DVD-Video Course V1: Fundamentals of Telecommunications 1 Telephony and the PSTN · Telecom Equipment · The Telecom Industry
It all starts with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Plain Ordinary Telephone Service (POTS). We’ll begin with the basics of telephony: loops, trunks, circuits, analog, the voiceband... fundamentals that are key to understanding of newer technologies and services.
To complete the picture, we take a practical journey through different types of equipment. We'll review switches, PBXs, Centrex, multiplexers and routers, as well as ancillary equipment like ACDs, voice mail and interactive voice response (IVR) systems.
With this framework in place, we'll review the telecommunications industry and understand the main players and competitors, how Local Exchange Carriers connect to Inter-Exchange Carriers and how CLECs fit into the picture.
The topics in this video course - how the telephone system and industry work, provide the essential foundation on which everything else, including digital communications, data circuits and networking are built. 2 hours 22 minutes of career- and productivity-enhancing training! Many people tell us this is training they wish they'd had years ago.
Course outline - V1: Fundamentals of Telecom 1 Length 142 minutes. DVD-R NTSC format. 55-page 8.5" x 11" softcover bound workbook. Production year 2006.
Part 1 Fundamentals of Telephony
1.03 The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
1.05 Analog Circuits
1.07 What is Sound?
1.09 The Voiceband
1.11 Plain Ordinary Telephone Service (POTS)
1.13 DTMF Address Signaling
1.15 Signaling System 7 (SS7)
3.03 US Domestic Telcos
3.05 AT&T and Verizon
3.07 Canadian Telephone Companies
3.09 PSTN Switching Centers Before Competition
3.11 Accessing The Interexchange Carriers
3.13 Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs)
Appendix A Acronyms and Abbreviations
Teracom's self-paced DVD-video courses
Teracom's self-paced DVD-video courses: ideal for learning about telecom, datacom, networking, IP, MPLS, Voice over IP and wireless outside of structured seminars.
Each course comes with an approx. 2-hour full-color multimedia DVD-video, a comprehensive workbook/textbook with copies of all graphics and detailed reference notes that are sure to be a valuable reference for years to come; plus a knowledge evaluation exercise and personalized course completion certificate suitable for framing.
