Description
This is the second course in a two-part series on Basic Telecommunications for the Certified in Convergent Network Technologies (CCNT) curriculum. This course focuses on transmission networks, switching, and signaling.
Audience
The intended audience for this course includes anyone who wants to remain current in the data and telecommunications industries, including Network Engineers, Network Administrators, Telecommunications Technicians, Data/Internet/Telecommunications Sales Professionals, Telecom Sales Engineers, IT/Data Product Managers, and Telecom Account Managers. This course would also benefit anyone taking advanced vendor-neutral or product-specific certification programs. This course will prepare candidates for the Basic Telecommunications module of the CCNT exam. Learners should have taken the first part of the series, course 87501.
Prerequisites
(Currently no course prerequisite information)
Objective
- Identify features and functions of telecommunication networks.
- Match current network structure components with their features.
- Identify features and functions of cellular networks.
- Identify features and functions of signaling systems.
- Identify types of signaling.
- Identify features and functions of supervisory signaling.
Topics Include
Unit 1: Networks and Transmission - Identify features and functions of telecommunication networks.
- Match current network structure components with their features.
- Identify features and functions of cellular networks.
- Identify characteristics of intranets and extranets.
- Identify the main protocols in the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite.
- Identify the functions of an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
- Identify guidelines for internetworking.
- Identify features and functions of Internet telephony networks.
- Identify features and functions of video transmission.
- Identify features and functions of transmission media.
- Identify features and functions of two-channel media.
- Match multi-circuit media methods with their descriptions.
- Identify features and functions of multi-circuit radio.
- Identify features of multi-circuit fiber optic cable.
Unit 2: Signaling and Switching - Identify features and functions of signaling systems.
- Identify types of signaling.
- Identify features and functions of supervisory signaling.
- Identify features and functions of in-band interswitch signaling.
- Identify features of digital signaling processes.
- Identify features of the North American Dialing Plan (NADP).
- Identify features and functions of common channel signaling (CCS).
- Identify features and functions of Signaling System 7 (SS7).
- Identify features and functions of analog switching.
- Identify features and functions of digital switching.
- Identify features and functions of digital time division switching (TDS).
- Identify features and functions of digital space division switching (SDS).
- Identify features and functions of optical switching.
- Match cellular network components with their functions.
- Match cellular network hierarchy levels with the geographical area they cover.
- Identify features of cellular networks.
Duration
8
Minimum Requirements
The CDROM version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
- At least a double speed CDROM drive.
- An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).
The network version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
Media
CDROM
|
