NetSim will help you with the practical, hands-on portion of your education to ensure that you not only understand the concepts of routing but can actually configure and implement routing on Cisco devices.
NetSim Product Comparison
A Closer Look at NetSim
Clean composition and navigation
- Intuitive tools, large icons and clear fonts
- Layout is suited for widescreen aspect ratios
- Organized components to optimize screen space
Customizable Interface
Rearranging and organizing your NetSim experience is easy with our Window Docking feature. The dockable user interface allows you to rearrange and organize your display the way you want. The entire application is customizable.
You can undock anything and everything. Want to move the lab tree to the right or auto hide it? That’s easy—each tool window ("pane") may be closed, auto hidden or undocked. Plus, each console window can be dragged out of the application and relocated across multiple computer monitors.
Network Designer™
The Network Designer menu enables you to create a new topology and modify existing ones. You can add devices and connections to the topology, and you can also click and drag the devices to rearrange your simulated network.
In NetSim, the Network Designer is intuitive and robust.
With NetSim you can:
- annotate topologies with notes and labels.
- align elements exactly with drag snapping.
- connect in fewer clicks with new tool types focused on specific activities.
- configure Frame Relay easier with a new simple port-to-DLCI mapping interface.
- locate active connections and devices easier with two new support panes.
NetSim Community Sharing
NetSim Community is a feature that allows you to easily share your own labs, lab packs and topologies directly in the application. Once your creations are approved, they will be available in the NetSim Community for other NetSim users to download.
You can also search, sort or filter the NetSim Community to look for shared content that you find helpful.
Lab History
Lab History allows you to easily identify where you left off or labs that you may want to revisit. Progress icons show the status of the labs that you’ve started, completed successfully or failed.
The Lab Tree will indicate the “best” result, and the history section in Lab Preview will display your complete history.
Lab Preview
The Lab Preview window displays the description, topology diagram, complete Lab History, command summary and IP reference (if applicable). You can access a Lab’s Preview Window by single-clicking an item in the lab tree.
Activation
Activation is simple. When you launch NetSim, you will be prompted to enter the email address and password associated with your Boson account*. NetSim will automatically unlock the products associated with your account, eliminating the need for traditional "activation" or keeping up with activation keys.
Internet connection is required.
*Your free Boson account is typically set up when purchasing a NetSim product or downloading a demo.
Lab Documents
Lab documents are formatted to minimize download size.
Cloud Synchronization
When using NetSim on multiple devices, you can enable cloud synchronization. When cloud synchronization is enabled, NetSim will automatically sync the “Boson NetSim Labs” folder from anywhere you log in. This feature is disabled by default but is available to all users.