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

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’

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

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

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

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

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)

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.