Fundamentals of Telecoms
Duration: 2 days
Overview
Lack of a clear
understanding of how telecom networks work, its services and the key
developing issues, poses problems for many non-technical professionals
particularly those in the communications and IT sectors. This course
responds to popular demand for a genuine overview which demystifies the
technology - those terms, buzzwords and acronyms of telecoms - without the
heavy technical detail.
Key Benefits
· Understand the
scope and concepts of modern telecommunications
· Gain an overview of
the diverse technologies being used today
· Learn which features and
issues are core to your business processes and plans
· Understand your
technical and engineering colleagues
· Understand the relationship
between the concepts and jargon used
Who should attend
·
Sales, marketing, PR, human relations, customer support and other
non-technical professionals. · New recruits to the telecomms, networking,
IT and media industries.
· Executives evaluating telecoms related
investments for their organisations
Course Content
Telecoms
- a helicopter overview
· A telecoms network - basic concepts
and functions explained
Transmission
· Multiplexers
in a transmission network
· Digital transmission using analogue circuits
·
Digital hierarchies
Switching and Signalling
· Stored
Program Control, PABX's, CENTREX, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Computer
Telephony Integration (CTI),
· Signalling systems - private and public
·
Intelligent Networking (IN), examples of freephone and premium rate calls
Digital
access networks
· ISDN and its applications
· New
Digital Subscriber Line - ADSL etc
· Fibre, cable systems, Wireless
local loop
Mobile Communications
· Cellular radio
principles
· Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)
·
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
· 3G - 3rd generation - CMDA, UMTS
and IMT 2000
Data communications
· How computers
communicate
· X.25 and Frame Relay
· Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM)
The internet
· The World Wide Web
· How
does the internet work
· Routers and the internet protocol (IP)
·
How does TCP/IP work? - a TCP/IP example
· Intranets and extranets
·
The internet goes mobile - WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)
Convergence
- voice over IP
