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Cisco CCNP - BSCI Tutorial: To Pass the BSCI exam And Earn Your CCNP Certification,

2011-07-07T22:06:00.000-07:00

To pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP certification, you've got to master the (many) details of OSPF. You might have thought there were quite a few OSPF details in your CCNA studies, but you'll now build on that foundation on the way to earning your CCNP.

One such detail is the role of the Autonomous System Border Router (ASBR) in OSPF. The name itself raises some eyebrows, since you learned in your CCNA studies that OSPF doesn't use autonomous systems! Just as an OSPF Area Border Router borders multiple OSPF areas, the ASBR borders the entire OSPF domain and another source of routes. This can be another dynamic routing protocol, or directly connected networks that are not being advertised into OSPF by the network command.

Let's say we have a router running both OSPF and RIP version 2. By default, the RIP process will not contain any OSPF-discovered routes, and vice versa. The two separate routing processes are just that - separate. If we want the other OSPF routers to know about the RIP routes, route redistribution must be configured. When the RIP routes are redistributed into OSPF, that router is then an ASBR.

In the below example, RIP subnets have been redistributed into OSPF. A seed metric is not necessary when redistributing routes into OSPF. The command "show ip ospf" confirms that this router is now an ASBR.

R1(config)#router ospf 1

R1(config-router)#redistribute rip subnets

R1#show ip ospf

Routing Process "ospf 1" with ID 1.1.1.1

Supports only single TOS(TOS0) routes

Supports opaque LSA

It is an autonomous system boundary router

The ASBR can also perform route summarization on the routes being injected into OSPF with the summary-address command. (To configure OSPF inter-area summarization, use the area range command.) By mastering route summarization and route redistribution, you're well on your way to passing the BSCI exam and earning your CCNP certification!

Google launched ‘Google TV’

2010-12-12T18:51:00.000-08:00

Google recently launched a website on Monday, Google .com/ TV , that many the TV set and the Internet. Google said that Amazon, the NBA, Netflix, The New York Times, NBC Universal, USA Today and offers will provide content and applications for the upcoming “Google TV”.

White Hause Names New Cyber Coordinator

2010-01-03T21:24:00.000-08:00

President Barack Obama has chosen Howard Schmidt as the new cyber security coordinator to take on the task of organizing and managing the United State’s vulnerable digital networks.

Howard Schmidt was a long time computer executive, who has worked under the Bush administration and has extensive connections to the corporate world, according to reports. The selection of Schmidt comes after 10 months when Pres. Obama announced cyber security a priority. The President has chosen Schmidt because of his unique background and skills. The new cyber coordinator will deal with one of the “most serious economic and rational security challenges we face as a nation.”

Microsoft Unveils Bing Search Engine

2009-07-07T02:37:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Corporation’s brand new search engine Bing, codenamed kumo in it’s early development stage, has started to roll out last June 3 to deliver “new search experience” to it’s users and address what it’s describes as the “unmet needs” of other search engine users.

Microsoft executives believe that Bing, organizes information in a more logical fashion: “Instead of splitting them out (search results) in order of popularity, we break them into logical categories. We bring the best match to the top, pull out results buried on the site, highlight information, highlight instant answers and show related searches right on the result page, “ they said.

Bing claims to provide credibility as well, especially when users search for areas in health and or diseases. Being claims to pull in information first from the top medical sources in the world. Microsoft hopes for its new search engine to be eventually accepted as a verb following the Google example.

New Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1

2008-12-26T01:23:00.000-08:00

The Xperia is one of the newest cell phones from Sony Ericsson. For starters, Xperia XI is a 3G HS-DPA Smartphone, which runs on Windows Mobile 6.1. Xperia XI has a unique interface of customizable panel called X-Panel. The SE Panel can be personalized to fit you at work. You can use it to calendar your meetings, read e-mails, and even customize RSS feeds.

Apart from that, Xperia XI sport the world's first arc-slider design. Slide it open and it brings out a QWERTY keyboard. Touch, full QWERTY keyboard, with slightly raised separate keys a millimeter apart. The best part is that switching is seamless.

Experience the Xperia-it makes owning a cell phone really cool.

T-Mobile GI: First Mobile Phone From Google

2008-10-19T03:29:00.000-07:00

Search-engine giant Google launched the T-Mobile GI phone, the mobile phone with telecom carrier T-Mobile.

The T-Mobile GI’s operating system is designed by Google and powered by it’s open-source Android software. It is thicker but narrower than Apple iPhone. Like the hot selling iPhone, it has high-speed Internet browsing, touched sreen, Wi-Fi, e-mail, instant massaging and SMS texting. It has also GPS ( Global Position System), with a 3.0- megapixel camera and with photo-out QWERTY keyboard, a feature not found in iPhone.

Samsung Omnia (SGH i900)

2008-08-19T22:32:00.000-07:00

Apple iPhone makers produced the full-touch user interface (UI) with hardly any hardware buttons for input, exept for the thumbable screen another challenger comes along. The contender is the recently released Samsung Omnia (SGH i900), a full-touch UI mobile phone running on Windowa Mobile 6.1.

Apart from the full-touch capability, Samsung’s Omnia has a lot of the other things : Omnia’s haptic features which enables user to feel clicks, vibrations, and other tactile input when they drop and drug objects on the screen. Omnia offers 15 widgets on drop and drag icons that represent the most used functions: clock, calendar, notes, games, FM radio, photo gallery, contacts, camera, Internet, Wi-Fi, etc. Then, there’s the 5-migapixel camera- the highest in a touch UI phone. It contains features such as the multi codec support for DivX, Xvid, and other video formats. Weighing 127 grams, it is relatively thin at only 12.5 mm. It is encased with a black platinum metallic finish body with a black rubbery feel back. It runs on 624 MHz Marvel.

Sprint Nextel With Touch Screen Phone

2008-08-12T19:45:00.000-07:00

Sprint Nextel Corp. is betting heavily on the Samsung Instinct, which, like the Apples’ iPhone, functions are accessed by touching the screen.

Like the iPhone, the Instinct Lacks a keypad and has just a few buttons as most of the functions are accessed by touching the screen.

Other features of Instinct the iPhone Lack: It will be the first consumer phone is the US to use EV-DO Rev. A, the fastest cellular broadband technology available on the Sprint and Verizon Wireless networks. Instinct also contains a Global Positioning System chip, for location applications. The iPhone use cellular and Wi-Fi signals to determine as approximate position. The screen measures 7.8 centimeters diagonally, compared to the iphone’s nine centimeters. The software is based on Java, a programming language that make it easy to develop applications for the phone.

The Arte Phones From Nokia

2008-08-11T00:13:00.000-07:00

Nokia 8800 Arte and Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte are both mobile gems made of the finest quality. The coffee-brown colored Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte is made of high-grade metal and scratch-resistant glass, with passels crafted from premium lather source in eastern India. It’s crowning glory is the sapphire, a gemstone for its navigational button.

The Nokia 8800 Arte features an anti-fingerprint black body as well as a unique top-for-time feature shared with it’s bejeweled twin. It takes only two gentle taps to illuminate the clock screen, while living wallpapers more organically giving unique onscreen decoration.

Both the Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte and Nokia 8800 Arte include an exclusive soundtrack of graphics groves from master producers Rruder & Dorfmiester with visuals by Fritz Fitzke

Nokia 6210 : 1st GPS- Enabled Cellphone

2008-07-24T22:56:00.000-07:00

Nokia 6210 Navigator with maps 2.0 application is Nokia's first GPS-enabled cellphone with and intergrated compass for padestian guidance. Never miss a route or a street as Nokia 6210 supports assisted GPS. With the pre-installed one-touch navigation, full voice guidance and self-mount can kit, if the user make a wrong turn, the devise will automatically calculate a new route.

Nokia has also designed free software that let's you create your own logo and ringtones. If you have the talent for writing music, intuitive Composer software, designed like a music sheet, which allowed you to write music directly unto the bars. Manipulation of the notes is easy as thenavigation bar shows notes of different count upfront. Encased in a slimmer frame than the earlier 6000 series models, the Nokia 6210 Navigatior is both durable and stylish.

Asus Eee PC 900

2008-07-22T22:55:00.000-07:00

Why the new Eee PC 900 is cool : Sleek, stylish, and above all functional. Mobility is another major factor attributed to the Eee PC's success. This is due to the built-in Solid State Disk (SSD) technology which offers a quiet, energy saving and shock proof design for the stable computing.

Other features : The new Eee PC 900 has 8.9" display screen and weighs below 1kg making it light and portable for childrens and women to carry around. It also incorporate an inovative FingerGlide feature that makes operating easy and convinient. For example, with just two simple finger movement on the touchpad, users will be able to zoom in and out of pictures, or scroll up and down for easier document viewing, making Eee PC 900 more convinient to use

New iPhone 3G Rolls Out In The Market

2008-07-11T22:35:00.000-07:00

Apple is rolling out the new iPhone in more than 20 countries, including New Zealand, Japan and Hong kong after it's launch in late June 2007.

Apple says the new iPhone has faster Web links than the old version and supports third-party software like games. Price and distribution were two key reasons the new smart phone, which plays music and supports corporate e-mails , would outsell its predecessors, , expects some analysts of a new iPhone.

J132, New Candy-Bar Phone

2008-06-29T23:10:00.000-07:00

Sony Ericsson's new entry-level phones includes J132 a talk-and-text phone with FM radio and stereo hands-free kit.

J132 is designed with simplicity and value for money in mind. The solid feel and dust-resistant phones which offers radio listening via spaekerphone or stereo headset. It has a clear and bright srcreen coupled with it's one-click shortcuts and easy to use navigation key means that you are ready to text and search. It has up to nine hours of talk time and 450 hours of standby time.

Mobile Phone OT-V770 : Latest Model from Alcatel

2008-04-02T20:53:00.000-07:00

This year 2008, Alcatel mobile phones introduces OT-V770 in the market. Only 10 mm thick, OT-V770 Lava phone has a large landcape color display and possesses a convenient webcam function or well. Just plug the handset into your laptop, sign on your messaging program, and you can stial chatting with your loved ones.

This unique slim phone is available in two colors: glossy white and soft-touch black.

In addition, the OT-V770 comes with a Bluetooth stereo, full music player, and a 1.3-megapixel camera for those who love capturing beautiful moments.

New MP3 Player From Samsung

2007-12-14T02:10:00.000-08:00

Three new MP3 players from Samsung Electronics with cutting-edge features, were unveiled recently in it's latest launching of new products together with new TV products such as there full HD LCD TV, the Samsung F8.

Samsung's MP3 players offer consumers unsurpassed levels of sound quality, enhanced design, and user friendly features.The three new multimedia devices are:the Samsung YP-P2, YP-S5, And YP-T10, featuring high-performance video with large screens and improved resolution.The navigation of the players has vastly improved. Icons and graphic images guide the user thruogh the functions. User can choose their favorite photos or images as a background of the menu. Since the players are Bluetooth enabled, all three MP3 players offer great connectivity options to stereo headsets and portable speakers.Bluetooth enables simple files transfers,and even connect to your mobile phone.

Sony Ericsson W910i : A Phone to Beat this Holiday Season

2007-12-13T23:45:00.001-08:00

Sony Ericsson W910i, is a lean, mean multitasking phone, equipped with all the tools needed for listening to the music, playing video games and surfing the internet.

The latest in Sony Ericsson's Walkman phone line, the W910i can withstand the most abusive cell-phone users such as those who frequently drop their units to the floor or who talk to their cell until the wee hours of the morning, wearing out the keypads with overtime texting.What makes this phone unique from the others is it Shake Control feature, which allows users to change tracks by simply shaking the cell phone..Skip one song forward by thicking the phone to the right, or shaking it to the left to take a step backward. Do you like to shuffle your playlist.Shake your phone bach and tooth for a crazy take on a mixed playlist.

Another new feature is SensMe,which allowsyou for reaching your music collect and creating playlist based on tempo and style. By grouping together the songs that have similar dot matrix paterns , the W910i selects songs that way jibe with yours mood for the kind of music you want to play.

That makes the multitasking W910i the must murt-have phone to beat this Christmas season.