According to the statement of Cisco Systems, the project is a non-profit global project, and the college does not pay any fees to the company.
The project of Cisco Network Technology College adopts E-learning teaching method, and students from any region learn exactly the same content in Cisco Network Technology College.
Globally, there are more than 65,438+00,000 Cisco Network Technology Institutes, with more than 400,000 students and more than 20,000 teachers. China has more than 300 colleges with more than 50,000 students. Some people accuse Cisco of providing China with a specially developed Internet content filtering system and user tracking system. In February 2006, the US Congress held a hearing to ask questions from Cisco, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google. Henry Wu of China Information Center accused Cisco of keeping in touch with the central government of China and the national security departments of various provinces, and providing them with the latest technologies, including instant communication and command system between police cars, voice recognition technology and fingerprint recognition technology. Defenders of Cisco claim that, in fact, in Chinese mainland's current content filtering system, the router is only used as the underlying executive device to shield the artificially specified destination address, which is a basic function that any commercial router must provide.
Since 1980s, the rapid development of IT technology has completely changed the world in more than 20 years. People began to get used to the ubiquitous network in life: from cash shopping to credit card consumption, from face-to-face transactions to online orders, from reading newspapers and magazines to browsing the web. With its great impetus, the Internet subverts the tradition, and people begin to work, study and even live and play in a brand-new way.
Just like the evolution theory in biology, the network has been evolving with the changes of users' needs from its birth to today. The significance of today's network is no longer the Internet in the era of dot com, but a safe, efficient, flexible, fast and intelligent business network environment.
Today, the network has penetrated into every cell of society, and the great changes brought by the network are also impacting the business models of all enterprises. For example, users may choose other banks because the access speed of an online bank is a few seconds slow. Now, for enterprises, the network is more than just a platform for publishing information and a channel for placing orders. Today's network carries almost all key links related to business: transaction, information sharing, process management, market monitoring, strategic decision-making and so on. Network no longer only plays an auxiliary role in enterprise management, but becomes the core of promoting enterprise business development and gaining competitive advantage.
At this point, a new economic environment has gradually formed and matured.
In fact, almost all business managers today know that enterprises need to change in time and implement business transformation. But what should the new business model look like? How to achieve transformation? This has become a difficult problem for enterprises. Tracing back to the source, today's new economic environment is caused by the network, so the business transformation of enterprises must also be realized through the network. In the network era, the business model of an enterprise should be based on a flexible, cooperative, secure and intelligent network environment.
Such a network environment can support enterprises to respond to customer needs in real time, thus improving user satisfaction; It can effectively shield the security risks from all aspects and make the business run smoothly; Can fully integrate various resources and improve productivity; Be able to respond to market changes in time and help enterprises innovate constantly; It can also truly realize the interconnection inside and outside the enterprise and realize efficient cooperation. It can be said that building such a network environment is the basis for enterprises to implement transformation.
It is impossible to build such a powerful network by enterprises themselves. What an enterprise needs is not an IT supplier in the traditional sense, but a business partner with strong product, technology and service support, comprehensive solutions, rich industry application experience, especially a deep understanding of the brokerage model and a leading strategic vision.
Cisco is undoubtedly the most reliable partner in this regard. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the world's leading provider of network solutions, dedicated to improving people's contact, communication and collaboration. Today, the network as a platform has become an indispensable part of business, education, government and family communication, and Cisco's Internet technology is the foundation of these networks. In June 2003, SARS broke out in China. Cisco donated equipment and services worth 2,654.38+0.5 million yuan to the Ministry of Health and the Chinese Center for Disease Control to help build national, provincial, municipal and county-level epidemic prevention networks.
In July 2008, Cisco announced that it would invest 300 million yuan to support post-earthquake reconstruction in Sichuan.