Wednesday 18 May 2016

Cisco arranges core routing and switching certification to draw attention to the SDN, ITO

Certification CCNA routing and switching renewed reflects the skills new requirements caused by the digital transformations

The network engineer role is evolving as companies undergo digital transformations. In order to adapt to the changes, Cisco is refreshing its core routing and switching certification for certified network professionals have sufficient knowledge as companies move to the Internet of objects, cloud computing, network settings and founded network management strategies.

The changes announced today belong to the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification, routing and switching, which caters to the associate level network engineers. End of the year, Cisco introduced a new framework at the level of experts (CCIE or Cisco Certified Internet expert) to treat the same emerging technologies.

Numbering change business and companies migrating to the controller-based architectures, it is not sufficient for engineers network only know of routing and switching, said Texas Vashi, Director of product and marketing strategy of Cisco. 

Cisco is forecast by 50 billion devices on the networks and connections everywhere in the world by 2020, with an explosion of IP traffic in the world and the number of interconnects for machine to machine. "You have a completely different landscape that it is connected to what" said Jerry. "Also pushes many analysis of large data that must be analyzed and used and converted into actual operational results."

Certification CCNA routing and switching of direction updates the fundamentals of programmable networks, including the types of controller and tools that are available to support the networks defined by software. 

The revised programme aims also at how virtualized network engineers and cloud services will interact with the networks of the impact. Quality of service (QoS) principles are part of the update, including the brand name, train and monitor mechanisms to manage congestion. Emphasis on protocols of IPv6 routing and configuration, as well as increasing the coverage to include the technologies of VPN, VPN site to site VPN and dynamic multipoint VPN client.

"The role of the people working in the network must evolve," said Verwilghen. Everyone must be a security or a specialist of the scientific data, or all over the world need to know file virtualization? [No, but everyone should be aware of the way in which these technologies] will affect what they do every day. "

Today's business applications are originally a need for scalability and a different approach, more automated to configure the network, said Antonella Corno, senior marketing of Cisco. 

"This means two things: on the one hand, means that human beings human that shape the network must evolve in terms of skills and on the other hand, means that the infrastructure needs to evolve according to the characteristics to support this evolution," says Horn.

Demand analysis also raises a shift towards policy-based network management. "Facing traffic, data, real time allows you to be dynamically configure your infrastructure to allow applications to execute in the best optimized way," says Horn. "Things that until it had to be done manually, because of the scale, we cannot manually more. You need only a layer of automation. »

CCNA routing and switching certification has been updated two years ago. The new certification exam is being filmed this week, and there is a period of a few months before the new standards become mandatory.