Overview

Week Topic
1
The structure of the telecommunications network
Placement tests
2
Transmission Media and wiring
Analog and digital voice
Analog and Digital Components
Circuit and Packet (IP) switching
3
Customer Premise Equipment (CPE)
PBX and Key Systems, Voice Processing
Carrier Systems:
Sonet/SDH, Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS
4
Technologies at the edge of the network
T1/DS1, DSL, Cable, ISDN
5
Carrier Systems:
Provisioning, Signaling, Numbering
6
Internet Technologies
7
Voice over IP
Standards and Operations
8
Capacity Planning
9
Terrestrial Wireless Communications
10
Satellite Communications

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