Through innovative partnerships with educational institutions across Europe, Middle-East and Africa, Cisco Systems is preparing students for the demands and enormous opportunities of the information economy while creating a qualified talent pool for building and maintaining networks. Network switches, Routers, Patch cables, punch-down blocks and RJ-45 jacks - not your ordinary list of education supplies. Then again, for students in a unique new curriculum known as the Cisco Networking Academy Program, this will be anything but your ordinary education experience .