ISBN:1587201313Book Description
Master hands-on CCNA skills with a network simulator that lets you build your own network, with up to 200 devices
- Gain hands-on experience for all CCNA exam topics
- Select from 45 different router and switch models
- Learn with integrated content from the number-One selling CCNA Certification Library written by Wendell Odom
Cisco CCNA Network Simulator is a boxed software product derived from the previously self-published Boson NetSim from Boson Software. It provides users with a means to develop hands-on skills at the CCNA level without the investment in expensive hardware. The software, which includes the Boson Router Simulator, was designed to give users the skills needed to pass the new CCNA 800 series exams (640-801, 640-811, and 640-821). The combination of Cisco IOS and Catalyst simulated command line interface (CLI) establishes a foundation of knowledge that is integral to CCNA success, both in taking the CCNA exams and in one's daily job as a CCNA professional. The title includes a drag-and-drop Network Designer that supports up to 200 devices using 45 different device models, including 40 different router models and 2 Catalyst switch models. Users can have up to 200 active Telnet sessions configuring devices inside the simulator. This unique feature allows users to create their own lab topologies, freeing them for the first time from the configurations locked in place by the software vendor. Currently no other network simulation package offers this much versatility and support.
Cisco CCNA Network Simulator also includes a comprehensive lab menu that contains more than 100 structured labs for users to run. More than 20 advanced-level labs from Wendell Odom's CCNA texts allow users to perform complex tasks on networks that combine all the various CCNA technologies.
Boson Software, Inc. is a software company specializing in products for test preparation and the development of hands-on skills. Boson is a Cisco Learning Partner, and offers practice tests on every major certification in the IT industry, as well many outside the IT market. Boson Software is headquartered in Tampa, FL.
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/p>Reviews From AMAZON.COM
Poor Implementation of ACL's
I sent the company some feedback last week and have heard nothing from them. Product does not apply ACL's properly to interfaces and has problems recording matches to outbound ACL's. Also there are problems with alternate vlans on 2950 switches. Numerous bugs running verion 5.07 with latest patch. Was a very disappointing purchase.
Dennis Byford, CCNP
What the h@@!!?? Boson wrote all the reviews below here..
it is obvious that Amazon stopped checking who writes the reviews for the products.
The Boson cr!@P that comes with this book is the worst software I have ever seen.
Obviously, each Boson employee wrote a review for their own product as there is no one I have met, (and I go to a large Cisco Academy in San Jose, Ca,) thinks this is worth $0.02, let along the ENOURMOUS price they are charging for this!!
OK, besides the terrible software, let's get to the error prone book and extrememly boring material that is "included" in this kit meant to just rip people off because of the name "cisco".
I am not alone in my thoughts here, as I mentioned. The Cisco users group here in San Jose, as well as the Cisco Academy, each with hundreds of memebers use the Todd Lammle Sybex book and the RouterSim software.
I have returned ALL of my cisco press junk to Amazon asap. It was SUCH a hassle. Do not get caught up in this fake marketing of this terrible product.
At least I have some respect for the writer of the book, but not much, and I have absoultely NO resepect for the Boson products and people...