The program is designed around a series of ten 3D animated movies that are woven into a content-rich interactive environment. The movies take you into a virtual world where basic networking concepts and architectures are dramatically illustrated. Local Area Networks (LANs), Client-Server networks, Ethernet networks, Peer-to-Peer networks, Wide Area Networks (WANs), Metropolitan Area networks (MANs), The Internet, Networking Overview, a LAN case study, and the Desktop of the Future.

In these movies you'll see how data moves between desktops and offices - through walls and floors, into server rooms, out buildings, down streets, and onto global fiber-optic networks. Along the way, you'll explore how information gets from one location to another, and what it takes to move it.

Then explore an elaborate interactive environment that seamlessly integrates CD-based content with online, context-sensitive information served up from the Kit's web site.

Drill down through server rooms, office desktops and computer cutaways for more detail about different topics. Or go online to the Kit's web site for additional content specifically related to the CD topic you came from, such as system and component design and functionality, vendor information and product details.

The Kit's online environment also includes a suite of valuable networking resources. These include research tools, a tariff engine for analyzing carrier costs of a wide area network, a virtual campus for continuing education at the desktop, an electronic library, and a software try-out area. The virtual campus offers access to a library of almost 200 technical and business development courses offered in a self-paced format.

There has never been a better or easier way to understand the complex world of network technology and its applications.