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Telephony, the Reform Act, PSTN and Current Trends
- Current state of telephony
- Trends driving the Telecommunications industry
- History of the Bell System
- The impact of Telecommunication Reform Act of 1996
- Evolution of PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network),
- Regulation and the effects of competition, divestiture, INTER and INTRA LATA traffic and
access charges
Switching, Signaling and Deregulation
- Telephone switching and the types of equipment in a CO
- An introduction to both in-band and out-of-band signaling and the SS7 network
- SS7 impact on future technologies
- Designation of network locations and route traffic to specific switch locations
- Effects of deregulation on telephone switching and the complexities
- Business in a multi-vendor environment
- Intelligent Network (IN)
- Advanced Intelligent Networks (AIN)
Traffic Engineering
- Traffic engineering
- What is an Erlang?
- The telecommunications unit Erlang, and it's application in teletraffic theory
- Traffic System Design
- Erlang traffic tables and explanations of various models including Erlang B, Erlang C, Engset
and Poisson (Molina)
- Dimensioning trunk groups
- Traffic carried by that trunk group
- Methods of optimizing the number of lines in a trunk group
Types of traffic measurements
- Queuing theory
- Tables used to design trunk networks
- Problems on traffic design and trunk group efficiency.
- Fundamentals and applications of intelligent networks
- Advanced intelligent networks
- Wireless networks and how they differ from facility-based networks
Transmission, Cellular, Internet and Voice Applications
- Transmission systems fundamentals
- Components and capacity
- Analog and digital transmission principles
- Multiplexing
- T1 & T3 formats and applications
- Data communications
- The Internet
- TCP/IP fundamentals
- xDSL and Cable Modems fundamentals
- Frame Relay fundamentals
- ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) fundamentals
- Fiber Optic networks
- SONET standards, ring architecture and network survivability
- DWDM fundamentals
- VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
- VToA (Voice Technology over ATM)
- Video technology
- Worldwide TV standards
- Cable TV systems and head-end trunking.
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