http://blog.teracomtraining.com Tutorials and articles on telecom, datacom, IP, networking, VoIP, MPLS and wireless training Mon, 26 May 2008 19:31:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The popular press and news feeds have been full of stories about advocates of "net neutrality" testifying to congressional committees, lobbying the federal government and railing against the big ISPs over the past while. It's hard to decide whether those arguing in favor of net neutrality are foolish, ignorant or ... http://blog.teracomtraining.com/net-neutrality Continuous quality improvement!  We have updated Course 110 and Course 150, updating the content, course titles, web pages and brochures. And we're putting on some great specials to mark the occasion!      Course 110 - Understanding IP Telecom: IP, VoIP and MPLS for Non-Engineers covers virtually all aspects of IP networks, ... http://blog.teracomtraining.com/updated-courses Course 110 - Understanding IP Telecom: IP, VoIP and MPLS for Non-Engineers: 2-for-1. Two people can attend for the price of one, June 17-18-19 in the Washington DC area.    Course 150 - Understanding IP Contact Center Technology: bonus DVD-video course "Understanding Networking 1". Receive as a bonus DVD-video course DVD-4 Understanding Networking ... http://blog.teracomtraining.com/seminar-specials-in-june E-mail was one of the first "killer apps" on the Internet, and has been a major contributor to increases in productivity over the past ten years. Of course, along with email came the scourge of spam. Criminals infect computers with trojan horse programs, creating collections of machines they control remotely ... http://blog.teracomtraining.com/digitally-signed-email-authentication-and-digital-signatures We usually feature articles on technical fundamentals in the newsletter - but this related topic might lighten up your day... a "help" desk so bad, it's almost funny. Recently, a relative asked me to help them sort out an issue with their ISP. They were paying for two internet access services, ... http://blog.teracomtraining.com/offshored-tech-support The Packet-Switched Telecommunications Network Over the past fifty years, several attempts have been made to develop converged networks: networks with “dial tone” that supports all communications: speech, music, text, graphics, images and video. For a number of reasons, convergence strategies employing ISDN and ATM were unsuccessful and did not gain critical ... http://blog.teracomtraining.com/ip-pstn Following is a section from the new third ... http://blog.teracomtraining.com/tcpip-over-mpls