Upon completion of this course attendees will:
- Understand the details of telecom networks and technologies
- Understand advanced data communications concepts
- Understand IP Networking
- Exploit the capabilities of next-generation networks
- Understand fixed and mobile wireless
- Exploit the capabilities of wireless networks
- Design and manage telecom converged network
- Leverage communication technologies and protocols for voice, data and video convergence
- Apply best practices to plan, design, implement and manage converged network
- Current and future telecom market
- Major new trends in technology and regulation
- Access and transport technologies
- PSTN operations and topology
- Fiber optic transmission systems
- SONET/SDH and DWDM/WDM
- Cable
- SS7
- HFC, FTTN, FTTC and FTTB
- Convergence
- Integrated voice and data networks
Integrated voice and data networks
- Voice and data traffic measurements and engineering
- Network convergence
- Requirements of converged solutions
- VoIP, IPTV, unified messaging, video-on-demand and presence
- Transporting voice and video
- Converged network building blocks
- Working with IPv4 and IPv6
- Delivering End-to-End Quality of Service
- Defining Quality of Service (QoS)
- Moving from TDM to IP
- Core network services
- Voice over IP (VoIP)
- Unified Communications (UC)
- Next generation of voice and data services
- SIP, MGCP/MEGACO, SIGTRAN
- IMS
- IPTV
- MPLS TE and MPLS VPN
- IPv6
- cloud computing
Fixed and Mobile Networks
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- CDMA/CDMA2000/1xEV-DO
- WCDMA/UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+
- 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ad
- WiMAX
- LTE/EPC/EPS
- SATCOM and VSAT
Evolving Broadband Technologies
- Digital subscriber line (DSL) services
- Ethernet
- Power-line communication
- Broadband Over Powerline (BPL)
- Cable broadband
- Fiber optic based Broadband
- FTTH - Fiber-to-the-home
- FTTN - Fiber-to-the-node
- FTTC - Fiber-to-the-cabinet or fiber-to-the-curb
- FTTB - Fiber-to-the-building or Fiber-to-the-basement
- Active optical networks (AONs)
- Passive optical networks (PONs)
- Optical Network Terminal (ONT)
- Optical Network Unit (ONU)
- Optical line terminal (OLT)
- TDM-PON
- DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON or DPoE
- RFoG
- WDM-PON
- Long-Reach Optical Access Networks
Overview of Evolving Wireline Access Broadband Technologies
- Digital Subscriber Line
- xDSL Capabilities
- Cable Networks – Components and Architecture
- The DOCSIS
- Fiber Distribution
- Metro Ethernet
- Hybrid Fiber and Cable (HFC)
- Fiber to the Curb (FTTC)
- Fiber to the Home (FTTH)
- Passive Optical Networks (PON)
- PON Variants
- PON Components and Architectures
Overview of Broadband Optical networking
- FTTx
- Passive Optical Networks (PON)
- PON network architecture
- APON
- BPON
- GPON
- EPON
- GEPON
- CPON
- ITU-T G.983.x
- ITU-T G.984.x
- IEEE 802.3-2005 clauses 64 and 65
- Self-Defending networks
- Ethernet's ongoing evolution
- GigE
- Metro Ethernet and VPLS
- GMPLS
- Advanced optical and photonic
Ethernet-Based Backhaul
- Backhaul Network Options and Operations
- Network architecture
- Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM)
- EFM over fiber
- EFM over copper
- EFM over passive optical network
- Ethernet First Mile
- Over Dense Wave Division Multiplex (DWDM) optical networks
- 10GbE
- Over SONET / SDH
- Backhaul access network options
- Backhaul aggregation network options
- IP/MPLS pseudowires
- VLANS/VPLS
- Topology
- Ring, hub-and-spoke (star), or full or partial mesh
- Ethernet Transport in the form of 10G or 100G speeds
- Ethernet on the MAN
- Ethernet, Ethernet over SONET/SDH
- Ethernet over MPLS
Evolving of Wireless Access Broadband Technologies
- Short-Range Wireless Technologies
- Personal Area Networks (PAN)
- Bluetooth, RFID, NFC and Zigbee Capabilities
- Wireless LANs and 802.11n/ac/ad
- In-Home Networks
- Femtocells
- Satellite Systems/VSAT
- Wireless Backhaul Evolution Scenario
- Concepts behind Radio Communications
- Cellular Networks
- 2G./3G/4G Basics
- WiMAX and Mobile WiMAX
- 3G/UMTS/EV-DO
- LTE (Long Term Evolution)
- LTE/EPC, Flat IP Core
OSS (Operations Support Systems)
- Concepts behind OSS/BSS
- Billing
- Fraud
- CRM
- Revenue Assurance