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This is part of my BSc Hons Web Media Technology Degree - so I just pay University tuition fees.
"Cisco" today is the biggest networking company sponsoring these courses in the UK and maybe America. - I should point out the course is not about Cisco products - its everything about networking from making a crossover cable to what is TCP/IP.
Novel maybe have same kind of courses - but Cisco is the one taking off in the UK and soon will be in every college, university and some secondary schools
www.staffs.ac.uk/cisco
P.S. you won't be able to login to this stuff unless your enrolled online and from a "cisco centre"
Even the online exams we take are only online for 8 hours at a time