Teracom Fundamentals of Telecom DVD training

It all starts with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Plain Ordinary Telephone Service (POTS).We’ll begin with the basics of telephony: loops, trunks, circuits, analog, the voiceband… fundamentals that are key
to understanding of newer technologies and services.To complete the picture, we take a practical journey through different types of equipment. We'll review switches,PBXs, Centrex, multiplexers and routers, as well as ancillary equipment like ACDs, voice mail and interactive voice response (IVR) systems.With this framework in place, we'll review the telecommunications industry and understand the main players andcompetitors, how Local Exchange Carriers connect to Inter-Exchange Carriers and how CLECs fit into the picture.The topics in this video course - how the telephone system and industry work, provide the essential foundation on
which everything else, including digital communications, data circuits and networking are built.
In this video course, we drill into the technology a bit, to understand the concepts, standards and technologies for
actually transmitting voice calls from one place to another. We'll give you a real understanding of what "digital" actually means, and how it is implemented. We’ll explain what a "DS0" isand take a practical tour of digital circuits, including T1, T3, SONET and ISDN. At a high level, we'll see how voice, data and video can be integrated. Then, we'll take a closer look at how this is all actually done, with Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and digital carrier systems that are the technologies at the heart of telecommunications networks. Without getting bogged down on technical details, we'll provide you with a basic understanding of how transmission systems work,including T1 over copper wires and SONET over fiber.Most of the transmission systems we have in place were designed for digital voice communications using thesetechniques... but they are also used for data and networking. This video course provides you with the concreteknowledge of the telecommunication circuits necessary to a full understanding of data circuits and networkservices.