Telecommunications Essentials

Course Status:	Released
Course Language:	English
Course Duration:	5 Hours
Deployment Options:	Online, Interactive CDs, Network, Downloads, Intranet

Audience

Network managers, builders of wide area networks, and newcomers to data communications

Prerequisites

None, though some technical background is assumed; the Internetworking Essentials courses Data Communications: Networks and Standards and Data Communications: Signals and Systems, while not essential, would be useful

Course Aim

To give students an overview of telecommunication technologies

Learning Objectives

Define the various terms associated with telecommunications. Summarize the development of the telephone system. Discuss telecommunications technologies. Describe voice networking. Discuss signaling systems. Describe digital TDM hierarchies.

Topics Covered

Telecommunications fundamentals - Analog and digital signals - Voice fundamentals The telephone network - Structure of the telephone network - Telecommunications standards Principles of digital telephony - The digital network - Digitizing the human voice - Frame format Principles of telephony transmission - FDM, TDM, and WDM - The CEPT digital TDM hierarchy - The US digital TDM hierarchy