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1). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Tutorial: Home Lab Assembly Case Study By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Part of your CCNA / CCNP education is deciding what network topology to use when you're putting together your home lab. Some of you are starting with one or two routers or switches, while others are starting with more. A customer recently sent me a list of his Cisco routers and switches that he has available for a home lab and asked for my help in coming up with the best way to use them.
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2). Know The Advantages And Disadvantages Before Buying A Business By : David Gass
Gives the advantages and disadvantage of buying a pre-existing business rather than starting your own.
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3). Backup Data to Tape Drive, Network Attached or a Virtual Tape Library? By : Christine Harrell
When it comes to setting up a system for multiple computers operating on a network, backing up your data to a tape drive, network attached storage (NAS) or a Virtual Tape Library are some of the solutions the end user should consider!
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4). How To Build A Successful Network Marketing Business Through The Internet By : David Gass
Explains how to build a network marketing business using the internet.
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5). A plus C Systems and Affirmative Insight, Inc. announced an exclusive partnership. By : Bartosz Lewandowicz
Affirmative Insight Inc. provides information technology solutions in the areas of IT security, networking, service and support, e-business, web design, web hosting and software development. By partnering with A plus C Systems, Affirmative Insight, Inc. expands its offer with a comprehensive suite of software products – Uplook, Statlook and Anasil – tool kit for IT asset management and network monitoring.
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6). Ethernet - explained By : john
Do you use Ethernet? You might think that you don’t, but don’t be so sure. Ethernet is everywhere – if you use a networked computer, whether it’s at home or in your office, you’re using Ethernet. Ethernet is two things: a kind of cable for connecting computers together, and the method of communication that the computers use over the cables. Essentially, it is the glue that holds LANs (local area networks) together.
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7). 10 Benefits Of Bluetooth By : David Hill
Are you ready to find the solutions you have been searching for? Here, listed,, are 10 advantages and reasons to use Bluetooth technology. 1. wireless. As you are probably already aware, there are many benefits and bonuses to using wireless devices. Along with improving safety as a consequence of eliminating wires once a necessity, wireless also offers you plenty of alternate advantages.
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8). Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: EIGRP Stub Routing By : Chris Bryant
EIGRP stub routing is important for your BSCI exam success, and it can also cut down on unnecessary traffic in your production network. Learn the fundamentals from Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933.
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9). TerraSip mobile VoIP community lowers the price for Starphone before the CEBIT By : Susi
Calls to all destinations worldwide for free via internet – without computer While the flagship of the TerraSip VoIP product palette, the Starphone, previously went over the virtual store counter for 89 Euro, it is now available for a thrifty 59 Euro, beginning immediately. With this, TerraSip is reacting to an increased demand. "The Starphone is so interesting because it offers a diversity of functions like no other comparable product on the market and provides comfortable internet telephony without requiring a computer or software.
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10). Seven tips for securing your organization´s network from spam and email viruses By : Todd Green
Seven tips for securing your organization´s network from spam and email viruses Providing security against email related threats has become a burden for most IT professionals in 2006. According to a recent study by Postini, spam and email viruses now make up to 80% of all emails sent out as compared to 50% in 2000. As a result, IT professionals now face a tougher challenge in providing network security for this amount of spam.
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11). Five Stumbling Blocks To Successful Networking And How To Overcome Them By : Lydia Ramsey
The ability to connect with people is essential to success in any business. Professional networking events present opportunities to interact with others on a personal level and to develop profitable relationships. These occasions are critical for anyone who wants to grow a business or promote a career. Many people are simply not comfortable walking into a room full of strangers and striking up conversations.
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12). Understanding the Migration to Exchange Server 2003 From Exchange 5.5 By : Tati
It is a good time to move to Exchange 2003. With the end of Microsoft’s support of this release within 2003 they have to decide to move to a new release of Exchange Server. In this article I will talk about detailed overview on how to migrate an Exchange 5.5 directory to a new Windows Server 2003 supported Exchange Server 2003 environment. The main issue with the migration from Exchange Server 5.
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13). The Benefits Of Home Based Business Network Marketing By : Obinna Heche
A lot of people would shy away when we start talking about home based business in network marketing for the simple reason that they dont want to sell goods and services. If you take a closer look into network marketing, you will find out that it does not necessarily mean peddling or offering goods and services to your friends or family members.
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14). Creating a Wireless Desktop By : Stephen Orgill
We live in an age of technology and as such we are always looking for ways to make life easier or ways to make things look better. In the home or office (or even the home office) making things look better involves getting rid of clutter. This is where the wireless desktop comes into play. No wires means less clutter and because when using Bluetooth wireless devices line of sight is not needed, you can use your desk space to its optimum with no worries.
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15). Marketing Your Work At Home Business Idea By : Obinna Heche
You have a great home business idea and you have decided to jump in with both feet. You have already set up your computer, signed up with a reseller or the company who will provide you some leads and you have even come up with an innovative plan to get the kids and the rest of the family involved.
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16). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Lab: Frame Relay Subinterfaces And Split Horizon By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Earning your Cisco CCNA and CCNP is a tough proposition, and part of that is the fact that you quickly learn that there’s usually more than one way to do things with Cisco routers – and while that’s generally a good thing, you better know the ins and outs of all options when it comes to test day and working on production networks. Working with Frame Relay subinterfaces and split horizon is just one such situation.
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17). Cisco CCNA Certification: Cisco Switching Modes Tutorial By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
To pass the CCNA exam and earn that coveted certification, you've got to know Cisco switches inside and out. Among the many important details you've got to know are the three methods that Cisco switches use to forward frames, and the differences between the three. The first switching method is Store-and-Forward. The name is the recipe, because that's just what the switch does - it stores the entire frame before beginning to forward it.
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18). Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: Ethernet CSMA/CD Explained By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
When you're studying for the Network+ exam, you've got a lot of new acronyms to learn! One of the basics is CSMA/CD, which stands for Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection. That's quite a mouthful, but it's an important term to know for both your exam and real-world success. On an Ethernet segment, hosts can send data at any time. As you might guess, that's a bit of a problem in itself, because if multiple hosts send data at the same time, a collision will occur and the data will become unusable.
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19). How To Use Network Marketing Tools And Resources By : David Gass
Explains how to best use the tools and resources available for network marketers.
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20). Finding Networking Opportunities Is Easy By : Leni Chauvin
Copyright 2006 Leni Chauvin Business networking is all about forming strong relationships built on mutual respect and trust. Those relationships are the basis for the single most important tool that we all need if we want to survive in the competitive 21st century. I'm talking about referrals. And today's savvy business professionals know that--just as night follows day--networking leads to referral business.
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21). Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: ARP and Proxy ARP Explained By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
In yesterday's Network+ tutorial, we talked about the importance of Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) in today's networks. A host PC must have the MAC and IP addresses of a remote host in order to send data to that remote host, and it's ARP that allows the local host to request the remost host to send the local host its MAC address through an ARP Request.
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22). Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Dynamic VLANs and VMPS By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Knowledge of Dynamic VLANs and VMPS is important in your efforts to pass the BCMSN exam and earn your CCNP, and it's also a great skill to have for your networking career. As a CCNA and CCNP candidate, you know how and why to configure static VLANs. Static VLANs can be a powerful tool for reducing unnecessary broadcast and multicast traffic, but if hosts are moved from one switch port to another, you've got to make those changes manually on the switch.
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23). CCNA / Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: Collision Domains And Switches By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
In the previous Network+ exam tutorial, we talked about how collisions occur when data sent by two hosts on a shared Ethernet segment transmit data at the exact same time. Collisions result in the colliding data being unusable, which means the hosts must retransmit the data - and all this extra activity slows the network down! Carrier Sense Multiple.
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24). Group SetUp For Social Networking By : Rolf Ken
Business Profile or Personal Network there is always a need for a group of like minded people to get together and discuss the problems.
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25). An Easy Way to Build a Home Network By : jdresse
If you have more than one computer at home, you are probably better off connecting them or networking them together to use the same resources and receive the same internet connection. A home network is very easy to build. Here are some tips. There are two main types of home networks, wired and wireless. While wired home networks are popular, but they require you to run wires from one computer to another.
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