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Cisco, NIIT join hands

NEW DELHI: Cisco, global leader in networking and infrastructure management, and NIIT, leading global talent development corporation, have agreed to develop and enhance the IT infrastructure management talent pool in the Asia Pacific region.

According to the agreement, NIIT will offer training programmes on Cisco’s latest tools and technologies in the networking and infrastructure management space across NIIT’s select IT education centres in the Asia Pacific region. NIIT will provide training on Cisco’s authorised curriculum and enable Cisco certification for students aspiring to build careers as networking professionals and system engineers. The partnership is in line with Cisco’s aim to expand India’s networking workforce capacity to 3.60 lakh engineers in the next five years, a six-fold increase over the present employment levels. Element K, the U.S.-based learning solutions company, and an integral part of NIIT’s training network now, has been a Cisco Certified Learning Solutions Partner (CLSP) for North America. Leo Scrivner, Vice-President-HR, Cisco Services & Globalisation Centre East, said, “Globalisation will continue to transform India’s economy and will require its young workforce to develop skills that are market-driven. Significant talent shortage in the infrastructure management space has opened up multiple career options for aspiring students and professionals”, says G. Raghavan, President-Individual Learning Solutions, NIIT.

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