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yuna_admirer
19-07-2003, 06:01
Vietnam Aims to Play a Big Part in Asia's Technology Future

Country with an agenda for software excellence is engaging with Cisco at every level

July 17, 2003

By Jason Deign, News@Cisco

With an area of 329,565 square kilometres and a population of 82 million, Vietnam is hardly a giant by Asian standards. But that has not stopped the country from aspiring to be the regional leader in technology development, aided in large part by Cisco Systems.

Vietnam, like Indonesia, the Philippines and others, is currently one of Asia's emerging technology players, lagging behind both "growth countries" such as Malaysia or India and developed markets such as Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong.

But it has already introduced a forward-thinking agenda for change, capitalising on the high growth rate of its population. Nearly half - 40 million - of the country's people are under 25 and both they and the government realise that education will be key to future prosperity.

As a result, says Bill Chang, Cisco regional managing director for South Asia, "people are hungry for knowledge - everybody is keen to upgrade themselves."

As a response, the Vietnamese government is seeking to emulate the success of its regional neighbour, India, in the field of software development and for the last year and a half, technology parks have been growing alongside the country's many manufacturing centres.

The government's aim of a software park in every city might seem a bit ambitious in a country with almost no residential telecommunications network and where a phone call can cost $2 a minute. Until, that is, you consider that the going rate for a network engineer is just $200 a month - and there is no shortage of young people eager and able to learn.

Cisco has for some time been playing a key role in Vietnam's plans to become an Asian software force. The company set up an office in Ha Nti, the capital and administrative centre, in 1999 and now has a second base in Ht Chi Minh, the country's more entrepreneurial second city.

In this time, Cisco has seen its business grow tremendously. It has helped promote technology development both in government and the enterprises, acting as a major supplier to the state-owned Vietnam Post & Telecommunications Corporation (VNPT) and its subsidiaries.

It has also played an important part in the establishment of technology-related intellectual capital in Vietnam.

Cisco operates Networking Academies - training courses that teach students to design, build and maintain computer networks - at both of its Vietnam offices and in February widened its knowledge transfer activities with the establishment of a Systems Engineer (SE) Club.

The SE Club, targeted at technical employees of Cisco-certified systems integrators, distributors, resellers and retailers, posted a spectacular success in May by producing three Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs).

The CCIE is one of the highest certifications in the networking industry - attained by only 9,500 specialists in the world after a two-hour written test and an eight-hour hands-on lab exam. One of the three engineers even managed the rare feat of passing on his first attempt.

The expert skills of Vietnam's CCIEs - and 1,000-plus students to have emerged so far from the country's Cisco Networking Academy Programme - are being put to good use as the deployment of the country's telecommunications infrastructure ramps up.

Here, the Ministry of Post & Telematics is leading by example with an ambitious plan to introduce e-government services along similar lines to those available in Singapore.

Part of this pursuit of technology excellence has been the staging of high-profile knowledge transfer events such as the Vietnam Information Technology and Communication Forum 2003. Cisco is a Gold Sponsor of this show.

Apart from government-backed moves to promote network deployment, Vietnamese businesses - and foreign companies located in the country - are major consumers of new infrastructure.

Vietnam is, for example, the fastest-growing wireless local area network market in South East Asia, with hotels and businesses increasingly keen to provide Internet access hotspots to customers and employees.

Other big growth areas include optical networks, network security and IP core, edge, virtual private network and multi-protocol label switching technologies.

"Going forward, there is tremendous excitement," says Chang. "Vietnamese companies do not have legacy infrastructures, so they can leapfrog straight to the latest technologies. They are not using copper, but going straight to fibre or optical networks."

Jason Deign is a freelance writer based in Barcelona, Spain

yuna_admirer
19-07-2003, 06:02
Update ngày 17/7, trên www.cisco.com

Necromancer
20-07-2003, 10:27
"Chị" yuna_admirer ơi, em xin lỗi hổng biết là chị hay anh nên em có dấu ngoặc kép, nhưng em mong là chị.

Em đọc bài của chị mà chỉ hiểu được ...chữ ký của chị thôi hà. Có phải trong bài này ông Jason Deign đánh giá cao về khả năng phát chiển mạng Xít Lô (í lộn cisco) ở VN mình phải hông chị? Bài viết hay quá mà sao chị hổng dịch sang tiếng Việt mình cho nhìu người cùng hiểu. À cái ông Jason này đánh giá tình hình chai cháng của mình cùng với tình chạng si dinh dưỡng dìa kỉ thuật hay thiệt đó nha. Nhưng mờ ổng có biết ở mình, muốn thực hành Cít-lô phải bỏ ra 20 nghìn đồng một giờ hông chị. Ổng có nghĩ rằng mình muốn có cái bằng CCIE đó phải bỏ ra mấy ngàn đô hông chị? Tất nhiên em biết là người viết có cái nhìn chủ quan của họ dồi. Nhìu khi họ đâu có qua VN mình đâu mờ bít tình hình thực tiễn, chị ha. Em ái mộ chị thiệt đó nha, chị chịu khó lên mạng để lấy thông tin dìa cung cấp cho tụi em. Nhưng em đề bạt (ủa lộn đề nghị) chị chịu khó dịch sang tiếng mình cho dễ hiểu hơn chị nhé. Chân thành cảm ơn chị

channhua
20-07-2003, 16:40
yune viết bài đọc tốn thùi gian wé

yuna_admirer
21-07-2003, 06:11
ặc ặc

Có lên mạng tìm thì do nhu cầu của Yuna tìm thôi, tiện share cho mọi người. Nhưng mà...:D hix, :( , Yuna hỏng phải "chị", buồn 5 s nhe.

Khách quan mà nói thì 6 tháng đầu năm nay, hạ tầng của chúng ta phát triển đáng kể đó. Các yếu tố đều được nếu khá rỏ trong bài viết. Đọc tiếng anh đi cho quen :D.
Người viết đã qua Việt Nam , hổi tháng 5 trong hội chợ triển lảm gì đó ở Hà Nội, cũng có đưa tin trên Cisco mà.