Empowering IT Professionals Since 2015
We started with one mission: make high-quality IT certification training accessible to everyone, without the premium price tag.
Our Story
CISNET was founded in Mississauga, Ontario in 2015 by Mani Poopal, a CCIE-certified network engineer with more than two decades of enterprise networking experience, including years as a senior network architect. Teaching CCNA candidates on evenings and weekends, he kept seeing the same gap: enterprise-grade certification training existed, but only at enterprise-grade prices, and the affordable alternatives were pre-recorded videos with nobody to answer a question.
CISNET was built around the opposite model: small live classes, taught in real time by instructors who hold the certifications they teach, with hands-on labs in every course. What started as a single CCNA classroom grew into a full catalogue: Cisco routing and switching, CompTIA, AWS, CISSP, and PMP, taught by a small team of practitioners rather than a roster of contract presenters.
Since 2015, we've trained over 6,400 students across Canada and the United States, with a 90%+ first-attempt pass rate. Class sizes stay capped so every student can ask questions, labs use the same tools you'll see on the job (Packet Tracer, GNS3, real AWS environments), and if you don't pass your exam, you can retake the course at no charge. The savings from keeping overhead low (no downtown campus, no sales team) go directly into pricing.
Who Teaches at CISNET
Every CISNET course is taught by an instructor who holds the certification, and works (or has worked) in the field it covers. Mani leads the Cisco networking track; the CompTIA, project management, and cloud/security tracks are each owned by a dedicated instructor with 12-18 years of industry experience. You can read each instructor's background, credentials, and courses on the instructors page.
Quality First
Every course is taught online live by certified professionals with real-world experience. No pre-recorded videos, no shortcuts.
Student Success
Our 90%+ first-attempt pass rate speaks for itself. We don't just teach the material, we make sure you master it.
Accessible Pricing
We keep overhead low so you can invest in your career, not in our office space. Same certifications, lower prices.
Milestones
About CISNET: Common Questions
CISNET is a Canadian IT certification training school, founded in Mississauga, Ontario in 2015 by Mani Poopal, a CCIE-certified network engineer. It teaches live, instructor-led online courses for eight certifications: CCNA, CCNP ENCOR, CCNP ENARSI, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, CompTIA A+, Security+, CISSP and PMP, to students across Canada and the United States.
Online. Every CISNET cohort runs live online, with an instructor teaching in real time and hands-on labs in every course, so students join from anywhere in Canada or the United States. There is no physical classroom to attend.
No. CISNET is an independent training provider. Every course is built around the vendor's published exam blueprint, but CISNET is not an official training partner of Cisco, CompTIA, AWS, ISC2 or PMI.
No. CISNET at cisnet.ca is a private IT certification training company in Mississauga, Ontario. The Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network is a separate US National Cancer Institute research consortium that shares the name.
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