Digital Island Provides Web Services for Cisco Networking Academies

📅 October 10, 2001 - The largest e-learning laboratory in the world, the Cisco Networking Academy (cisco.netacad.net), is using Digital Island's (digitalisland.com) 2Way Web Services, to help students worldwide cross the Digital Divide. The Academy provides high-tech curriculum to more than 200,000 students in 130 countries and uses Digital Island's services to ensure that students and academies receive a fast and secure e-learning experience worldwide.

The Cisco Networking Academy Program is a comprehensive ten-course programdesigned to teach students Internet technology skills. Students are preparedfor industry standard certifications including the Cisco Certified NetworkAssociate, Cisco Certified Network Professional, and Network+certifications. The Cisco Networking Academy Program is an e-learning modelthat delivers Web-based educational content, online testing, studentperformance tracking, hands-on labs, and instructor training and support.
"With more than 25,000 students taking exams every day, we needed a serviceprovider that could scale to meet the rapid growth of the programworldwide," said Kevin Warner, Sr. director of worldwide education at Cisco."Digital Island's ability to deliver and manage the enormous volume ofonline transactions created by students and instructors was also importantin choosing a service provider for the Cisco Networking Academy."
IDC estimates that the U.S. corporate marketing for e-learning will exceed$11 billion by 2003. E-learning requires several Internet infrastructureservices, including Web site and application hosting, network services, andstreaming and content delivery services. The more than 8,000 academies inthe program connect to the Internet via Digital Island's global networkwhile student coursework and instructor materials are hosted at DigitalIsland's data centers worldwide.
"Supporting the Cisco Networking Academy Program demonstrates the globalscale at which Digital Island services can perform," said Tim Wilson, chiefmarketing officer, Digital Island. "Using Digital Island's proven 2Way WebServices to help Cisco reduce the costs of delivering education and ITtraining to students, instructors and classrooms worldwide demonstrates theapplicability of our services for the e-learning market."