TCO Telecommunications Certifications

Upgrade your knowledge – and your résumé – with high-quality telecom training courses by Teracom Training Institute plus TCO Certification from the Telecommunications Certification Organization:

Certified Telecommunications Network Specialist (CTNS)

Certified Telecommunications Subject Matter Expert (CTSME)

Certified Telecommunications Analyst (CTA)

Certified Wireless Analyst (CWA)

Certified VoIP Analyst (CVA)

Certified Telecommunications Network Specialist (CTNS)

The internationally-recognized TCO CTNS Certification is the core telecommunications network knowledge required by everyone serious in the telecom world today.

You'll bust the buzzwords, demystify the jargon, understand the fundamental concepts, technologies and standard practices ... and most importantly, the underlying ideas, and how it all fits together.

The eight full-length courses in the CTNS Certification Package cover all major areas of telecom, datacom and networking. You will start by getting up to speed on all major topics with Introduction to Broadband Converged IP Telecom plus fully up-to-date courses on Wireless, VoIP, the PSTN, OSI Layers, Ethernet, IP and MPLS.

For an individual, this knowledge and preparation makes you an ideal candidate to hire or promote to a task, as you will be able to build on your knowledge base to quickly get up to speed and work on a particular project - then have the versatility to work on subsequent projects... a desireable thought to have in your manager's mind.

For an employer, CTNS is an extremely cost-effective way of getting team members and new hires up to a common speed with a common vocabulary and reference.

CTNS Certification is obtained by passing the CTNS Exam, which is 8 individual course exams, each course having 10 multiple-choice questions.

It is accompanied by – a Teracom exclusive – a personalized Letter of Reference enumerating the knowledge you have and inviting the reader to contact us.

The coursework for CTNS is a set of eight high-quality online multimedia courses, starting with four courses on telecommunications:

2241 INTRODUCTION TO BROADBAND CONVERGED IP TELECOM
2206 WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS
2221 FUNDAMENTALS OF VOICE OVER IP
2201 THE PSTN

Then four courses on networking:

2212 THE OSI LAYERS AND PROTOCOL STACKS
2211 LANS, VLANS, WIRELESS AND OPTICAL ETHERNET
2213 IP NETWORKS, ROUTERS AND ADDRESSES
2214 MPLS AND CARRIER NETWORKS

The CTNS Certification Package Unlimited Plan includes the eight CTNS Courses and CTNS Certification Exam, both with unlimited repeats – which means guaranteed to pass if you're willing to do the work, and refresh your knowledge anytime.

CTNS Study Guide available in eBook, softcover and hardcover.

Certified Telecommunications Subject Matter Expert (CTSME)

The TCO Certified Telecommunications Subject Matter Expert (CTSME) is the most comprehensive telecom, datacom,  networking, wireless, VoIP and SIP training and certification available anywhere.

You get five certifications, with their courses, bundled with a discount in the CTSME Certification Package.

CTSME encompasses four TCO Certifications: CTNS, CTA, CVA and CWA. Complete all four to get the fifth Certification, your Certified Telecommunications Subject Matter Expert credential, including a signed, sealed and framed TCO CTMSE Certificate and personal Letter of Introduction for your résumé.

Completing these five certifications demonstrates to an employer that you have very broad, deep and comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of telecommunications:

  • The internationally-recognized CTNS certification, including Introduction to Broadband Converged IP Telecom.
  • CTA, 16 courses covering all major topics in telecom, datacom and networking from POTS to MPLS plus Security.
  • CVA, 6 courses providing depth on Voice over IP from packetization to SIP trunking.
  • CWA, 3 courses adding depth on wireless including spectrum, propagation, cellular and mobility, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

CTSME Certification will help demonstrate you have knowledge suitable for higher-level analysis, planning and design positions, which typically pay more than programmer jobs.

This knowledge and preparation makes you an ideal candidate to hire or promote, as you will have the  versatility to work on many different projects... a desirable thought to have in an employer's mind.

All-Access Pass to All Available Teracom Online Courses

The coursework for CTSME is the high-quality online multimedia courses for the component certifications: CTNS, CTA, CVA, and CWA, totaling 26 courses in all.

These twenty-six courses are in fact the set of all available Teracom online courses.

Purchasing the CTSME Certification Package gets you unlimited access to Teracom's full library of online courses, an ideal reference and learning resource for years to come.

  • Our entire library of courses
  • Unlimited repeats, jump in and out
  • There are no time limits

With the 30-day 100% money-back guarantee, you have nothing to lose, and a valuable career-enhancing asset to gain!

Click on the course name for descriptions and free sample lessons:

CTNS Certified Telecommunications Network Specialist Courses
  2241 Introduction to Broadband Converged IP Telecom
  2206 Wireless Telecommunications
  2221 Introduction to Voice over IP
  2401 The PSTN
  2411 LANs, VLANs, Wireless and Optical Ethernet
  2412 The OSI Layers and Protocol Stacks
  2413 IP Networks, Routers and Addresses
  2414 MPLS and Carrier Networks 

CTA Certified Telecommunications Analyst Courses
  2401 Fundamentals of Telephony and Voice over IP
  2402 Telecom Equipment
  2403 The Telecommunications Industry
  2404 Digital
  2405 Transmission Systems and Fiber Optics
  2406 Wireless Telecommunications
  2407 Introduction to Datacom and Networking
  2408 Data Coding, Frames and Packets
  2409 Modems: Representing Bits on Radio and Copper
  2410 The Network "Cloud" and Service Implementation
  2411 LANs, VLANs, Wireless and Optical Ethernet
  2412 The OSI Layers and Protocol Stacks
  2413 IP Networks, Routers and Addresses
  2414 MPLS and Carrier Networks
  2415 The Internet
  2416 IP Security

CVA Certified VoIP Analyst Courses
  2221 Fundamentals of Voice over IP
  2222 VoIP Architectures and Implementation Choices
  2223 Softswitches, SIP, Call Setup and SIP Trunking
  2224 Voice Packetization, Codecs and Voice Quality
  2225 SIP Trunking and Carrier Connections
  2226 IP Network Quality: CoS, QoS, MPLS AND SLAs

CWA Certified Wireless Analyst Courses
  2231 Wireless Fundamentals
  2232 Mobile Communications
  2233 Fixed Wireless

Certified Telecommunications Analyst (CTA)

The prestigious TCO Certified Telecommunications Analyst CTA Certification is the most comprehensive telecommunications certification available, demonstrating to employers that the holder has broad and deep telecom, datacom and network knowledge.

This knowledge enables the CTA to perform analysis, write reports, make recommendations... be a Telecom Analyst and a Subject Matter Expert, which typically pay more than programmer positions.

It is accompanied by the Teracom exclusive personalized Letter of Reference enumerating the knowledge you have and inviting the reader to contact us.

CTA Certification is obtained by passing the CTA Exam, which is 16 course exams, each having 10 multiple-choice questions.

The CTA Exam is available as part of the CTA Certification Package, which includes 16 courses corresponding to the exams:

  • 2401 Fundamentals of Telephony and Voice over IP
  • 2402 Telecom Equipment
  • 2403 The Telecommunications Industry
  • 2404 Digital
  • 2405 Transmission Systems and Fiber Optics
  • 2406 Wireless Telecommunications
  • 2407 Introduction to Datacom and Networking
  • 2408 Data Coding, Frames and Packets
  • 2409 Modems: Representing Bits on Radio and Copper
  • 2410 The Network "Cloud" and Service Implementation
  • 2411 LANs, VLANs, Wireless and Optical Ethernet
  • 2412 The OSI Layers and Protocol Stacks
  • 2413 IP Networks, Routers and Addresses
  • 2414 MPLS and Carrier Networks
  • 2415 The Internet
  • 2416 IP Security

CTA Certification Package is included free with Telecom BOOT CAMP!

Certified VoIP Analyst (CVA)

CVA covers all aspects of Voice over IP, including all the different ways VoIP is implemented, how calls are set up with softswitches and SIP, how voice is packetized and the factors affecting sound quality, connecting to carriers and SIP trunking, and network quality with MPLS, Service Level Agreements and Class of Service.

You will understand the fundamentals, the technologies, the jargon and the buzzwords across the full range of VoIP from Internet telephony to private Cisco Call Manager systems and everything inbetween.

This knowledge enables a CVA to stand out from the rest, with broad and deep vendor-independent knowledge of VoIP systems and practices that enables higher-paying positions performing analysis, writing reports, making recommendations and providing value-added contributions in project management, business and product development, software design, sales, marketing and finance.

CVA Certification is obtained by passing the CVA Exam, which is 6 individual course exams, each course having 10 multiple-choice questions.

It is accompanied by – a Teracom exclusive – a personalized Letter of Reference enumerating the knowledge you have and inviting the reader to contact us.

The coursework for CVA is a set of six high-quality online multimedia courses:

2221 FUNDAMENTALS OF VOICE OVER IP
2222 VoIP ARCHITECTURES AND IMPLEMENTATION CHOICES
2223 SOFTSWITCHES, SIP, CALL SETUP AND SIP TRUNKING
2224 VOICE PACKETIZATION, CODECS AND VOICE QUALITY
2225 SIP TRUNKING & CARRIER CONNECTIONS
2226 IP NETWORK QUALITY: COS, QOS, MPLS AND SLAs

The CVA Certification Package Unlimited Plan includes the six CVA Courses and CVA Certification Exam, both with unlimited repeats – which means guaranteed to pass if you're willing to do the work, and refresh your knowledge anytime.

These courses build on IP and PSTN fundamentals. If you are completely new to telecom, we recommend you take CTNS first to build a knowledge base, then CVA.

Check out the CTNS + CVA combo package discount special!

Certified Wireless Analyst (CWA)

Major Update Released 2022

TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification covers the core technical knowledge needed by anyone serious in the wireless business today.

With the high-quality self-paced courses in the CWA Certification package, you'll gain broad knowledge spanning:

  • Radio fundamentals and spectrum,
  • Digital radio and QAM modems,
  • Propagation, penetration and fading
  • Mobility concepts and network design and operation,
  • Radio technologies: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and LTE and 5G's OFDMA,
  • 5G mmWave ultra-broadband - and 5G low bitrate for IoT,
  • Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), the first full-duplex Wi-Fi,
  • 3.5 GHz Broadband wireless home Internet,
  • Point-to-point microwave,
  • Low Earth Orbit satellites and more

... and TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification and Letter of Reference to prove it!

CWA Certification is obtained by passing the CWA Exam, which is 3 individual course exams, each course having 10 multiple-choice questions.

In addition to your Certificate, you also receive a personalized Letter of Reference enumerating the knowledge you have and inviting the reader to contact us.

The coursework for CWA is a set of three high-quality online courses, featuring multimedia and on-camera instructor:
2231 WIRELESS FUNDAMENTALS
2232 MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
2233 FIXED WIRELESS

The CWA Certification Package Unlimited Plan includes the CWA courses and CWA Certification Exam, both with unlimited repeats, which means guaranteed to pass if you're willing to do the work, and refresh your knowledge anytime.

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Benefits of Certification For Individuals

One benefit of TCO certification is differentiating yourself from the rest of the crowd when applying for a job or angling for a promotion.

The knowledge you gain taking Teracom's Online Courses, confirmed with TCO Certification, is foundational knowledge in telecommunications, IP, networking and wireless: fundamental concepts, mainstream technologies, jargon, buzzwords, and the underlying ideas - and how it all fits together.

This type of knowledge and preparation makes you an ideal candidate to hire or promote to a task, as you will be able to build on your knowledge base to quickly get up to speed and work on a particular project - then have the versatility to work on subsequent projects.

TCO Certification will help demonstrate you have this skill... a desirable thought to have in your potential manager's mind.

Benefits of Certification For Employers

Teracom certification packages are an extremely cost-effective way of implementing consistent, comprehensive telecommunications and network technology fundamentals training, ensuring that both existing resources and new hires are up to the same speed, with a common vocabulary, framework and knowledge base.

The course exams provide concrete measurements of competency in key knowledge areas.

Management can view reports on the progress and results of team members, and export results to Excel with the click of a button. These reports identify skills strengths and deficiencies, and are a demonstration of meeting managerial objectives of team building and return on investment.

Get this training for your whole team. The scalable myTeracom Learning Management System can register and manage all of your people through courses, exams and certificates.

For larger organizations, the courses and exams can also be licensed and deployed on your LMS.

Getting Your Certificate

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Each course has a course exam, consisting of ten multiple-choice questions chosen at random from a pool and shuffled in order. Passing the course exams proves your knowledge of these topics and results in your certification.

Your Certificate and Letter of Reference / Letter of Introduction will be immediately available for download from your Dashboard in the myTeracom Learning Management System. You may also order a signed and sealed Certificate by airmail.

Teracom's exclusive Unlimited Plan allows you unlimited repeats courses and exams with no expiry – which means guaranteed to get your certificate if you're willing to learn, plus jump in and out of courses and refresh your knowledge anytime in the future.

Get started today to make this invaluable addition to your knowledge and skills!

Invest in yourself

Implement a major career-enhancing upgrade to your knowledge, or prepare for a job in the telecommunications business.

Get the knowledge you need

Understand telecom, datacom and networking fundamentals, jargon, buzzwords, technologies and standard practices... and how it all fits together.

Benefit from decades of experience

with courses covering all major topics, right up to date, in clear lessons logically organized to deliver structured knowledge that lasts a lifetime.

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Teracom Advantages
 
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This is the best quality training of its kind available.
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• Career-enhancing knowledge
This training is an ideal way to implement a career-enhancing upgrade to your knowledge, 
or to prepare for a job in the telecommunications business.
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Choose the Unlimited Plan for unlimited repeats of courses and exams - which means you can retake courses to refresh your knowledge in the future, and guaranteed to pass the exam if you're willing to learn.  unlimited plan info
• Self-paced training
The courses and their lessons can be done at your own pace. There are no time limits for completing a lesson and moving to the next one. The courses may be done in any order.
• Team training

These courses are a highly cost-effective and consistent way for managers to get team members up to a common speed with measurable results. The myTeracom Learning Management System provides management reports showing your team's progress with a few clicks of the mouse.

Technical Level and Intended Audience

Our training has been taught to wide acclaim across North America since 1992 and is designed for the non-engineering professional needing an overview and update, and for those new to the business needing to get up to speed quickly on telecommunications, data communications, broadband, IP, MPLS, wireless, networking, Voice over IP (VoIP) phone systems, SIP and security.

Our emphasis is conveying the key concept-level knowledge in plain English - which you can't get reading trade magazines or talking to vendors. We put in place a solid, valuable and long-lasting understanding. It is our goal to bust the buzzwords, demystify the jargon, and cut through the double-talk to present a clear, cohesive picture.

Based on Teracom's proven instructor-led training courses developed and refined over twenty years providing training for organizations including AT&T, Verizon, Bell Canada, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Qualcomm, the CIA, NSA, IRS, FAA, US Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force and hundreds of others, Teracom online courses are top-notch, top-quality and right up to date with the topics and knowledge you need.

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Ideal for self-paced training, courses are divided into lessons. Stay on a lesson for as long as you like, and move to the next lesson then write the course exam only when ready.

Team training packages with group discount and management reporting from our Learning Management System are very popular.

With the Unlimited Plan, you can repeat exams as needed, and retake courses anytime in the future. There are no time limits or expiration dates. 30-day 100% money-back guarantee.