Cisco Advanced Services Education (ASE) offers hands-on, solutions-based training for building and securing data centers. The courses highlight products such as Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches, Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE), Cisco Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Firewall Services Modules, Cisco MDS SAN switches, Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (MARS), and Cisco Guard and Detector DDoS appliances. Through solutions-oriented training, students can build and secure a data center from end-to-end using the Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) framework. This approach both provides students with hands-on practice with data center setup, and exposes students to Cisco data center design and implementation best practices.
