Cisco Packet Tracer

Cisco Packet Tracer is Powerful Networking Simulation Tool.

Cisco Packet Tracer is a comprehensive, networking technology teaching and learning program that offers a unique combination of realistic simulation and visualization experiences, assessment and activity authoring capabilities, and opportunities for multiuser collaboration and competition. Innovative features of Packet Tracer will help students and teachers collaborate, solve problems, and learn concepts in an engaging and dynamic social environment.

Cisco Packet Tracer is available free of charge to all Networking Academy® instructors, students, and alumni.

Gain real skills with powerful network simulation tool where you practice networking, IoT, and cybersecurity skills in a virtual lab – no hardware needed!

Who uses Cisco Packet Tracer?

◾Learners exploring networking and tech careers

◾Networking, IoT, and cybersecurity students

◾Engineers, educators, and trainers

◾Distance teaching and learning

Cisco Packet Tracer - Use it to

◾Practice building simple and complex networks

◾Visualize how a network works

◾Practice rack, stack, and cabling skills in the virtual lab

◾Integrate IoT devices, Python code, or network automation

Some benefits of Cisco Packet Tracer

◾Provides a realistic simulation and visualization learning environment that supplements classroom equipment, including the ability to see internal processes in real-time that are normally hidden on real devices.

◾Enables multi-user, real-time collaboration and competition for dynamic learning.

◾Enables authoring and localization of structured learning activities such as labs, demonstrations, quizzes, exams, and games.

◾Empowers students to explore concepts, conduct experiments, and test their understanding of network building.

◾Allows students and teachers to design, build, configure, and troubleshoot complex networks using virtual equipment.

◾Supports a variety of teaching and learning opportunities such as lectures, group, and individual labs, homework, games, and competitions.

◾Supports feature expansion through external applications using an API to enhance the functionality of Cisco Packet Tracer in areas such as curriculum and assessment delivery, games, accessibility, and interfacing with real equipment.

Cisco Packet Tracer Supported Protocols:

Application

FTP , SMTP, POP3, HTTP, TFTP, Telnet, SSH, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SNMP, AAA, ISR, VOIP, MQTT, SCCP config and calls ISR command support, Call Manager Express

Transport

TCP and UDP, TCP Nagle Algorithm & IP Fragmentation, RTP

Network

BGP, IPv4, ICMP, ARP, IPv6, ICMPv6, IPSec, RIPv1/v2/ng, Multi-Area OSPF, OSPFv3, EIGRP, EIGRPv6, Static Routing, Route Redistribution, Multilayer Switching, L3 QoS, NAT, CBAC, Zone-based policy firewall, and Intrusion Protection System on the ISR, GRE VPN, IPSec VPN, HSRP, CEF, SPAN/RSPAN, L2NAT, PTP, REP, LLDP

Network Access/Interface

Ethernet (802.3), 802.11, HDLC, Frame Relay, PPP, PPPoE, STP, RSTP, VTP, DTP, CDP, 802.1q, PAgP, L2 QoS, SLARP, Simple WEP, WPA, EAP, VLANs, CSMA/CD, EtherChannel, DSL, 3/4 G network support

System Requirements:

Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10

Date Added:

19-Dec-2022

License:

Free

Developer By:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
https://www.cisco.com/