Muhammad Musa
2 min read5 days ago

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Enhance Your Lab Skills with Packet Tracer

If you want to improve your lab exercises and, as a result, improve your learning of the networking concepts this is very useful if you invest some time in practicing on Packet Tracer.

What is Packet Tracer?

Packet Tracer is actually a great simulation tool which is designed and developed by Cisco. The logical network topologies can be imagined and implemented, network devices can be manipulated and simulated network traffic without the necessity of the real-world network hardware. The tool is expected to provide the experience of the virtual lab through which students, instructors, and other people interested in the networking get to practice the networking concepts, solve some of the problems, and get to implement their ideas on how a network works.

Advantages of Practicing with Packet Tracer

1.Cost-Effective Learning

2.Interactive Learning Environment

3.Flexibility and Accessibility

4.Wide Range of Features

5.Realistic Simulations

How to Get Started with Packet Tracer

Download and Installation: Packet Tracer itself is beneficial because it is free to download if you have an account to Cisco Networking Academy. Initial to perform the Cisco MARS assessment, there is no necessity of buying or licensing the product, they only need to sign up and download from Cisco’s website with reference to the product installation procedure.

Explore Tutorials and Resources: If the users who want to get Packet Tracer work, they can get much informative information of Cisco from building to the tutorial and document and the environment. The tutors can assist you in the beginning of the program and convey the functioning and workings of this program, along with the features and changes that this program offers.

Create and Experiment: In addition, it is suggested to use concrete examples and begin with the simple network topologies to gradually increase the level of their difficulty. Modify the topologies, execute traffic on the network, do problems to know more ideas in networking.

Join Study Groups: It is with the fellowship of other students or maybe by following social media groups that one can learn. It is suitable to work with other people since one can be able to share information with others and listen to other people on how they can apply networks.

Thanks for Reading.

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Muhammad Musa

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