Modern world's economic is join an epoch of informatisation. For experts' estimation every organization is short of specialists of information technology. Quantity of vacancies constantly increasing. Analysts of Gardner Group (USA) consider that labour-market in sphere of information technologies consists not less then 1,6 millipons work places every year, but more then half of them remains unoccupied to the end of year.

Solving a problems of specialists training, Cisco Systems Corporation, Inc. (world's leader at network technology development, telecommunication equipments and software manufacture) invested more then 20 million dollars in the developing of methodic materials for distance educational programms. In the Jule 2000 year Cisco Systems, Inc. invested 3,5 millon dollars to the education programs for preparation of countries with underdeveloped economic to activities in the Internet-community.

Besides traditional training-centers with narrowly particularized, one week or two weeks courses, Cisco Systems Corporation, Inc. creates and develops Cisco Systems Networking Academies. Academies is created in universities in order to extend classical education courses on the computer engineering and telecommunication on the basic of studying technologies, equipments, software end designing decision of Cisco Systems Corporation, Inc., and develop lasting professional knowledge of the students. Curriculum of Cisco network academy - Cisco Networking Academy Program (CNAP) - can be used for increase the level of specialist's skills or for train a new one with to complete higher education also, in case of desire for finding a work in the network or system sector in Ukraine or foreign countries.

The popularity of Cisco Network Academy is impressive. The number of academies in developing countries are continuously increase.

At the state on 9 february of 2003 year. according to information of Cisco Systems, Inc. 10371 academies with 437687 students are working in the 149 countries of the world, including 10226 local one's, 1220 regional one's, 85 Cisco Academy Training Centers - CATCs (for traning of academy instructors ). From July, 2000 year quantity of academies has raised to 3,9 times, while quantity of countries where Cisco networking academies working has raised  - to 1,8 times.

CNAP program consists of traning courses and independent Certification in the VUE test centers for following qualification levels

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) - certified specialist in computer networks

• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) - certified professional in computer network .

Every traning course is estimated on 280 hours (4 semesters of 70 hours). Methodical materials is distributed in the electronic form through Internet in English. Previous version of CCNA course is distributed in Spanish, German, Portuguese and apanese. Academy instructors which was sertified in the CATCs conducts a lesson on the native language of students. All intermediate, semester and final exzaminations is carried out in English.

Briefly, traning program consists of: