Introduction to Broadband Converged IP Telecommunications

Introduction to Broadband Converged IP Telecommunications
Convergence • Broadband • Network Core and Edge • Protocols • Last Mile Network Access • Residential, Business and Wholesale Services • Network Equipment • Carrier Connections

A high-level wide-ranging introduction to the world of modern telecommunications.  The selection of topics, their order of presentation and plain-English explanations are proven content, based on instructor-led training courses that are constantly updated to be the core knowledge required in the business.

This first Telecom module is based on the first chapter of Teracom Training Institute’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.  

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 modules, we’ll take another pass and drill deeper into key areas like Wireless, VoIP, PSTN, Ethernet, IP and MPLS.  

We begin with a comprehensive big-picture introduction to broadband telecom: the concepts of convergence and broadband, today’s telecom network, the parts of the network, the three key technologies: Ethernet, IP and MPLS, what they are and what each does.  You’ll learn how a circuit is implemented end-to-end, and identify today’s standard residential, business and wholesale services.

Prerequisites: None.

Detailed Outline
Telecom Module 1

1 Introduction to Broadband Converged IP Telecommunications
1.1 History of Telecommunications
.... 1.1.1  Invention of the Telephone
.... 1.1.2  Local Phone Companies
.... 1.1.3  The Bell System
.... 1.1.4  The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
.... 1.1.5  Consolidation
.... 1.1.6  Broadband Carriers
.... 1.1.7  Canadian Telegraph Companies
.... 1.1.8  Canadian Telephone Companies
.... 1.1.9  The Rest of the World
.... 1.1.10  New Technologies and New Players
1.2 Convergence
.... 1.2.1  Network Sharing Strategies
.... 1.2.2  ISDN: Fail
.... 1.2.3  ATM: Fail
.... 1.2.4  IP: Third Time is the Charm
1.3 Broadband
.... 1.3.1  How Many Bits per Second is “Broadband”?
.... 1.3.2  4K Guilty Dog Videos
.... 1.3.3  Universal Service
1.4 Today’s Converged Telecom Network
.... 1.4.1  Common Carriers
.... 1.4.2  Core
.... 1.4.3  Access
.... 1.4.4  Edge
.... 1.4.5  Residential, Business and Wholesale Services
.... 1.4.6  Data Centers
1.5 The Network Core
.... 1.5.1  Rings
1.6 Network Protocols: Ethernet, IP and MPLS
.... 1.6.1  Optical Ethernet Links
.... 1.6.2  IP Packet Routing Between Links
.... 1.6.3  MPLS Traffic Management
1.7 Network Access: The Last Mile
.... 1.7.1  Twisted Pair Loops
.... 1.7.2  Coax
.... 1.7.3  Fiber to the Residenc.... PONs
.... 1.7.4  Wireless: Fixed and Mobile
1.8 Anatomy o.... Service
.... 1.8.1  Access Circuits
.... 1.8.2  Circuit-Terminating Equipment
.... 1.8.3  Network Connection Type
1.9 Inside the Network Cloud
.... 1.9.1  Core
.... 1.9.2  Edge
1.10 Network Edge Equipment
.... 1.10.1  Multiplexers: TDM, FDM and WDM
.... 1.10.2  Legacy Circuit Switches
.... 1.10.3  Route.... Laye.... Switch
1.11 Interconnect to Other Carriers
.... 1.11.1  The ILEC
.... 1.11.2  Toll Switches, Toll Centers and POPs
.... 1.11.3  Switched Access Tariff
.... 1.11.4  Internet Traffic Interconnections
.... 1.11.5  Business Service Interconnections
1.12 Services
.... 1.12.1  Residential Services
.... 1.12.2  Business Services
.... 1.12.3  Whole