• Upon completion of this course attendees will:
• Understand the details of telecom networks and technologies
• Understand advanced data communications concepts
• Understand IP Networking
• Exploit the capabilities of next-generation networks
• Understand fixed and mobile wireless
• Exploit the capabilities of wireless networks
• Design and manage telecom converged network
• Leverage communication technologies and protocols for voice, data and video convergence
• Apply best practices to plan, design, implement and manage converged network

This course is designed to provide a technical overview for technical sales and marketing managers, data communications professionals, software engineers, network engineers, technicians, network design and information systems engineers.

• Understand the details of telecom networks and technologies
• Understand advanced data communications concepts
• Understand IP Networking
• Exploit the capabilities of next-generation networks
• Understand fixed and mobile wireless
• Exploit the capabilities of wireless networks
• Design and manage telecom converged network
• Leverage communication technologies and protocols for voice, data and video convergence
• Apply best practices to plan, design, implement and manage converged network
•  Current and future telecom market
• Major new trends in technology and regulation
• Access and transport technologies
• PSTN operations and topology
• Fiber optic transmission systems
• SONET/SDH and DWDM/WDM
• Cable
• SS7
• HFC, FTTN, FTTC and FTTB
• Convergence
• Integrated voice and data networks

Integrated voice and data networks

• Voice and data traffic measurements and engineering
• Network convergence
• Requirements of converged solutions
• VoIP, IPTV, unified messaging, video-on-demand and presence
• Transporting voice and video
• Converged network building blocks
• Working with IPv4 and IPv6
• Delivering End-to-End Quality of Service
• Defining Quality of Service (QoS)
• Moving from TDM to IP
• Core network services
• Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Unified Communications (UC)
• Next generation of voice and data services
• SIP, MGCP/MEGACO, SIGTRAN
• IMS
• IPTV
• MPLS TE and MPLS VPN
• IPv6
• cloud computing

Fixed and Mobile Networks

• GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• CDMA/CDMA2000/1xEV-DO
• WCDMA/UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+
• 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ad
• WiMAX
• LTE/EPC/EPS
• SATCOM and VSAT

Evolving Broadband Technologies

• Digital subscriber line (DSL) services
• Ethernet
• Power-line communication
• Broadband Over Powerline (BPL)
• Cable broadband
• Fiber optic based Broadband
• FTTH - Fiber-to-the-home
• FTTN - Fiber-to-the-node
• FTTC - Fiber-to-the-cabinet or fiber-to-the-curb
• FTTB - Fiber-to-the-building or Fiber-to-the-basement
• Active optical networks (AONs)
• Passive optical networks (PONs)
• Optical Network Terminal (ONT)
• Optical Network Unit (ONU)
• Optical line terminal (OLT)
• TDM-PON
• DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON or DPoE
• RFoG
• WDM-PON
• Long-Reach Optical Access Networks

Overview of Evolving Wireline Access Broadband Technologies

• Digital Subscriber Line
• xDSL Capabilities
• Cable Networks – Components and Architecture
• The DOCSIS
• Fiber Distribution
• Metro Ethernet
• Hybrid Fiber and Cable (HFC)
• Fiber to the Curb (FTTC)
• Fiber to the Home (FTTH)
• Passive Optical Networks (PON)
• PON Variants
• PON Components and Architectures

Overview of Broadband Optical networking

• FTTx
• Passive Optical Networks (PON)
• PON network architecture
• APON
• BPON
• GPON
• EPON
• GEPON
• CPON
• ITU-T G.983.x
• ITU-T G.984.x
• IEEE 802.3-2005 clauses 64 and 65
• Self-Defending networks
• Ethernet's ongoing evolution
• GigE
• Metro Ethernet and VPLS
• GMPLS
• Advanced optical and photonic

 Ethernet-Based Backhaul

• Backhaul Network Options and Operations
• Network architecture
• Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM)
• EFM over fiber
• EFM over copper
• EFM over passive optical network
• Ethernet First Mile
• Over Dense Wave Division Multiplex (DWDM) optical networks
• 10GbE
• Over SONET / SDH
• Backhaul access network options
• Backhaul aggregation network options
• IP/MPLS pseudowires
• VLANS/VPLS
• Topology
• Ring, hub-and-spoke (star), or full or partial mesh
• Ethernet Transport in the form of 10G or 100G speeds
• Ethernet on the MAN
• Ethernet, Ethernet over SONET/SDH
• Ethernet over MPLS

Evolving of Wireless Access Broadband Technologies

• Short-Range Wireless Technologies
• Personal Area Networks (PAN)
• Bluetooth, RFID, NFC and Zigbee Capabilities
• Wireless LANs and 802.11n/ac/ad
• In-Home Networks
• Femtocells
• Satellite Systems/VSAT
• Wireless Backhaul Evolution Scenario
• Concepts behind Radio Communications
• Cellular Networks
• 2G./3G/4G Basics
• WiMAX and Mobile WiMAX
• 3G/UMTS/EV-DO
• LTE (Long Term Evolution)
• LTE/EPC, Flat IP Core

OSS (Operations Support Systems)

• Concepts behind OSS/BSS
• Billing
• Fraud
• CRM
• Revenue Assurance

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.