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[LynK]

Guys,

I am looking to use some cisco training credits to get my CCNP course, to finally finish that up. But I want to go through a vendor that you have had success with. Preferably digital, and here is the cisco URL.

http://learninglocator.cloudapps.cisco.com/GlobalLearningLocator/LLocatorHome.do

[mmcgurty]

Global Knowledge and FireFly are two we have used before with Cisco Learning Credits.

[LynK]

We have used global knowledge, but their UI is terrible (and java based). How is firefly?

[mmcgurty]

It been at least 3 years since I've used Firefly virtually.  I've used Global Knowledge in the last year or so.  I remember Firefly being kind of clunky.  I also think you had to dial in whereas Global Knowledge offered an audio stream.  This was big for me because I had to either use my home phone (no headset), my cell phone (battery time/plan time), or login to our VPN and use Jabber which also made me available for IM'ing.  Honestly, it probably isn't a fair assessment of Firefly since the online/streaming tech wasn't as full-featured three years ago.  I do recall having issues with the labs only being available for a specific time each day.  I think they reset for other time-zones each day.

I don't recall Global Knowledge using any Java when I used them but it has been about a year since I last took a class.  I think it was more like a WebEx and then we have a remote desktop we attached to with specific usernames/passwords for each "pod".  Global Knowledge also made portions of the labs for one of my classes available for about 30 days after the class.  I believe this was for the CCNP Routing class (prior just to 3.0 change).  I felt this was a value add that I hadn't had available before.

Here are a few we saw at Cisco Live 2016 that might be of interest as well.  I haven't used either of them, but they just had booths at Cisco Live 2016 so I can't vouch for them.

Current Technologies CLC
www.ctclc.com

Nterone
www.nterone.com