Course 1: Telecommunications Training for Non-Engineers - TONEX.com

Upon completion of this course the attendees will: 

• Understand the basics of telecoms
• Describe concepts behind PSTN and SS7
• Understand concepts behind triple and quad play
• Understand the basics of voice and data communications technologies
• Describe concepts behind VoIP, xDSL, IPTV,  MPLS, VPN, IMS/SIP, UMTS/HSPAHSPA+, WiMAX, LTE, and LTE Advance
• Understand the future telecoms trends

Introduction and Overview

• Telecoms Market
• Telecoms Regulation
• Telecoms Competition
• The Network 
• Evolution of Telecom
• Network Evolution
• Switching Evolution
• Access Evolution
• Mobile Evolution
• Cable Evolution
• Circuits vs. Packets
• Packet Evolution
• X.25, Frame Relay, ATM and IP
• Overview of NGN
• VoIP Overview
• IPTV
• SIGTRAN
• IMS and SIP
• MPLS and GMPLS
• VPN
• Wireless Mobile 2G, 3G and 4G Evolution
• LTE and EPC
• Flat IP Architecture

The Fundamentals

• Evolution of Current Telecoms Landscape
• Line and Trunks
• Plain Old telephony Service (POTS)
• The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
• PSTN Switching Hierarchy (Class 5, Class 4/Tandem, Class 3, 2 and 1)
• Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)
• Digital voice, video and data; DS0, DS1, DS3DWDM and Advance Optical Networking 
• Telecom Network Components
• The Telephone and the Local Loop
• Signaling in the Telephone System
• SS7 (Signaling System #7)
• Transmission Systems
• T1, T3 and SONET/SDH
• Optical Networking
• Next Generation Networks (NGN)
• Circuit-Switched vs. Packet-Switched Networks
• Packet-Switched Networks
• Voice over IP and Unified Communications
• Video Technology and Services
• Cloud Computing

Access and Transport Networks

• North American and International Digital Hierarchy (DS0, DS1/T1, DS3/T3, E1, E2)
• Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
• The International Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
• Overview of the CO, Local Loop, Home CPE, xDSL, DSLAM,  ATM, PPP and IP/MPLS
• HFC, FTTN, FTTC and FTTB
• ADSL/ADSL2+, VDSL/VDSL2

Customer premises equipment and services

• Customer Telephone System (CTS)
• Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
• Key Telephone System (KTS) overview
• Centrex: Analog and Digital
• Automatic Call Distributors (ACDs)
• Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
• Voice Mail
• Unified Communications
• IP PBX

Emerging Technologies

• Broadband Technologies
• Voice and data integration
• Cable
• xDSL
• Wireless
• TCP/IP
• NGN/VoIP
• IPTV
• MBMS
• MPLS and GMPLS
• MPLS VPN and TE
• IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)
• SIP Protocol
• SIGTRAN
• Fixed Wireless/SATCOM/VASTWiMAX
• Mobile Wireless/GSM/CDMA/CDMA2000/UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/LTE
• Mobile Broadband/1xEV-DO/UMTS/LTELTE Advance//Mobile WiMAX

  The Future

• The Future of Telecommunications
• Telecom Market Segmentation          
• Worldwide Subscribers
• Migration from circuit to packet switching
• IP Changes Everything
• Worldwide Revenue
• Wireline and Wireless Convergence
• Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Overview of SIGTRAN, MGCP/MEGACO, and SIP
• Overview o IPTV
• Overview of QoS
• Overview of MPLS and VPLS
• IMS and SIP
• LTE and LTE Advanced
• IPTV
• MPLS and MPLS VPNs
• VPLS
• Gigabit and Metro Ethernet
• Mobile IP
• IPv6