This course provides an introduction to the landscape and fundamental technologies of the telecommunications marketplace. Designed with the non-technical professional in mind, this course provides day-to-day examples of the intricacies and competitive landscape of the industry.
Most importantly, telecom fundamentals for non-engineers provides crucial insights into fast-changing and dynamic competitive landscape, regulations and impact of new technologies.
Course Outline
Introduction and Overview
Structure
Regulation
Competition
The Network
The Fundamentals
Evolution of Current Telecom Landscape
Telecom Act of 1996
Standards
Plain Old telephony Service (POTS)
Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
Circuit and packet switching
Analog and digital technologies
Local Loop Configurations
Loop Signaling
Local Loop Equipment
Access Points
Cabling
Transport and signaling networks
Switched telephone and data networks
Access and terminal equipment networks
Convergence
Next Generation Networks (NGNs)
Communications Technologies
Communications methods
Bandwidth, loss, frequency response
AMI, B8ZS, NRZ, AM, FM, PSK, QAM
Sync and async transmission
Modulation/demodulation
Communications devices
Voice coding method
Basic Data Communications
LANs, PANs, MANs, SANs, WANs
Technology of network architecture
Packet switching
Data communication channels
Data communication device
Public and private networks
Lines and trunks
Leased and switched networks
Switched circuit and packet Services
Dedicated Services
Network Intelligence and Signaling
Signaling System 7 (SS7) - The Glue
Transmission Media
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
Voice and data integration
Frame relay
SONET/SDH
DWDM
ATM/cell relay
TCP/IP
NGN/VoIP
IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)
Broadband Technologies
Cable
xDSL
Fixed Wireless/WiMAX
Mobile Wireless/GSM/CDMA/UMTS
Mobile Broadband/1xEV-DO/UMTS/LTE/Mobile WiMAX
VPN
MPLS
MPLS VPNs
IPTV
Digital Access and Transport Systems and Standards
North American Digital Hierarchy: DS0, DS1 (T1), DS2, DS3 (T3)
Fractional Services
European hierarchy: E1, E2 and E3
Basic Rate Interface (BRI) ISDN
Primary Rate Interface (BPR) ISDN
Digital Access and Cross-connect System (DACS)
xDSL
DSLAMS
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
DWDM
Metro Ethernet
Wireless communications
Mobile and Cellular Services
Cellular Networks
Personal Communications Service (PCS) Standards
Fixed Broadband access: LMDS, MMDS
Wireless LANs/MANs/WANs
Microwave communications
Satellite communications: LEO, MEO, HEO, GEO
Convergence
Voice and Data
Transmission
Networks
Applications
IP Infrastructure and Services
VoFR
VoATM
VoDSL
VoIP
QoS
All IP Access and Backbone
Voice over IP (VoIP) Essentials
The principles of transmitting voice calls and fax over the Internet
Applications
VoIP networks
Bandwidth compression
The Gateway
Packet prioritization
RSVP
H.320
H.323
SIP
WAN engineering issues
Wireless Essentials
Fixed and Mobile Wireless
Wireless PANs: RFID, Bluetooth, ZigBee, UWB/Wireless USB
This course is designed to provide a general overview for strategic or sales and marketing managers, data communications professionals, software application engineers and information systems engineers.
Prerequisites
This is an introductory course with no prerequisites.
