Straight and Cross cable

Prior to starting the lab, the teacher or lab assistant should have a spool of Cat 5 or Cat 5e UTP cable, RJ-45 (8-pin) connectors, a RJ-45 crimping tool and an Ethernet / RJ-45 continuity tester available. Work individually or in teams. The following resources will be required:
• One 0.6 to .9 m (2 to 3 ft) length of Cat 5 cabling per person or team
• Four RJ-45 connectors, two are extra for spares
• RJ-45 crimping tools to attach the RJ-45 connectors to the cable ends
• Ethernet cabling continuity tester which can test crossover type cables, T568-A to T568-B
• Wire cutters
Step 1
Create a crossover cable using the following tables and diagrams. One end of the cable should be wired to the T568-A standard. The other end should be wired to the T568-B standard. This crosses the transmit pairs and the receive pairs, the second and third pair, to allow communication to take place.
Only four wires are used with 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX Ethernet.
Step 2
Determine the distance between devices, or device and plug, and then add at least 30.48 cm (12 in.) to it. Standard lengths for this cable are 1.83 m (6 ft) and 3.05 m (10 ft).
Step 3
Cut a piece of stranded UTP cable to the desired length. Use stranded cable for patch cables because it is more durable when bent repeatedly. Solid wire is fine for cable runs that are punched down into jacks.
Step 4
Strip 5.08 cm 9 (2in.) of jacket off one end of the cable.
Basically the straight cable connectons are same on both ends means
STRAIGHT
RJ45 end A RJ45 end B
Pin 1....................................................... Pin 1
Pin 2....................................................... Pin 2
Pin 3....................................................... Pin 3
Pin 4....................................................... Pin 4
Pin 5....................................................... Pin 5
Pin 6....................................................... Pin 6
Pin 7....................................................... Pin 7
Pin 8....................................................... Pin 8

If you want to connect PC to switch or hub you must use this straight cable.


CROSS
RJ45 end A RJ45 end B
Pin 1....................................................... Pin 3
Pin 2....................................................... Pin 6
Pin 3....................................................... Pin 1
Pin 4....................................................... Pin 4
Pin 5....................................................... Pin 5
Pin 6....................................................... Pin 2
Pin 7....................................................... Pin 7
Pin 8....................................................... Pin 8

If you want to connect same type of equipment or PC to PC you must use this crossover or cross cable.

Step 5
Hold the four pairs of twisted cables tightly where the jacket was cut away. Reorganize the cable pairs into the order of the 568-B wiring standard. Take care to maintain the twists since this provides noise cancellation.
Step 6
Hold the jacket and cable in one hand. Untwist a short length of the green and blue pairs, and reorder them to reflect the 568-B wiring color scheme. Untwist and order the rest of the wire pairs according to the color scheme.
Step 7
Flatten, straighten, and line up the wires. Trim them in a straight line to within 1.25 cm to 1.9 cm (1/2 to ¾ in.) from the edge of the jacket. Be sure not to let go of the jacket and the wires, which are now in order. Minimize the length of untwisted wires because sections that are too long and near connectors are a primary source of electrical noise.
Step 8
Place an RJ-45 plug on the end of the cable with the prong on the underside and the orange pair, green pair on the 586-A end, to the left side of the connector.
Step 9
Gently push the plug onto wires until the copper ends of the wires can be seen through the end of the plug. Make sure the end of the jacket is inside the plug and all wires are in the correct order. If the jacket is not inside the plug, the plug will not be properly gripped and will eventually cause problems. If everything is correct, crimp the plug hard enough to force the contacts through the insulation on the wires, thus completing the conducting path.
Step 10
Repeat steps 4-8 to terminate the other end of the cable using the 568-A scheme to finish the crossover cable.
Step 11
Test the finished cable. Have the instructor check it. How is it possible to tell if the cable is functioning properly?

SEM

Search Engine Marketing or SEM is a form of internet marketing which it allows the visibility of your websites to the page result pages of the search engine by means of five ways: paid placement, contextual advertising, digital asset optimization, paid inclusion, and the most popular, search engine optimization (SEO)
Search engine optimization is very powerful just for your website to be in the links to be viewed in search engine results page. Click this link for more information about SEO.
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SEO

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an internet strategy which makes your website on the top-ranking websites on search engine result page if you search a certain topic. It the way of improving the quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" or un-paid search results as opposed to search engine marketing (SEM) which deals with paid inclusion. Typically, the earlier (or higher) a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.

SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.
The primary way of SEO is what we call link build-up. It is the process of making the link or the URL of your website popular. You can directly make it famous by using social networking sites such as friendster.com, facebook.com, twitter.com, and etc. You can use the Url of you site with your comments to your friends to the said social networking sites.

The acronym "SEO" can refer to "search engine optimizers," a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site, SEO tactics may be incorporated into web site development and design. The term "search engine friendly" may be used to describe web site designs, menus, content management systems, images, videos, shopping carts, and other elements that have been optimized for the purpose of search engine exposure.

IP Version 4 versus IP Version 6

Ipv4 is the fourth version of Internet protocol, but the first one to be widely deployed. It uses a 32 bit addressing and allows for 4,294,967,296 unique addresses. Ipv4 has four different class types, the class types are A, B, C, and D. An example of Ipv4 is 207. 142. 131. 235. The ipv4 uses a subnet mask because of the large numbers of computers used today.

The subnet mask helps reduce the number of unique IP given to companies, corporations and so on. An example of a subnet mask is a company. A architectural company is given one ip address to use in their company. The IP that they are given is the class C addresses, 192. 182. 162. 0. However, the employees want to send information about the plan to a fellow employee. The default subnet mask is 255. 255. 255. 0 this default is used so that people can send instant messages to each other without downloading programs such as MSN messenger. The 0 in the subnet mask allows you to have 16 different networks having 14 computers per network allowing you to have a total of 224 computers in the company. You can create these networks by modifying the 0 the only number you can modify in the network. In the binary version of the 0 of the subnet mask it looks like this 0000. You can modify the numbers from 0000 – 1111. Those numbers will represent your network, you will then need numbers for your computer. When adding the numbers for the computer your IP would look like this in tens. 255.255.255.0-0 the zero after the dash represents your computer number. The way you can modify the number is the same as the network number, the difference is that you can only the numbers 0001-1110 in other words you cannot have all ones or all zeros. For further reference there is a diagram in the next page.

Ipv6 is the next in the advancement of IP’s. Although it is version 6 it will probably be the next widely deployed Internet protocol. Compared to the Ipv4 which allows for only 4,294,967,296 unique addresses, the Ipv6 that uses a 128-bit system will hold 340-undecillion (34, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000) this number is so vast that there are more unique ip addresses than stars in the universe, as we know it. However, the Ipv6 will not come out till at least 2025 in because they need time to fix the bugs in the protocol. An example of Ipv6 is:
207. 142. 131. 235. 207. 142. 131. 235. 207. 142. 131. 235. 207. 142. 131. 235.

The reason we may need to switch from Ipv4 to Ipv6 is because of the population of the world. The rate at which the world’s population is growing is nothing to look down at. Also in the future all vehicles will probably be networked in order to use Onstar or other navigational devices and those need IP’s too. So eventually we would need more unique IP’s than the number we have now.

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnetwork
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv4
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/working...l/aa043000b.htm

Intext Advertising

In-text advertising is a form of advertising which the word or the text within the website or WebPages are match to the advertisement from Kontera.

The text associated with an advertisement is identified by a double-underline to differentiate it from regular hyperlinks. An in-page bubble containing advertising content appears when the cursor is positioned over the corresponding text. When the mouse is moved away from the double-underline hyperlink, the bubble disappears. If the reader is interested in learning more about the product being offered, he can simply click on the ad bubble to go to the advertiser's site.

A simple click creates money.

ADSENSE

Adsence is online advertising program owned by Google. It brings advertisers from Microsoft and anyone who has websites with connection to Google. With this, not only the advertisers are the one who can earn money but also who has adsence in their websites. Of course you need a website to earn money from this adsence.

But not all of us has website, right? No need to worry. This isn’t as daunting as it sounds and you don’t need to be a qualified web designer either. Using online tools you can create a web site as easily as creating a word document or sending an email. All you need is a subject to write about. You can also create web through websites which offer free webhosting. You can also use blogs for the connection of the adsence. There are so many bloggers use adsence to earn money from the internet. Every view to their websites is count to convert into money. And every clich counts.

But the most important is you must have an Adsence account. Your websites must be registered to this. Your website should be popular in order to earn more money. The more websites with adsence you have the more money you can earn. But what if there are no visitors of your websites, you must learn how adsence optimization works. You can build the link of your site to make it popular.

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Certification Programs

We have 4 certification programs for customers who have each skills and knowledge.

Microsoft Certified Professional

The Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) credential is for expert IT professionals who have the skills to successfully implement a Microsoft product or technology as part of a business solution in an organization.
MCP program is worldwide based program and is provided in over 200 countries and areas. It started from 1993 in Japan and as of today now we have over 130 thousands MCP in Japan.

Microsoft Certified Associate Program

The Microsoft Certified Associate (MCA) credential is for IT professionals who have the skills to successfully implement a common Microsoft product or technology as part of a business solution in an organization. MCA program is Japanese local program and provides 4 kinds of credentials, MCA Platform (OS Network), MCA Database (Database design), MCA Application (.NET Application design) and MCA Security. It started from 2001 and as of today we have over 15 thousands MCA in Japan. (As of June, 2005)

Microsoft Sales Specialist

Exams are no longer available for the Microsoft Sales Specialist (MSS) certification after November, 2004.

Microsoft Official Trainer

The Microsoft Official trainer (MOT) credential holders play an important role in Microsoft Office Products training and certification process. They are regarded as Microsoft office product and course experts who have the instructional skills and technical qualifications to deliver quality training to Information Workers who use Office. MOT program is Japanese local program and provides each latest 2 versions’ Office Products as Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Excel 2003 and so on. It started from 1991 and as of today we have over 11 thousands MOT in Japan.

Microsoft Office Specialist

Microsoft Office Specialist (Office Specialist) certification, the premier Microsoft desktop certification, is a globally recognized standard for demonstrating desktop skills. The Office Specialist program is helping meet the demand for qualified and knowledgeable people in the modern workplace. Office Specialist MCP program is worldwide based program and started from 1997 in Japan. As of today now we have over 600 thousands Office Specialist in Japan.
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