Channel Title: Teracom Training Institute Channel Description: The best online telecom and network training courses are from Teracom Training Institute. Teracom has built a huge reputation over twenty years as the best in the "telecom-for-non-engineers" training business. We have a customer list that includes AT&T, the CIA, NSA, IRS, FAA, US Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, Bell Canada, TELUS, Bank of America, Wells Fargo Bank, and managers, purchasers, sales and marketing, software designers, finance people, telecom analysts and users at thousands of public and private organisations ranging from Oneida Tableware to the SF Giants and everything in-between. Teracom has a US Government GSA Schedule contract for this very training. Online telecom training courses: http://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm Telecom certification packages: http://www.teracomtraining.com/certification.htm <video> Packets, IP Addresses and Routers | sous-titres français Description: L'explication de ce que sont les paquets, comment ils ont une adresse réseau (IPv4 étant actuellement populaire) et comment ils sont acheminés par les routeurs sur les réseaux. (sous-titres français). The explanation of what packets are, how they have a network address (IPv4 being currently popular), and how they are routed by routers over networks. (French subtitles). This is a quality test of a subtitling application. Lesson 1520, from TCO CTA Certification https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses-certification/cta-certification.htm </video> <video> CWA: TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Introduction and Overview Description: Watch in full quality https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#cwa-course-list . Introduction to Telecommunication Certification Organization TCO Certified Wireless Analyst CWA Certification Courses (and Exam) with your instructor Eric Coll, M.Eng. The TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification Package delivers the core technical knowledge needed by anyone serious in the wireless business today. Visit https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses-certification/certified-wireless-analyst-cwa.htm for information and registration. With the high-quality self-paced courses in the CWA Certification package, you'll gain broad knowledge spanning: - Radio fundamentals and spectrum, - Digital radio and QAM modems, - Propagation, penetration and fading - Mobility concepts and network design and operation, - Radio technologies: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and LTE and 5G’s OFDMA, - 5G mmWave ultra-broadband - and 5G low bitrate for IoT, - Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), the first full-duplex Wi-Fi, - 3.5 GHz Broadband wireless home Internet, - Point-to-point microwave, - Low Earth Orbit satellites and more ... and TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification with Personalized Letter of Reference to prove it! Body language conveys a surprisingly large amount of information. Students who find they learn more from a person than from computer-generated images will appreciate that many of the lessons are video, taught to you by our charming and entertaining instructor directly into the camera, with overlaid bullets and graphics on-screen. As close as you can get to private lessons from the Course Director without actually being there! The CWA Study Guide is an essential enhancement to the TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification Package. The CWA Study Guide contains detailed notes and graphics corresponding exactly to the CWA lessons... therefore containing all of the answers to the CWA exam questions! Having a companion reference textbook avoids the need to take notes, and greatly enhances learning and retention, helping you learn and burn the concepts into the neurons of your brain. CWA Study Guide Available in eBook, softcover and hardcover: eBook from Google https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=rppjEAAAQBAJ eBook from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V86LSGY eBook from Apple https://books.apple.com/us/book/tco-cwa-study-guide/id1613606144?ls=1 softcover https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Analyst-Study-Guide-dp-1894887689/dp/1894887689/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Analyst-Study-Guide-dp-1894887859/dp/1894887859/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= Contents 1:06 Course 2231 Wireless Fundamentals 1. Radio Fundamentals 2. Wireless Spectrum and Radio Bands 3. Analog Radio 4. Digital Radio: How Modems Work 5. Propagation, Penetration and Fading 1:42 Course 2232 Mobile Communications 1. Mobile Network Components and Operation 2. Cellular Principles 3. 1G: Analog Frequency-Division Multiple Access 4. Second Generation: Digital 5. PSTN Calls Using the Native Phone App: "Voice Minutes" 6. Mobile Internet: "Data Plan" 7. Mobile Network Operators, MVNOs & Roaming 8. TDMA (IS-136): Time-Division Multiple Access 9. TDMA (GSM): Time-Division Multiple Access 10. CDMA: Code-Division Multiple Access 11. Spread Spectrum 12. CDMA Operation and Patents 13. 3G: CDMA 1X, UMTS and HSPA 14. 4G LTE: Mobile Broadband 15. Dynamic Assignment of Subcarriers 16. 5G NR: Enhanced Mobile Broadband, IoT Communications 17. Spectrum-Sharing Roundup: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDMA 7:19 Course 2233 Fixed Wireless 1. Infrared 2. Bluetooth 3. Wi-Fi: Wireless LANs 4. Wi-Fi Security and WPA2 5. Point-to-Point Microwave 6. 3.5 GHz Broadband Wireless Home Internet 7. Low-Power Wide Area Radio Networks for IoT 8. Satellite Communications </video> <video> Introduction to Broadband Converged IP Telecom - Course Introduction Description: Watch in full quality: https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2241 Course 2241 Introduction to Broadband Converged IP Telecom: Convergence • Broadband • Network Core and Edge • Protocols • Last Mile Network Access • Residential, Business and Wholesale Services • Network Equipment • Carrier Connections Introduction to Broadband Converged IP Telecom is the first course in the TCO CTNS Certification Package, delivering a high-level introduction to the world of modern IP telecommunications. https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses-certification/teracom-overview-ctns.htm This lesson is the introduction to the course. This course is based on the beginning of Teracom’s famous instructor-led BOOT CAMP, getting a full week of training started with an introduction to all of the different aspects of the modern converged IP telecom network. This introductory course is designed specifically for non-engineering professionals to be a first pass through the topics, explaining the fundamental ideas, jargon, equipment and technologies, the services that are sold, the players, where the money is, and how it all fits together… without bogging down in details on any particular topic. In subsequent courses, we’ll take another pass and drill deeper into key areas like Wireless, VoIP, PSTN, Ethernet, IP and MPLS. Course Outline 1. Introduction Course introduction and overview 2. Convergence One network carrying all services: telephone, video and Internet. Channels vs. packets. 3. Broadband Bandwidth, and how much “broad” might be 4. Broadband Converged IP Telecommunications Model Graphical model identifying all the main aspects of telecommunications and how they relate 5. The Network Core High-capacity, high-availability connections between aggregation centers. Fiber rings. 6. Network Protocols: Ethernet, IP and MPLS Ethernet moves packets point-to-point. IP address is the final destination. MPLS manages flows. 7. Network Access: The Last Mile Twisted pair, hybrid fiber-coax, Passive Optical Network, Optical Ethernet, cellular, satellite 8. Anatomy of a Service Network access technology, network connection type and billing agreement 9. Services: Residential, Business and Wholesale Comprehensive review of the main dollar-value services in each sector 10. Network Equipment Layer 2 switches, IP routers, MPLS routers, FDM and TDM multiplexers, wavelength cross connects 11. Carrier Network Interconnect Tariffed switched-access for calls involving a PSTN phone number; Internet Exchange transit and peering Prerequisites None.   Course Objectives: What You Will Learn After taking this course, with the book open, you will be able to: - Define convergence, and two ways that it might be achieved - Define bandwidth, explain what broadband means and how much “broad” might be - Identify all of the main aspects of the modern broadband converged IP network, including the parts of the physical network, the three types of services, the equipment and players - Describe the network core, its purpose, performance requirements and how they are implemented - Identify the three primary network protocols: Ethernet, IP and MPLS, and what each does - Explain how MAC Frames and IP Packets go together - Identify the essential purpose of an IP address - Explain the essential advantage of MPLS over IP for routing - Define the three main technology areas for network access - List the most popular technologies in each - Describe the three components of a network service - Define the three main groupings of telecom services based on customer type - Describe at least four different meanings of the term VPN - Differentiate between streaming video vs. video from your ISP, and the essential difference between them - Explain in general what an MPLS VPN is and who uses it - Identify the key difference between MPLS VPN services and SD-WAN services - Explain what SIP trunking is and what legacy service it replaces - List at least four types of wholesale telecommunications services - Explain what a Data Center is - Explain the essential function of a router - Describe what a Layer 2 switch is used for, and how Layer 2 switches relate to routers - Define multiplexing - Identify three technologies that use Frequency-Division Multiplexing - Identify the name for FDM in the fiber optic world - Differentiate between FDM and Time-Division Multiplexing - Describe what a gateway is and the two functions it performs - Identify the two main ways that carriers connect, and where this happens This is quite a range of knowledge, and can appear daunting, especially if you are new to telecom. Don't panic. This course is the introduction, the first pass through all of these topics. We go back over them again later. No-one is expecting anyone to be an instant expert! In this course, we’re getting started with a big picture view of modern broadband converged IP telecommunications. </video> <video> Radio Fundamentals: CWA Course 2231 Lesson 1201 Description: Watch in full quality https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2231. TCO CWA Certified Wireless Analyst Course 2231 Lesson 1201 Radio Fundamentals is the first course in the CWA Certification Package. We begin with the basics: what radio is, how it's organized and how and it's used to communicate information. The TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification Package delivers the core technical knowledge needed by anyone serious in the wireless business today. Visit https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses-certification/certified-wireless-analyst-cwa.htm for information and registration. With the high-quality self-paced courses in the CWA Certification package, you'll gain broad knowledge spanning: - Radio fundamentals and spectrum, - Digital radio and QAM modems, - Propagation, penetration and fading - Mobility concepts and network design and operation, - Radio technologies: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and LTE and 5G’s OFDMA, - 5G mmWave ultra-broadband - and 5G low bitrate for IoT, - Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), the first full-duplex Wi-Fi, - 3.5 GHz Broadband wireless home Internet, - Point-to-point microwave, - Low Earth Orbit satellites and more ... and TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification with Personalized Letter of Reference to prove it! Body language conveys a surprisingly large amount of information. Students who find they learn more from a person than from computer-generated images will appreciate that many of the lessons are video, taught to you by our charming and entertaining instructor directly into the camera, with overlaid bullets and graphics on-screen. As close as you can get to private lessons from the Course Director without actually being there! The CWA Study Guide is an essential enhancement to the TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification Package. The CWA Study Guide contains detailed notes and graphics corresponding exactly to the CWA lessons... therefore containing all of the answers to the CWA exam questions! Having a companion reference textbook avoids the need to take notes, and greatly enhances learning and retention, helping you learn and burn the concepts into the neurons of your brain. CWA Study Guide Available in eBook, softcover and hardcover: eBook from Google https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=rppjEAAAQBAJ eBook from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V86LSGY eBook from Apple https://books.apple.com/us/book/tco-cwa-study-guide/id1613606144?ls=1 softcover https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Analyst-Study-Guide-dp-1894887689/dp/1894887689/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Analyst-Study-Guide-dp-1894887859/dp/1894887859/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= </video> <video> Broadband Wireless Home Internet - CWA Course 2233 Lesson 1473 Description: Watch in full quality https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2233. This is the sixth lesson in the TCO CWA Certified Wireless Analyst Course 2233 Fixed Wireless, explaining 3.5 GHz band broadband wireless, the housing density where broadband wireless is cheaper than fiber to the home, the restrictions of near-field interference, all so our kids can watch videos of fat hairless cats in 4K. The TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification Package delivers the core technical knowledge needed by anyone serious in the wireless business today. Visit https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses-certification/certified-wireless-analyst-cwa.htm for information and registration. With the high-quality self-paced courses in the CWA Certification package, you'll gain broad knowledge spanning: - Radio fundamentals and spectrum, - Digital radio and QAM modems, - Propagation, penetration and fading - Mobility concepts and network design and operation, - Radio technologies: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and LTE and 5G’s OFDMA, - 5G mmWave ultra-broadband - and 5G low bitrate for IoT, - Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), the first full-duplex Wi-Fi, - 3.5 GHz Broadband wireless home Internet, - Point-to-point microwave, - Low Earth Orbit satellites and more ... and TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification with Personalized Letter of Reference to prove it! Body language conveys a surprisingly large amount of information. Students who find they learn more from a person than from computer-generated images will appreciate that many of the lessons are video, taught to you by our charming and entertaining instructor directly into the camera, with overlaid bullets and graphics on-screen. As close as you can get to private lessons from the Course Director without actually being there! The CWA Study Guide is an essential enhancement to the TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification Package. The CWA Study Guide contains detailed notes and graphics corresponding exactly to the CWA lessons... therefore containing all of the answers to the CWA exam questions! Having a companion reference textbook avoids the need to take notes, and greatly enhances learning and retention, helping you learn and burn the concepts into the neurons of your brain. CWA Study Guide Available in eBook, softcover and hardcover: eBook from Google https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=rppjEAAAQBAJ eBook from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V86LSGY eBook from Apple https://books.apple.com/us/book/tco-cwa-study-guide/id1613606144?ls=1 softcover https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Analyst-Study-Guide-dp-1894887689/dp/1894887689/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Analyst-Study-Guide-dp-1894887859/dp/1894887859/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= </video> <video> Tutorial: Carrier Network Fundamentals - Packet Routing and Overbooking Description: From CTNS Course 2214 MPLS and Carrier Networks, explaining the key ideas behind a packet network. https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2214 </video> <video> MPLS and Carrier Networks - Course Introduction Description: Watch in full quality: https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2214 Carrier Packet Networks • Technologies • MPLS • MPLS VPNs • SLAs • CoS • Integration & Aggregation MPLS and Carrier Networks is a comprehensive training course designed to build a solid understanding of carrier packet networks and services, the terminology, technologies, configuration, operation and most importantly, the underlying ideas… in plain English. We'll cut through the buzzwords and marketing to demystify carrier packet networks and services, explaining Service Level Agreements, traffic profiles, virtual circuits, QoS, Class of Service, Differentiated Services, integration, convergence and aggregation, MPLS and other network technologies, and how they relate to TCP/IP, without bogging down on details. Course Lessons 1. Introduction 2. Carrier Packet Network Basics 3. Service Level Agreements 4. Virtual Circuits 5. QoS Requirement for Voice over IP 6. MPLS 7. TCP/IP over MPLS 8. Differentiated Classes of Service using MPLS 9. Integration and Convergence using MPLS 10. Managing Aggregates of Traffic with MPLS Label Stacking 11. MPLS Services vs. Internet Service Based on Teracom's famous Course 101, tuned and refined over the course of over 25 years of instructor-led training, you will gain career- and productivity-enhancing knowledge of the structure, components and operation of carrier packet networks and services, how they are implemented, packaged and marketed by carriers and how they are used by government, business… and other carriers. Detailed Description MPLS and Carrier Networks is a comprehensive, up-to-date course on the networks companies like AT&T build and operate, how they are implemented, the services they offer, and how customers connect to the network. This course can be taken by those who need just an introduction to carrier networks and MPLS, as well as by those who need to build a solid base on which to build project- or environment-specific knowledge. In the previous course, we used a private network, i.e. dedicated point-to-point circuits connected with routers, as the simplest framework for understanding packets, bandwidth on demand, routers, and network addresses. In this course, we will take the same idea and apply it again at the carrier network level: replacing the dedicated lines with bandwidth on demand service from a carrier between the customer locations. We'll spend much of this course understanding a powerful traffic management tool called virtual circuits, how they are implemented with MPLS, and how MPLS can be used to provide differentiated services, aggregate traffic and implement convergence. Without bogging down on details, we'll cut through buzzwords and marketing to demystify: Carrier packet networks and services Customer Edge (CE) and Provider Edge (PE) Service Level Agreements Traffic profiles Virtual circuits QoS, Class of Service and Differentiated Services Integration, convergence and aggregation MPLS and other network technologies How this relates to TCP/IP How MPLS is used for business customer VPNs How MPLS is used for integrated access: How all services are carried together on one circuit How MPLS is used to prioritize and manage IP packets "MPLS services" vs. the Internet Detailed Course Outline 1. Introduction Course introduction and overview 2. Carrier Packet Network Basics Customer Edge, Provider Edge, Access and Network Core 3. Service Level Agreements Contractual specification: Traffic Profile and Class of Service 4. Virtual Circuits Traffic Classes and pre-determined routes 5. QoS Requirement for Voice over IP How packetized voice works and what is needed 6. MPLS MPLS components, LER, LSP, LSR jargon, basic operation 7. TCP/IP over MPLS Tracing a file transfer through the equipment and protocols Implementing Virtual Private LAN Service with MPLS 8. Differentiated Classes of Service using MPLS Different transmission characteristics for different traffic 9. Integration and Convergence using MPLS Saving money with Integrated Access: all traffic on one network technology 10. Managing Aggregates of Traffic with MPLS Label Stacking Aggregating similar traffic to be managed as a single entity 11. MPLS Service vs. Internet SD-WAN Service Understanding the key difference: guarantees or not. The Future. Download the Course Brochure PDF for the full detailed description: https://www.teracomtraining.com/pdfs/teracom-brochure-ctns.pdf </video> <video> LANs, VLANs, Wireless and Optical Ethernet - Course Introduction Description: Watch in full quality: https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2211 Course 2211 LANs, VLANs, Wireless and Optical Ethernet: MAC Addresses • MAC Frames • Layer 2 Switches • VLANs • Ethernet on Copper • 1000BASE-T • Power over Ethernet • Cable Categories • Office Wiring Plan • Wireless Ethernet (Wi-Fi) • Optical Ethernet • Ethernet in the Core, MANs and PONs • Fiber Types • SFP Transceivers • Field Installation This course is all about Ethernet: the fundamentals, equipment and implementations including twisted-pair copper cables, wireless and fiber, in-building, in the network core, MANs and PONs. You'll understand the jargon and buzzwords, the underlying ideas, and how it all works together to form the physical basis of the network that used to be called the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), now being absorbed Pac-Man style by The Internet, becoming the IP Packet-Switched Telecommunications Network (IP‑PSTN). … in plain English. 1. Course Introduction 2. Broadcast Domains, MAC Addresses and MAC Frames 3. LAN Switches a.k.a. Layer 2 Switches 4. VLANs 5. 802 Physical Standards: 802.3 Twisted Pair and 802.11 Wi-Fi 6. Twisted-Pair LAN Cables, Wiring Plan and Switch Hierarchy 7. Optical Ethernet and Fiber Links Ethernet implements the equivalent of pipe physically connecting two devices. IP and MPLS are used to move packets from one pipe to another. They are covered in other courses. Ethernet and its MAC frames has fulfilled one of the Holy Grails of telecom, packaging everything the same way on all kind of links: copper wire, fiber and wireless - in the core of the network, in the access network, and in the customer premise. Standardizing on MAC frames across the board makes interworking simpler, more reliable and cheaper to implement. As a telecom engineer, I stand back in awe and admire. We’ll begin with the fundamental idea of a broadcast domain, first implemented with a bus cable. We’ll understand LAN interfaces, and how each interface has a hard-coded MAC addresses, and how the address field in a MAC frame is used to indicate for whom a frame is intended, since all stations in a broadcast domain receive it. We’ll then understand how the bus is now inside a box called an Ethernet switch, LAN switch or Layer 2 switch, how the switch learns the MAC address of each station, and how the LAN switch forwards MAC frames to one or more stations. Then we’ll go over the important idea of VLANs, which are broadcast domains defined in software, and how VLANs can be used to segregate traffic by device type and by work area at the enterprise level, and segregate traffic by customer at the carrier level. You’ll learn about the many standards for implementing Ethernet, 802.3 from the original 10BASE-5 to 1000BASE-T on Categories of twisted-pair cables, 802.11 wireless LANs and Wi-Fi certification. We’ll finish with a compressive lesson on Optical Ethernet: Ethernet on fiber, which is the basis of today’s telecom network. You’ll learn how bits are represented on fiber, how fiber cables are installed underground, and how fiber splicing is used to connect bulk fiber to equipment. We’ll review Optical Ethernet standards from 1 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s. - The objectives of this course are to understand: The idea of a broadcast domain. The idea of a MAC addresses to identify a LAN interface on a station in a broadcast domain. What MAC frames are, and what purpose they serve. What a LAN switch is, and what it does. How VLANs can be used to segregate devices into different broadcast domains. The IEEE 802 series of standards: The 802.3 standard and communicating MAC frames at 10 Mb/s on coaxial cables to Gigabit Ethernet on copper and fiber. What the code 1000BASE-T means. MAC frames over the Ether, a.k.a. Wi-Fi, the 2.4 and 5 GHz unlicensed bands, and the fundamentals of how the bits in MAC frames are communicated using radio carrier frequencies. Wiring Ethernet to the work area with Cat 5, Cat 5e and Cat 6 twisted-pair copper-wire cables. Wiring closets and Layer 2 aggregation switches. What Optical Ethernet is, and how it is the building block of telecom networks, including Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), carrier MPLS networks, and Passive Optical Networks (PONs) for fiber to the home. The fundamentals of how the bits in MAC frames are communicated using light guided in glass tubes. How fiber cables are deployed and connected to equipment at each end. What designations like 100GBASE-ER4 mean. For more information, and to watch this in full quality, please visit https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm Cheers! </video> <video> Telecom Course: The PSTN - Course Introduction. Telecommunications Training Online Description: Watch in full quality: https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2201 Course 2201 The PSTN: Loops and Trunks • POTS • Circuit-Switching • LECs, CLECs and IXCs • Analog • Voiceband • DTMF • SS7 One cornerstone of a full, rounded base of knowledge of telecommunications is the structure and operation of the Public Switched Telephone Network, built over the past 135 years, still in operation in every country on earth – knowledge necessary for connecting the PSTN to, and steadily replacing the PSTN with IP telecom technologies. In this course, you'll build a solid understanding of the fundamentals of the telephone system: Customer Premise and Central Office, loops, trunks, remotes, circuit switching and how a telephone call is connected end-to-end. We'll cover LECs, CLECs and IXCs, sound, analog and the voiceband, twisted pair, DTMF and SS7. Updated for the 2020s. Course Lessons 1. Introduction 2. History of Telecommunications (USA and Canada) 3. The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) 4. Analog Circuits and Sound 5. The Voiceband 6. Plain Ordinary Telephone Service (POTS) 7. Signaling: Pulse Dialing and Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) 8. Signaling System 7 (SS7) Based on Teracom's famous Course 101, tuned and refined over the course of more than 20 years of instructor-led training, we'll cut through the jargon to demystify telephony and the telephone system, explaining the jargon and buzzwords, the underlying ideas, and how it all works together… in plain English. Featuring many photos of actual equipment both inside a Central Office and in the outside plant, this multimedia course is an excellent way to get up to speed on traditional telephony. Detailed Description In this online telecommunications course, we begin with a history lesson, understanding how and why telephone networks and the companies that provide them are organized into local access and inter-city transmission, or as we will see, Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) and Inter-Exchange Carriers (IXCs). Then we will establish a basic model for the PSTN and understand its main components: Customer Premise, Central Office, loop, trunk, outside plant, circuit switching, attenuation, loop length, remotes, and why knowledge of the characteristics of the loop remains essential knowledge even though we are moving to Voice over IP. Next, we'll cover aspects of telephony and Plain Ordinary Telephone Service, including analog, the voiceband, twisted pair, supervision and signaling including DTMF. The course is completed with an overview of SS7, the control system for the telephone network in the US and Canada. What You Will Learn On completion of this telecommunications course online, you will be able to draw a model of the Public Switched Telephone Network, explain its core-and-edge architecture, identify components and technologies, along with the big picture, including: - Why telecom networks are divided into local access wiring and long-distance transmission - The founding, breakup and re-emergence of AT&T in the US; TELUS and Bell in Canada - A basic model for the PSTN and its main components - Loops, why they are called loops and why there is a maximum loop length - The outside plant - Circuit-switching - Central Office and Customer Premise - How and why remotes are used; fiber to the neighborhood - Plain Ordinary Telephone Service - What analog is, and how it relates to copper wires, electricity, circuits and sound - How microphones and speakers work - The human hearing range - Whether trees falling in the forest if no-one is there to hear them cause a sound - The voiceband - Why and how the telephone system can limit frequencies to the voiceband - Why two wires are used - Why they are twisted together (twisted pair) - Tip and ring, -48 volts - Supervision, dial tone, ringing, lightning protection - Dial-up - Touch-tone and DTMF - Basics of SS7 - Call routing between carriers using SS7 Detailed Course Outline 1. Introduction Course introduction and overview 2. History of Telecommunications Local phone companies, long distance; US: Bell System, breakup, LECs and IXCs; Canada 3. The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Loops and trunks, CO, customer premise, circuit-switching, outside plant, loop length, remotes 4. Analog Circuits and Sound What analog means, microphones and speakers, copper wires and electricity, trees falling in the forest 5. The Voiceband Reproducing thoughts vs. reproducing sound, frequency range, filters, limitations 6. Plain Ordinary Telephone Service (POTS) Twisted pair, analogs on two wires, dial tone, ringing, supervision, lightning protection 7. Signaling: Pulse Dialing and DTMF Dial-up, make-or-break signaling, touch-tone, DTMF, in-band signaling 8. Signaling System 7 (SS7) Control system for the PSTN, SCPs and SSPs, call routing between carriers Download the Course Brochure PDF: https://www.teracomtraining.com/pdfs/teracom-brochure-ctns.pdf </video> <video> Wi-Fi and 802.11 Wireless LANs - TCO Certification Course Wireless Telecommunications Lesson 9 Description: Watch in full quality: https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2206 Course 2206 Wireless Telecommunications Lesson 9. Wi-Fi: 802.11 Wireless LANs. In this lesson, we provide an overview of the 802.11 wireless LAN standards, Wi-Fi and hotspots. We concentrate on understanding the variations of 802.11, the frequency bands they operate in, bit rates to be expected, propagation issues, and Wi-Fi 6, which is 802.11ax, the first to implement OFDMA. Wireless Telecommunications is a comprehensive up-to-date course for non-engineering professionals on wireless, including radio fundamentals, cellular and mobile telecommunications, LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi and satellites for non-engineering professionals. Taking this course, you will develop a solid understanding of the fundamental principles of radio, mobility and cellular, network components and operation, digital radio, mobile phone calls and mobile Internet access, spectrum-sharing technologies like OFDM, and LTE and 5G. In addition, you will get up to speed on the components, operation and latest standards for Wi-Fi, and the essentials of satellite communications. We'll cut through the jargon to demystify wireless, explaining the fundamentals of cellular and mobility, the buzzwords, the network, technologies and generations, the underlying ideas, and how it all works together... in plain English. Course Lessons 1. Introduction 2. Mobile Network Components, Jargon and Operation 3. Cellular Principles 4. PSTN Phone Calls using the Phone App: Voice Minutes 5. Mobile Internet: Data Plan 6. Spectrum-Sharing: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDM 7. 4G LTE: Mobile Broadband new - updated 8. 5G New Radio: Enhanced Mobile Broadband, IoT Communications new 9. Wi-Fi: 802.11 Wireless LANs new - updated (this one!) 10. Communication Satellites Since 802.11 is wireless LANs, there are a number of associated topics: LAN frames, also called MAC frames, MAC addresses, LAN switches, IP addresses, routers and network address translation. Those topics are covered in other courses, particularly “Ethernet, LANs and VLANs”, “Introduction to Datacom and Networking” and “IP Networks, Routers and Addresses”. In this course, we concentrate on radio. </video> <video> Mobile Network Operators, MVNOs and Roaming - CWA Course 2232 Lesson 1471 Description: Watch in full quality https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2232. This is the seventh lesson in the TCO CWA Certified Wireless Analyst Course 2232 Mobile Communications, summarizing the knowledge of mobility before moving to generations and technologies like LTE and 5G OFDMA in subsequent lessons. The TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification Package delivers the core technical knowledge needed by anyone serious in the wireless business today. Visit https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses-certification/certified-wireless-analyst-cwa.htm for information and registration. With the high-quality self-paced courses in the CWA Certification package, you'll gain broad knowledge spanning: - Radio fundamentals and spectrum, - Digital radio and QAM modems, - Propagation, penetration and fading - Mobility concepts and network design and operation, - Radio technologies: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and LTE and 5G’s OFDMA, - 5G mmWave ultra-broadband - and 5G low bitrate for IoT, - Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), the first full-duplex Wi-Fi, - 3.5 GHz Broadband wireless home Internet, - Point-to-point microwave, - Low Earth Orbit satellites and more ... and TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification with Personalized Letter of Reference to prove it! Body language conveys a surprisingly large amount of information. Students who find they learn more from a person than from computer-generated images will appreciate that many of the lessons are video, taught to you by our charming and entertaining instructor directly into the camera, with overlaid bullets and graphics on-screen. As close as you can get to private lessons from the Course Director without actually being there! The CWA Study Guide is an essential enhancement to the TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification Package. The CWA Study Guide contains detailed notes and graphics corresponding exactly to the CWA lessons... therefore containing all of the answers to the CWA exam questions! Having a companion reference textbook avoids the need to take notes, and greatly enhances learning and retention, helping you learn and burn the concepts into the neurons of your brain. CWA Study Guide Available in eBook, softcover and hardcover: eBook from Google https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=rppjEAAAQBAJ eBook from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V86LSGY eBook from Apple https://books.apple.com/us/book/tco-cwa-study-guide/id1613606144?ls=1 softcover https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Analyst-Study-Guide-dp-1894887689/dp/1894887689/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Analyst-Study-Guide-dp-1894887859/dp/1894887859/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= </video> <video> Wireless Spectrum and Radio Bands: CWA Course 2231 Lesson 1202 Description: Watch in full quality https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2232. TCO CWA Certified Wireless Analyst Course 2231 Lesson 1202 Wireless Spectrum and Radio Bands is the second course in the CWA Certification Package. Brand-new lesson, hot off the press! Includes discussion of C-band allocation for 5G. This lengthy lesson has discussion markers so you don't have to watch it all at once. 7:29 The Ugliness When There's Not Enough Capacity is strongly recommended. The TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification Courses deliver the core technical knowledge needed by anyone serious in the wireless business today. With high-quality self-paced courses, you'll gain broad knowledge spanning radio and spectrum fundamentals, digital radio and QAM modems, mobility concepts and network design, radio technologies from AMPS to LTE and 5G’s OFDMA, 5G mmWave ultra-broadband, and low power, low bitrate 5G for IoT, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), broadband wireless Internet, point-to-point microwave, Low Earth Orbit satellites and more ... and TCO Certified Wireless Analyst certification to prove it! Chapters in This Lesson 0:00 Wireless Spectrum and Radio Bands 1:13 Allocations and Allotments 1:57 AM and CB Radio 2.34 Television Channels 3:10 Analog UHF TV and TV Dinners 5:01 Repurposing Channel 38 - 69 Allocations 5:44 600 MHz Band 7:29 The Ugliness When There's Not Enough Capacity 8:38 IoT Sensors 9:09 700 MHz Band 11:02 9/11, Upper 700 MHz Public Safety Band and FirstNet 13:34 800 MHz Band 13:53 900 MHz Unlicensed ISM Band 14:24 GSM Bands in "Europe" 14:45 1900 MHz 2G PCS Band 15:34 2.4 GHz Unlicensed Band and Microwave Ovens 16:05 5 GHz U-NII Unlicensed Bands 16:16 2.5 GHz Band 16:42 3.5 GHz Fixed Broadband Wireless Home Internet 18:00 3.7 GHz C-Band for 5G 18:56 30 GHz Millimeter-wave Ultra-Broadband 5G 19:48 5G, The ECO Lane, and Highway Platoons 20:22 The Tradeoff Between Capacity and Transmission Characteristics ~ The TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification Package delivers the core technical knowledge needed by anyone serious in the wireless business today. Visit https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses-certification/certified-wireless-analyst-cwa.htm for information and registration. With the high-quality self-paced courses in the CWA Certification package, you'll gain broad knowledge spanning: - Radio fundamentals and spectrum, - Digital radio and QAM modems, - Propagation, penetration and fading - Mobility concepts and network design and operation, - Radio technologies: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and LTE and 5G’s OFDMA, - 5G mmWave ultra-broadband - and 5G low bitrate for IoT, - Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), the first full-duplex Wi-Fi, - 3.5 GHz Broadband wireless home Internet, - Point-to-point microwave, - Low Earth Orbit satellites and more ... and TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification with Personalized Letter of Reference to prove it! Body language conveys a surprisingly large amount of information. Students who find they learn more from a person than from computer-generated images will appreciate that many of the lessons are video, taught to you by our charming and entertaining instructor directly into the camera, with overlaid bullets and graphics on-screen. As close as you can get to private lessons from the Course Director without actually being there! The CWA Study Guide is an essential enhancement to the TCO Certified Wireless Analyst Certification Package. The CWA Study Guide contains detailed notes and graphics corresponding exactly to the CWA lessons... therefore containing all of the answers to the CWA exam questions! Having a companion reference textbook avoids the need to take notes, and greatly enhances learning and retention, helping you learn and burn the concepts into the neurons of your brain. CWA Study Guide Available in eBook, softcover and hardcover: eBook from Google https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=rppjEAAAQBAJ eBook from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V86LSGY eBook from Apple https://books.apple.com/us/book/tco-cwa-study-guide/id1613606144?ls=1 softcover https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Analyst-Study-Guide-dp-1894887689/dp/1894887689/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Analyst-Study-Guide-dp-1894887859/dp/1894887859/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= </video> <video> Twisted-Pair LAN Cables, Wiring Plan and Switch Hierarchy - Course 2211 Lesson 6 Description: Watch in full quality: https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2211 Course 2211 LANs, VLANs, Wireless and Optical Ethernet, Lesson 6 (full) MAC Addresses • MAC Frames • Layer 2 Switches • VLANs • Ethernet on Copper • 1000BASE-T • Power over Ethernet • Cable Categories • Office Wiring Plan • Wireless Ethernet (Wi-Fi) • Optical Ethernet • Ethernet in the Core, MANs and PONs • Fiber Types • SFP Transceivers • Field Installation This course is all about Ethernet: the fundamentals, equipment and implementations including twisted-pair copper cables, wireless and fiber, in-building, in the network core, MANs and PONs. You'll understand the jargon and buzzwords, the underlying ideas, and how it all works together to form the physical basis of the network that used to be called the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), now being absorbed Pac-Man style by The Internet, becoming the IP Packet-Switched Telecommunications Network (IP‑PSTN). … in plain English. 1. Course Introduction 2. Broadcast Domains, MAC Addresses and MAC Frames 3. LAN Switches a.k.a. Layer 2 Switches 4. VLANs 5. 802 Physical Standards: 802.3 Twisted Pair and 802.11 Wi-Fi 6. Twisted-Pair LAN Cables, Wiring Plan and Switch Hierarchy 7. Optical Ethernet and Fiber Links Ethernet implements the equivalent of pipe physically connecting two devices. IP and MPLS are used to move packets from one pipe to another. They are covered in other courses. Ethernet and its MAC frames has fulfilled one of the Holy Grails of telecom, packaging everything the same way on all kind of links: copper wire, fiber and wireless - in the core of the network, in the access network, and in the customer premise. Standardizing on MAC frames across the board makes interworking simpler, more reliable and cheaper to implement. As a telecom engineer, I stand back in awe and admire. We’ll begin with the fundamental idea of a broadcast domain, first implemented with a bus cable. We’ll understand LAN interfaces, and how each interface has a hard-coded MAC addresses, and how the address field in a MAC frame is used to indicate for whom a frame is intended, since all stations in a broadcast domain receive it. We’ll then understand how the bus is now inside a box called an Ethernet switch, LAN switch or Layer 2 switch, how the switch learns the MAC address of each station, and how the LAN switch forwards MAC frames to one or more stations. Then we’ll go over the important idea of VLANs, which are broadcast domains defined in software, and how VLANs can be used to segregate traffic by device type and by work area at the enterprise level, and segregate traffic by customer at the carrier level. You’ll learn about the many standards for implementing Ethernet, 802.3 from the original 10BASE-5 to 1000BASE-T on Categories of twisted-pair cables, 802.11 wireless LANs and Wi-Fi certification. We’ll finish with a compressive lesson on Optical Ethernet: Ethernet on fiber, which is the basis of today’s telecom network. You’ll learn how bits are represented on fiber, how fiber cables are installed underground, and how fiber splicing is used to connect bulk fiber to equipment. We’ll review Optical Ethernet standards from 1 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s. The objectives of this course are to understand: The idea of a broadcast domain. The idea of a MAC addresses to identify a LAN interface on a station in a broadcast domain. What MAC frames are, and what purpose they serve. What a LAN switch is, and what it does. How VLANs can be used to segregate devices into different broadcast domains. The IEEE 802 series of standards: The 802.3 standard and communicating MAC frames at 10 Mb/s on coaxial cables to Gigabit Ethernet on copper and fiber. What the code 1000BASE-T means. MAC frames over the Ether, a.k.a. Wi-Fi, the 2.4 and 5 GHz unlicensed bands, and the fundamentals of how the bits in MAC frames are communicated using radio carrier frequencies. Wiring Ethernet to the work area with Cat 5, Cat 5e and Cat 6 twisted-pair copper-wire cables. Wiring closets and Layer 2 aggregation switches. What Optical Ethernet is, and how it is the building block of telecom networks, including Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), carrier MPLS networks, and Passive Optical Networks (PONs) for fiber to the home. The fundamentals of how the bits in MAC frames are communicated using light guided in glass tubes. How fiber cables are deployed and connected to equipment at each end. What designations like 100GBASE-ER4 mean. For more information, and to watch this in full quality, please visit https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm Cheers! </video> <video> The Last Mile Description: Watch in full quality: https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2241 CTNS Course 2241 Broadband Converged IP Telecommunications Lesson 7 Network Access: The Last Mile Go to the link above to watch the original version from the myTeracom LMS... the buttons appearing in this youTube video will work... Here for your pleasure is Lesson 7 Network Access: The Last Mile This lesson is dedicated to network access technologies, called the last mile, the physical connection between the user and the network; the face of the telecom network to users. We group access technologies by physical medium: copper, fiber and wireless. - Copper includes twisted pair loops, LAN cables and old-fashioned T1s, as well as coaxial cable CATV infrastructure. - Fiber means Optical Ethernet, shared links for residences via Passive Optical Networks and dedicated links for businesses. - Wireless includes 4G LTE and 5G, used for both fixed and mobile applications, and satellites. Service is usually billed on a per-access basis, and usually coupled with a network address. There are many types of access circuits, all covered in detail in CTNS courses. To get started, in this first CTNS course, we provide an overview by technology: copper, fiber and wireless. This is Lesson 7 of 11 in Course 2241 Broadband Converged IP Telecommunications https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2241 2241 Broadband Converged IP Telecommunications - Course Outline Broadband Converged IP Telecommunications is the first course in the TCO CTNS Certification Package from Teracom Training Institute. It is a high-level introduction to all aspects of modern IP telecommunications; a big-picture view to begin building a structured base of knowledge in telecom. 1. Introduction Course introduction and overview. 2. Convergence One network carrying all services: telephone, video and Internet. Channels vs. packets. 3. Broadband Bandwidth, and how much “broad” might be 4. Broadband Converged IP Telecommunications Model Graphical model identifying all the main aspects of telecommunications and how they relate 5. The Network Core High-capacity, high-availability connections between aggregation centers. Fiber rings. 6. Network Protocols: Ethernet, IP and MPLS Ethernet moves packets point-to-point. IP address is the final destination. MPLS manages flows. 7. Network Access: The Last Mile Twisted pair, hybrid fiber-coax, Passive Optical Network, Optical Ethernet, cellular, satellite 8. Anatomy of a Service Network access technology, network connection type and billing agreement 9. Services: Residential, Business and Wholesale Comprehensive review of the main dollar-value services in each sector 10. Network Equipment Layer 2 switches, IP routers, MPLS routers, FDM and TDM multiplexers, wavelength cross connects 11. Carrier Network Interconnect Tariffed switched-access for calls involving a PSTN phone number; Internet Exchange transit and peering Prerequisites None. Course 2241 Broadband Converged IP Telecommunications is the first course in the CTNS Certification Package. https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses-certification/teracom-overview-ctns.htm </video> <video> Wireless Telecommunications - Course Introduction. TCO CTNS Course 2206 Description: Watch in full quality: https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2206 Wireless Telecommunications is a comprehensive course on wireless, including radio fundamentals, cellular and mobile telecommunications, LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and more. Included in TCO CTNS, CTA and CTSME Telecommunications Certification Packages: https://www.teracomtraining.com/certification.htm Topics: Mobile Network Fundamentals • Cellular Principles • Digitized Voice over Radio • Mobile Internet • FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and OFDM • 4G LTE and OFDMA • 5G: New Spectrum, Ultra-Broadband and IoT • Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax • Communication Satellites Wireless Telecommunications is a comprehensive up-to-date course on cellular plus Wi-Fi and satellites for non-engineering professionals. Taking this course, you will develop a solid understanding of the fundamental principles of radio, mobility and cellular, network components and operation, digital radio, mobile phone calls and mobile Internet access, spectrum-sharing technologies like OFDM, and LTE and 5G. In addition, you will get up to speed on the components, operation and latest standards for Wi-Fi, and the essentials of satellite communications. We'll cut through the jargon to demystify wireless, explaining the fundamentals of cellular and mobility, the buzzwords, the network, technologies and generations, the underlying ideas, and how it all works together... in plain English. Course Lessons 1. Introduction 2. Mobile Network Components, Jargon and Operation 3. Cellular Principles 4. PSTN Phone Calls using the Phone App: Voice Minutes 5. Mobile Internet: Data Plan 6. Spectrum-Sharing: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDM 7. 4G LTE: Mobile Broadband new - updated 8. 5G New Radio: Enhanced Mobile Broadband, IoT Communications new 9. Wi-Fi: 802.11 Wireless LANs new - updated 10. Communication Satellites Course Overview We begin with basic concepts and terminology involved in mobile networks, including base stations and transceivers, mobile switches and backhaul, handoffs, cellular radio concepts and digital radio concepts. You'll understand how a phone call connects from a cell phone to a landline, and the different methods of allowing other devices to use a smartphone's mobile Internet connection. Without bogging down on details, we'll review spectrum-sharing technologies: FDMA for first generation; 2G GSM/TDMA, 3G CDMA and 4G and 5G OFDM. We'll take some time to understand how modems represent bits on subcarriers, and how OFDMA is used in 4G and 5G to dynamically assign subcarrier(s) to users. This is followed with Wi-Fi, or more precisely, 802.11 wireless LANs: the system components, frequency bands, bitrates and coverage for all of the versions up to Wi-Fi 6 which is 802.11ax, the first Wi-Fi to implement full-duplex communications with multiple simultaneous devices using OFDMA and a theoretical 9.6 Gb/s. We'll also cover WPA-2 and WPA-3 security. The course is completed with communications satellites, in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit and Low Earth Orbit, including Iridium Next and Starlink. What You Will Learn You'll gain a solid understanding of the key principles of wireless and mobile networks: • Radio fundamentals • Mobile network components and operation • Coverage, capacity and mobility • Why cellular radio systems are used • Registration and handoffs • Digitized voice over radio for PSTN phone calls • Mobile Internet: "Data Plan" • Cellular technologies: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDM • 4G LTE and OFDMA • 5G: new spectrum, more b/s, ultra-broadband and IoT • Wi-Fi: 802.11 wireless LANs, Wi-Fi 6 / 802.11ax, Wi-Fi security • GEO and LEO satellite communications • Starlink’s service model Learning Objectives On completion of this course, you will be able to: • Describe the basic concepts of a mobile communication system, identifying the principal components, the objectives of coverage, capacity and mobility, and the operation including registration and handoffs. • Explain what “cellular” means and why radio systems are designed as cellular systems. • Explain how digital cellular can be used for what used to be called “data” (now basically Internet access), using a phone as a tethered modem to connect a computer for Internet access, using a phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot for other computers, or of course surfing the web and using apps directly from a smartphone. • Explain the principles and describe the operation of the different spectrum-sharing technologies: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and OFDM. • Define the term subcarrier, how subcarriers are used, and OFDMA. • Identify the spectrum 5G will be deployed on and use cases for each. • Explain the basics of 802.11 wireless LANs, Wi-Fi and hotspots and compare and contrast that to cellular radio. • Describe the two basic strategies for communication satellites and the pros and cons of each. Visit https://www.teracomtraining.com/online-courses.htm#2206 for more information and another free lesson! Cheers! </video>

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