Telecommunications: Introduction

Course Overview

With voice and data merging, and new markets, services and applications opening up as a result, this 2 day course is designed to provide delegates new to telecommunications with a complete overview of the past, the present and the future of telecommunications.

Audience

The course is open to anybody requiring an introduction to the subject including those from a data background who want to better understand telecommunications, or those entering the telecommunications market for the first time.

Skills Gained

This course will enable delegates to:

• Develop the requisite knowledge to cope with more advanced telecommunications subjects.
• Facilitate a better appreciation and understanding of how the technology is applied in the working environment.
• Explain the different components of a telecommunications infrastructure from addressing through routing and signalling to networking.

Prerequisites

Some experience of general IT terminology would be beneficial.

Course Outline

• Introduction
• Voice and Data Communications
• Telephone Network Components and Functions
• Public and Private Networks
• Transmission
• Analogue and Digital Transmission
• ISDN
• Cables
• Switches
• Signalling
• Signalling Systems
• Routing
• Addressing
• Network Management
• Current Developments