applications in a complex network.
• Acquire the knowledge to use simulation tool to design an enterprise network and evaluate design alternatives.
• Finish a design of an enterprise network to support applications such as electronic mails, centralised database access, and client-server applications.
• Address various issues such as IP addresses assignment, choice of internetworking equipment and network performance will be considered in the network design.