| Description |
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This two-day seminar
is our three-module core training program condensed into two days, available
only as a private onsite course. Telecommunications for Non-Engineers
covers all topics, from the PSTN and DSL and cable modems to digital transmission
and wireless to packets, routers, ATM and the Internet in a two-day format.
Some of the lengthier technical discussions of modems, LANs, protocol
stacks and ATM have been shortened compared to the 3-day version to fit
this into two days.
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| Course
objectives |
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Understand telecom fundamentals: telephony and the Public Switched Telephone Network,
the telecom business, digital transmission systems and wireless, and datacom
and networking essentials. |
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Fill in knowledge gaps.
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Form a solid knowledge base to build on. |
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Understand fundamental radio communications concepts. |
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Survey different mainstream wireless technologies and applications. |
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Understand cellular, TDMA/GSM, CDMA and the transition to 3G. |
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| What you will
learn |
| Day 1
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The structure and operation of the telephone network. |
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What analog means. The voiceband. Loops and trunks. |
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Plain Ordinary Telephone Service.
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What CO switches, PBXs, IVRs, ACDs and modems do.
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All about LECs, CLECs, IXCs and interconnections. |
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What digital means. What a DS0 is. |
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The difference between a DS1 and a T1. |
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What fiber is and how backbones are built with fiber. |
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Wireless and cellular concepts, terminology, standards. |
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| Day 2
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DTEs, DCEs, media, and how they form a circuit. |
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Common configurations: parallel, serial, multidrop, multipoint, LANs and WANs. |
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Older ideas: asynchronous, ASCII, start/stop/parity bits.
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Newer ideas: frames and packets. IP packets.
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Truly understand the OSI layers and protocol stacks. |
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How to connect all your computers to one internet access |
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Private networks using dedicated T1s - and carriers.
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Bandwidth-on-demand concepts: PVCs. |
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Services: X.25, Frame Relay, ATM, IP VPN services. |
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An overview of voice over frame relay and VoIP. |
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The history, structure and operation of the Internet. |
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Internet issues like ISPs, MIME, domain names. |
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Practical mainstream solutions for networks. |
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| Prerequisites |
| None. |
| Who should attend |
| Those needing to fill in
the gaps and put in place a solid base of telephony and telecom fundamentals. |
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Course Content (High-Level Summary):
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Day 1 |
| The Fundamentals of Telecommunications |
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The Public Switched Telephone Network
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Sound, switches, modems, DSL and cable
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| The Telecommunications Industry |
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Canadian
and US domestic telephone companies
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Regulation,
competition and carriers
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| Digital Communications |
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Analog and
Digital; Voice digitization
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Digital
carrier systems, ISDN and integration
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| Transmission Systems |
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Time Division
Multiplexing
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The T-1
carrier system; Digital Circuits; Fibre
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| Wireless Communications |
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Mobile
wireless and principles of cellular communications
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Digital cellular; Satellite
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Day 2 |
| Datacom and Networking Essentials |
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IP packets;
LANs and WANs; routers and networks
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Configuration examples-LANs,
WANs, Multidrop and Point-to-Point circuits
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| How Data is Formatted for Transmission |
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The basics-bits and bytes ASCII, start and stop bits
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Frames, Cyclical Redudancy Checking(CRC)
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Packets, Packets vs. Frames compared, IP packets
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| Understanding Protocol Stacks, Networks |
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The OSI reference model, the 7 protocol layers explained,
the protocol stack in operation
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Standards organizations
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| Routers and Banwidth on Demand Services |
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Integrating applications on high capacity digital
service, Voice channels for bursty data
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CASE STUDY-T1 based LAN,
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CASE STUDY-T1 based LAN-to-LAN WANs
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Bandwidth on demand, technology roundup
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Voice over Bandwidth on Demand, Voice over IP
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| Understanding the Internet
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Internet history and basics, what the Internet is
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Internet Service Providers
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DHCP with ISPs
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Common Intertnet protocols, Domain Name System,
World Wide Web, HTML and HTTP
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Web browsers, Accessing the Internet
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Security Essentials:Firewalls
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| Practical Networking Solutions |
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Private Networks, Frame Relay and TCP/IP over Frame
Relay
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Broadband IP carrier services
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Tunneling over the Internet with VPNs
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Hybrid Designs
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