Modern Telecommunications Overview

Onsite Training: Emerging Technologies, SDN, NFV, Cloud, Blockchain and General Networking
  • Course:Modern Telecommunications Overview
  • Course ID:TELECOM1 Duration:2-5 days Where: Your Office (7+ Persons)
  • Available as a private, customized course for your group at your offices or ours and in some cases as a WebLive(TM) class.

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Course Outline

 

Part 1: Telecommunications overview, major telecom systems, protocols and standards

 

  • What is telecom?
    • Overview diagram and explanation
      • Basic components of any telecom system
      • How they relate to end-user needs
    • Goals of telecom and how pieces fit together at highest level
  • How telecom technologies work: the basics (partial list)
    • Wired and wireless systems
    • The electromagnetic spectrum
    • Analog vs digital
    • Conversion of analog to digital
    • Connection-oriented vs connectionless
    • Dedicated vs. switched
    • Synchronous vs asynchronous
    • Protocols
    • Packets
    • Bandwidth
    • Carriers and modulation
    • MPEG, JPEG, etc.
    • BRI, PRI
  • Major telecom systems (partial list)
    • Wired systems: Copper/twisted pair, coax, optical fiber
    • RF/SATCOM: Land Mobile Radio (LMR), satellite
    • Cellular: Evolution of 2G to 3G, 4G LTE, and 5G
    • Other wireless: WiFi, CDMA2000, WiMAX
    • Optical: SONET/SDH, DWDM
    • Ethernet
    • IP
    • MPLS/VPN
    • ISDN
    • Free space optics
    • Radio/TV
  • Protocols and standards
    • Purpose of and need for protocols and standards
    • OSI stack and how it relates to various systems and technologies
      • Understanding telecom in terms of layers
      • How layers relate to technologies
      • OSI stack and end-end telecommunications
    • Standards bodies and some typical standards
  • Internet Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
    • What they are
    • How they work
    • How modern networks utilize them
    • How they are implemented across technologies and systems
    • Quality of Service (QoS) and IP networks
    • IP and common applications
  • The Internet and how it works
    • Overview
    • Addressing
    • Infrastructure
    • End users and access
    • Regulation and future of the Internet
  • IP Multimedia System (IMS)
    • What it is, goals
    • How it is envisioned to work
    • Relationship with other technologies
    • Fixed/mobile convergence

 

Part 2: In-depth discussion of select technologies, putting together whole systems, the Cloud, major evolving trends, how to buy telecom

 

  • Telephony and VoIP
    • How it works
    • Supporting protocols
    • H.323 and SIP
    • IP PBX and other equipment
  • Endpoint (access) technologies
    • Equipment (hardware/software)
    • Service delivery points (SDPs)
    • Purchase and pricing
  • Transport (link) technologies
    • Equipment
    • Modulation techniques
    • SONET/MPLS/VPNs
    • Performance/capabilities
    • Limitations to performance (speed, error rates, Shannon’s law, etc.)
    • Impairments and their effect (noise, jitter, etc.)
    • Purchase and pricing
  • Putting it all together
    • Building an end-end system
      • Components
      • How they work together
      • End-end performance specs
    • Examples of end-end systems
  • The Cloud and modern usage of telecom
    • What the Cloud is
    • Brief history
    • What it can do and what it is expected to do in future
    • How Cloud relates to telecom
  • Evolving technologies and trends
    • Future trends in telecom equipment, services, usage, prices, and regulation
    • Software Defined Networks (SDN)
    • Virtualization: Communications side, equipment side
    • Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
    • Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications
  • How to buy telecom equipment and services
    • Turnkey services vs. do-it-yourself
    • Pricing
    • Design and implementation considerations
  • Course wrap-up