The TCO Certified Telecommunications Subject Matter Expert (CTSME) is the most comprehensive telecom, datacom, networking, wireless, VoIP and SIP training and certification available anywhere.
Teracom Training continues to update the training material for the 2020s.
The CTSME Certification Package includes four TCO Certification Packages: CTNS, CVA, CWA and CTA, with unlimited repeats and no time limits, the distinctive Certified Telecommunications Subject Matter Expert CTSME Certification and a signed, sealed and framed certificate for $1495.
Here’s what you get:
CTA Certification Package Unlimited Plan. 16 courses covering all major topics in telecom, datacom and networking from POTS to MPLS plus the Security module. CVA Certification Package Unlimited Plan. Six courses providing depth on Voice over IP from packetization to SIP trunking. CWA Certification Package Unlimited Plan. Three in-depth courses on wireless including spectrum, propagation, cellular and mobility, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and more. CTNS Certification Package Unlimited Plan. CTNS is a subset of CTA, six of the sixteen CTA courses and exams – yet recognized as the #1 telecommunications certification worldwide and a valuable credential to add to your résumé.
We are so confident of the quality of the training, it comes with a 30‑day no questions asked 100% money‑back guarantee.
Terms and Conditions: Buy CTNS, CTA, CVA and CWA at the same time and receive the special bundle price OR buy the certifications one by one and the upgrade to the CTSME certification at the special bundled price when you are ready.
New Course 2241 Introduction to Broadband Telecommunications along with existing Course 2221 Fundamentals of Voice over IP will be added to the CTNS Certification Package before year-end.
The price of the CTNS package will increase when the number of courses increases from six to eight. Since all existing customers will automatically get the two new courses at no additional charge, you can beat the price increase by purchasing CTNS before the upgrade and get the two new courses, when they are released, for free!
Course 2206 Wireless Telecommunications has received a major update including 5G, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and more. Free access for current customers.
Updates of TCO
Certification courses continue to roll out with a major new release of Course
2206 Wireless Telecommunications, a comprehensive course on wireless,
including radio fundamentals, cellular and mobile telecommunications, LTE, 5G,
Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and more.
Course 2206 Wireless Telecommunications
All current
customers will automatically see the updated version in their dashboard.
If you’re not already registered for this course, we invite you to join the many people who have benefited from gaining these knowledge skills… and TCO Certification to prove it!
Taking this
course, you will develop a solid understanding of the fundamental principles of
radio, mobility and cellular, network components and operation, digital radio,
mobile phone calls and mobile Internet access, spectrum-sharing technologies
like OFDM, and LTE and 5G. In addition, you will get up to speed on the
components, operation and latest standards for Wi-Fi, and the essentials of
satellite communications.
We’ll cut
through the jargon to demystify wireless, explaining the fundamentals of
cellular and mobility, the buzzwords, the network, technologies and
generations, the underlying ideas, and how it all works together… in plain
English.
Course
Lessons 1. Introduction (free sample lesson)
2. Mobile Network Components, Jargon and Operation
3. Cellular Principles
4. PSTN Phone Calls using the Phone App: Voice Minutes
5. Mobile Internet: Data Plan
6. Spectrum-Sharing: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDM
7. 4G LTE: Mobile Broadband
8. 5G New Radio: Enhanced Mobile Broadband, IoT Communications 9. Wi-Fi: 802.11 Wireless LANs (free sample lesson)
10. Communication Satellites
Packed with information, authoritative, covering all major
topics – and written in plain English – Telecom 101 is also an invaluable
textbook and day-to-day reference on telecom.
Completely updated and revised for the 2020s, the new Fifth
Edition of Telecom 101 is the materials from the latest version of Teracom’s
famous Course 101 Broadband, Telecom, Datacom and Networking for Non-Engineers,
plus additional topics and chapters.
In a user-friendly 7 x 9″
softcover version, printed in color, or in eBook format, Telecom 101 brings you
in one volume consistency, completeness and unbeatable value.
Telecom 101 also serves as a
study guide for the Telecommunications Certification Organization TCO Certified
Telecommunications Analyst (CTA) telecommunications certification, covering all
material required for the CTA Certification Exam except the security module.
Our approach can be summed up
with a simple philosophy: Start at the beginning. Progress in a logical order.
Build one concept on top of another. Finish at the end. Avoid jargon. Speak in
plain English. Bust the buzzwords, demystify jargon, and cut through
doubletalk!
Fill gaps and build a solid base
of structured knowledge. Understand how everything fits together. … knowledge
and understanding that lasts a lifetime.
Ideal for anyone needing a book covering all major topics in telecom, data communications, IP and networking … in plain English.
A wealth of clear, concise,
organized knowledge, impossible to find in one place anywhere else!
High-Quality Reference Book and Study
Guide Covering All Major Telecommunications Topics… in Plain English.
7″ x 9″ softcover book • printed in color • 550 pages • 5th edition •
published 2020
ISBN 9781894887588 (print) ISBN
9781894887595 (eBook)
Broadband, Telecom, Datacom, and Networking VoIP, SIP, Security, 5G and IoT
Telecom BOOT CAMP covers the whole telecom and networking picture from fundamentals to future trends.
Major update for 2020! 5G, broadband, cloud, data centers, web services, IoT and much more!
Get up to speed on today’s telecom technologies. Fill the gaps. Demystify the jargon and build a solid knowledge base. TCO CTNS, CVA and CTA Certifications included.
Five days of career- and productivity-enhancing training, with three TCO Certifications. You get two detailed reference books printed in color and 15 bonus online courses to refresh your knowledge any time after. Value priced at $1895.
This is the 5-day BOOT CAMP that hundreds of people have rated “excellent” across the board on evaluations over the years!
Sign up early to receive immediate access to the online certifications and to receive your workbooks in advance of the course.
Optical Ethernet is signaling MAC frames
(Section 4.4) from one device to another by flashing a light on and off; light
on represents a 1 and light off represents a 0 in many systems.
The light, called a wavelength or lamda – λ
in Greek – is as close to one single pure frequency as possible, in the
infra-red, lower frequencies than what our eyes detect.
In sophisticated systems, the wavelength
might be modulated with QAM (Section 3.4) to increase the bit rate.
Normally, Optical Ethernet is implemented as
point-to-point connections: from a hardware port on one switch or router to a
hardware port on another switch or router in a different building. This
includes connections between core routers in cities, connections between
routers and switches within a city, and connections from carriers to customers.
10.5.1 SFP Modules and Connectors
The light is generated by a laser controlled
by pulses of electricity at the transmitter. The intensity and sometimes
phase of the light is modulated, i.e. changed in discrete steps, to represent
bits optically based on the pulses of electricity. Up to 80 km (50 miles) away
at the other end of a tube of glass thinner than one of your hairs, a
photodetector at the receiver measures the received light and decides what bits
are being represented, and transmits them onward as pulses of electricity.
As illustrated in Figure 111, most systems
use two fibers, one for each direction. A device combining the transmitter and
detector functions is called an optical transceiver.
This device has metal connectors on one side
to plug into a slot on a router or switch, and optical connectors on the other
side, either factory- or field-installed on the fibers plugged into the
transceiver.
These transceivers are typically implemented
as Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) modules, which are hot-swappable in the
terminating equipment at each end.
100 Gb/s being communicated through this
transceiver is the high end of commercially-deployed technology in 2020.
In some cases, the SFP modules are embedded
in the terminating equipment, meaning the fibers are plugged into the
terminating equipment. This allows re-use of existing fiber. In other cases,
the SFP modules are attached to fiber cables by the fiber cable manufacturer,
meaning the SFP module is plugged into the terminating equipment. This ensures
the fiber and transceiver technology are matched and the optical connection is
a high-quality “factory” connection.
The SFP module format is not the subject of a
standard, but rather described in industry Multiple Sourcing Agreements (MSA).
10.5.3 IEEE Standards
There are many technologies for transceivers
implemented in the SFP module. Some are proprietary; many are standardized by
the IEEE. In practice, the same manufacturer’s product is used at both ends of
the fiber to ensure compatibility. The table in Figure 112 lists current IEEE
standards. More will be published in the future.
Figure
112. IEEE Optical Ethernet Standards
Most technologies use one fiber for each
direction. Some, like for fiber to the home, use two wavelengths for two
directions on one fiber. The bitrate of the standards beginning with 1000 is
1,000 Mb/s, or 1 Gb/s. A G at the beginning means Gigabits/second. 40 and
100 Gb/s technologies split the bitstream into subrates and transmit them in
parallel on different wavelengths called paths or lanes.
The reach is the maximum length of
fiber between devices. Single-mode and multimode are designations for
different qualities of fiber. Most if not all builds today use
single-mode fiber.
In the constantly-evolving world of telecom,
it is essential to keep training courses up to date.
The reason why so many people appreciate Teracom’s Online Courses and TCO
Certification Packages is because they are based on Teracom’s
instructor-led courses, with the selection of material, its order, timing
and explanations tuned and refined in the classroom over the course of years,
and constantly updated.
This also means that updates to instructor-led courses are subsequently
reflected in online courses, keeping them up to date.
All six CTNS courses are being updated. Update of Course 2201 The PSTN is
complete. A significant update to Course 2206 Wireless Telecommunications
will be published in the next weeks. Updates to the OSI Layers, Ethernet,
IP and MPLS courses will follow.
All customers who have purchased the CTNS package, or any of the courses
individually, will automatically receive the updates in their dashboard.
Stay tuned for an exciting announcement of an upgrade to the CTNS package,
increasing the package from six courses to eight, with the inclusion of a brand
new course #1 in the lineup “Introduction to Broadband
Telecommunications” plus “Fundamentals of Voice over IP”.
The price of the CTNS package will increase when the number of courses
increases from six to eight. Since all existing customers will automatically
get the two new courses at no additional charge, you can beat the price
increase by purchasing
CTNS before the upgrade and get the two new courses, when they are
released, for free!
Specifically designed for non‑engineers, Teracom’s renowned telecommunications training is two courses back-to-back to make a full week called BOOT CAMP:
Core training Course 101: Broadband, Telecom, Datacom and Networking for Non‑Engineers Monday – Wednesday, then Course 130: Voice over IP, SIP, Security, 5G and IoT Thursday and Friday. You may register for individual courses or the full week as best meets your needs. Most people attend all five days, designated as Course 111 BOOT CAMP, to get the most comprehensive and highest quality telecommunications training available, at a discounted price, with three TCO Certifications included: CTNS, CVA and the prestigious TCO CTA Certification.
You will bust the buzzwords, understand the jargon and technologies, and most importantly, the underlying ideas, and how it all fits together …knowledge you can’t get on the job, talking to salespeople or reading articles.
Plus, you’ll get two printed course books with detailed notes bringing all of this material together and sure to be valuable references for years to come. With a total of 25 bonus online certification courses, plus 3 TCO Certification exams, both with unlimited repeats and no time limits.
Your knowledge skills, accuracy, productivity and buzzword-frustration level will all be improved with this career-enhancing training. What’s not to like?
Do
you need a foundation in telecommunications beginning from the ground up? The
Certified Telecommunications Network Specialist, CTNS, is the place to begin.
It lays a foundation on which all other telecommunications concepts are built.
Click here to watch the Lesson 1000 the Introduction to POTS and PSTN video.
The coursework for CTNS is a set of six high-quality online multimedia courses: • 2201 POTS AND THE PSTN • 2206 WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS • 2212 THE OSI LAYERS AND PROTOCOL STACKS • 2211 ETHERNET, LANS AND VLANS • 2213 IP NETWORKS, ROUTERS AND ADDRESSES • 2214 MPLS AND CARRIER NETWORKS
The CTNS Certification Package includes the six CTNS Courses and CTNS Certification Exam, both with unlimited repeats – which means guaranteed to pass if you’re willing to do the work, and refresh your knowledge anytime.
