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It is already February and we started to countdown. We are only a month away from the Academy Conference 2005 to be held on March 14 - 15 in Puebla.
Everyone interested in an update should attend this event. During the event we will have the opportunity to listen to industry leaders and experts, as well as to meet some of Cisco's customers and partners and other sponsors.
In addition to the activities in this event's framework, on March 16 we will have the Retooling event for Regional Academies' actualization and feedback.
Time passes by very fast, therefore we want to remind our community to register as soon as possible, before the registration period is over. It is very important to pay after registration to secure your space.
We hope to see you all there! Register today! See you in Puebla.
For more information on this event and the activities' schedule, please visit the following Web page:
www.academyconference.com
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Adopt an Academy.
In January 2005, Fundación Televisa and Cisco Systems undertook a joint initiative through the program Adopt an Academy. Through this alliance, the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana in Mérida, belonging to the Regional Academy in the Universidad Tecnológica de Tabasco, will be provided with the required infrastructure for their students to develop on-hands skills in the Cisco Networking Academy Program, it will also assume the responsibility to cooperate with the community.
Cisco Systems México established a commitment with our country and has expressed it through the use of information technology on behalf of the educational development in our country, carried on by the Cisco Networking Academy Program with the support of government, public and private education institutions, non-government and international organizations, as well as industry leader business. Fundación Televisa has elaborated many programs dedicated to drive the development of Mexican children and teenagers.
More than 100 students of this Academy are already members of this initiative. 36 students of the Telematic Information Technologies course, who are taking the 3rd module of the program, were elected to make professional practices in the media rooms of UNETE (Businessmen Union for Education Technology; Unión de Empresarios para la Tecnología en la Educación).
This is the first Academy adopted by a private foundation. We can foretell the success of the UT Metropolitana in this project, and we thank the enthusiastic participation of authorities, students and instructors.
We hope to see more alliances materialize in the near future, to help strengthen the technological education of the country.
Fundación Televisa's 365 days mission is to broaden the development possibilities of each person. For more information, please visit www.fundaciontelevisa.com.
New Academy Connection Benefits.
You can build your curriculum inside Career Connection / Employment Exchange.
Because you asked for it, Cisco Networking Academy México created Career Connection in Spanish, just for you. New Employment Exchange where you will be able to create your curriculum and postulate directly to participating companies.
Do not let it go; build your curriculum right now. Follow these simple steps:
- Enter the web site Career Connection / Employment Exchange at http://cc.netacad.net.
- Click on “Managing curriculum” in the navigation bar on the left side of your screen.
- Click on “Create New curriculum.
- Follow the steps of the Curriculum Wizard.
You can view your curriculum anytime by clicking on "Preview Curriculum", located in the upper part of the text fields.
You can have as much as 3 curriculum versions attached to your account, but only one will be available to the companies looking for candidates. You will need to activate the desire curriculum, following these steps:
- Click on “Managing curriculum” in the navigation bar on the left.
- Click on "Edit”. It is a pen and paper icon.
- Click on "Make it available".
Remember that to access Career Connection / Employment Exchange, you need to be an Alumni inside the Program.
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Alumni Connection.
  Do you live in USA, Canada o Mexico and are looking for a job in the IT field? Have you already published your Curriculum Vital in Career Connection? Cisco is preparing a marketing campaign with its different partners, customers and organizations who need its curriculum published.
Don't wait any longer and publish your curriculum in: http://cc.netacad.net
Reminder:
Please be sure to register as candidate and not as employer, otherwise your curriculum will not be available to employers. Please visit the Employment Exchange on a regular basis, to learn about new vacancies o scholarship programs.
Our student's opinion...
"After finishing CCNA 1 and 2, I am very excited to go on with the challenge of the next modules. The knowledge I've gained through the course has been very useful at my job and at school. I feel I have a knowledge advantage over my class mates who are not taking this kind of courses".
David Barrera.
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México.
Alumni.
"I like the courses offered by Cisco through the e-lerning system, because the multimedia information improves the learning process and lab hands-on practices help you to get familiar with networking resources".
Liliana Ramírez Enríquez.
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México.
Alumni.
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Software Support.
Cisco's software support is offered through several means of service agreements, and it provides the customers with the possibility to access IOS software upgrades and enhancements, as well as for the network's operating systems applications, at no additional cost.
Software support helps protect your network and your investment, by enabling you to easy extend and add new functionality to your devices or applications. Upgrades and enhancements are provided via downloads, while fixes and patches can be found at http://www.cisco.com.
As mentioned in earlier editions, through a Cisco's SMARTnet agreement customers have access to all Cisco IOS upgrades and enhancements.
Software Application Support (SAS) and Software Application Support Upgrades (SASU) agreement, enable customers to access upgrades and enhancements to applications beyond Cisco's IOS software, including Call Manager, Contact Center, Unified Messaging voice, CiscoSecure, Cisco Works, Wireless, IPTV e IPNC video, among others.
A support agreement help reduce enterprise's operation costs while increasing network's functionality with no additional charges. Consider the following: for version 9.0 of Cisco's IOS software (the current market version is 12.0), nearly 900 functionalities were gradually added. Without a service agreement, how much would the company have to invest to separately acquire each of these functionalities?.
Ana Saputi.
Customer Advocacy.
E-mail: asaputi@cisco.com
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Help Desk in Spanish.
As member of the Cisco Networking Academy Program, you can request for help in Spanish any time you need it.
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Technology Report.
 IP Telephony. Success story.
City Council of Tijuana:
As one of the municipalities with more activity and more vanguard services requirements due to its high bussinesmen and visitor´s traffic, the city council of Tijuana included its technological upgrade as essencial part of its Municipalty Development Plan.
Therefore, the city council of Tijuana became one of the first areas of the country to get into a modern voice and data network based on an advanced IP communications infrastructure.
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One of Cisco's main goals offering the Program to students is to give them the possibility to improve their job opportunities when they graduate. This cannot be accomplished if students do not certify. The certification is the tangible proof that they posses the required knowledge to solve real world problems. Instructors have a lot to do with this issue as they are the students' example.
In accordance with the worldwide quality rules that control the program, instructors must get certified. For more information on this topic, please click here or contact
Erica Peralta: eperalta@netacadlatam.com.
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Benefits for students and instructors.
PADHIA.
 Cisco Networking Academy Program Mexico and Padhia developed an alliance to offer programs about Human development, academic improvement, pedagogic updating for teachers, as well as top education technology integration.
Visit us, click here!
"History has shown that outstanding winners, have in general, found heartbreaking obstacules before succeeding. They won because they refused to be defeated".
- B.C. Forbes.
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Retooling 2005 Overview.
 As you already know, Retooling event takes place every year in order for Regional Academies to receive program updates, status, training improvements, and, of course, to hear the feedback of the Main Contacts of each Academy.
Following is the Retooling 2005 agenda:
Verónica Tostado, Area Academy Manager Mexico for the Cisco Networking Academy Program Mexico will welcome everyone; Everardo Huerta in charge of the Cisco Academy Training Center (CATC) in our country, will talk about very important topics, since last year we had several unfulfilled upgrade issues.
One of these topics are the bridge courses. These courses have been offered for free, but the results were not the expected. Therefore, during 2005 these courses are going to be instructor led, they will be mandatory, and the will have an additional cost.
Another relevant issue is the curriculum update, from version 2.1.2 to 3.1. Due date is August 2005. Academies that do not fulfill this requirement, will be cancelled.
Jackie Barker will talk about the program's quality, since she is part of the Networking Academy corporative and is in charge of the quality of the program as well as of the new site.
On the other hand, we will analyze current academies' status. After several monitoring and control visits to verify compliance of Regional Academies to the Quality Assurance Plan (QAP), we have identified Academies' weaknesses as well as areas that need to be reinforced.
Later, Isaac Majerowicz, Technical Manager of the Program will explain the new options of Academy Connection, the most important tool for Instructors and Administrators to manage the system. He will also talk about the Qtick program, designed to evaluate Regional Academies through Local Academies.
The operations team in Mexico will explain the advantages of being a graduate of the Program and the steps needed to join the program's Employment Exchange.
To finish, we will talk about Career Connection, a follow-up program to keep track of the features and advantages of the professional development of our alumni.
It is very important for Regional Academies to attend this event. The Retooling will be held during the Academy Conference 2005 on March 16 in the Centro de Convenciones Puebla.
Operations Teams.
CATC MX.
Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas.
E-mail: catcmx@uat.edu.mx
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Cisco Trivia.
What is a DLCI?
A) It is the identification of network communicating devices.
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It is a number identifying an end point in a Frame Relay network.
C) It is the name given to the Internet Service Provider.
Congratulations to Janeth Herrera Robles, winner of the January trivia.
If you are the first one to correctly answer this Quiz, you will get a surprise gift. Send your answer via e-mail to rdelavega@netacadlatam.com. Deadline for submitting your answer is January 31, 2005. Do not forget to send us your username for the Academy Connection to validate your participation.
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New Request Process for CCAI Certification.
In an effort to streamline the CCAI certification process, Cisco will be implementing a new online request procedure. To request your CCAI Certification, please follow these steps:
- Login to the Academy Connection.
- From the Instructor Homepage, under Professional Development, select "Course Completion and Certification Status".
- From this page, you will be able to:
- View the requirements by selecting "How to become CCAI Certified".
- Request CCAI Certification by selecting "Request CCAI Certification".
Once you have submitted your CCAI certification request, you will receive a confirmation email, and if you qualify a certificate will be sent within 6 weeks.
Help Desk en Español Latinamerica.
Cisco Networking Academy Program.
E-mail:
webmaster-espanol@cisco.netacad.net
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