Cisco Learning Connection

Multimedia overview of SMB Class Security, Mobility, Network Foundation, and IP Communications.

Learn what can be accomplished through the implementation of the Cisco SWAN infrastructure. Learn what products are necessary for Cisco SWAN to be deployed, how to configure the devices, and how to perform various tasks related to the operation of the Cisco SWAN framework.

Bring to bear your networking knowledge, gaming acumen, and site survey strategy to meet the needs of 'our friendly aliens on a faraway spaceship'. Your role is to keep the aliens connected - and score as high as you can.

The game presents meaningful networking scenarios in an engaging environment for you to solve. The scenarios emphasize key concepts about wireless at an introductory level. The game also highlights the basic challenges of site surveys and coverage when setting up wireless networks.

Cisco has a highly mobile workforce, where almost every employee is issued a laptop computer. Given this user base, the question for Cisco IT was not whether wireless LANs should be deployed. Instead, Cisco IT needed solutions for cost-effectively controlling wireless networks, reducing their support costs, and assuring their availability and performance to benefit Cisco employees.

By deploying the company's own Cisco Aironet wireless LAN technology, Cisco IT has helped employees work with greater flexibility, mobility, and time savings. Other benefits include higher productivity across the company, more effective collaboration, and reduced costs for cabling and user support.