Boot Camp Santa Clara, California

Have you been waiting for an In-Person Telecommunications course on the west coast?
Your wait is over!

Telecom Boot Camp – Apr 3-7 2023 Santa Clara, California.

Course 101 Apr 3-5 2023
Course 130 Apr 6-7 2023
Which should you take?

Registration is now open.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Boot Camp 2023

Plan your training for the new year now!

BOOT CAMP Live Online – Feb 6-10 2023
BOOT CAMP In-Person Washington DC – March 6-10 2023

BOOT CAMP Live Online, also called a virtual telecom course, has been so well received, what we thought was a temporary solution for the pandemic is scheduled on an ongoing basis.

Advantages which are budget-friendly and appreciated by management like:
Significant cost savings
High-quality color course books shipped directly to students
Get dispersed team members up to a common speed
Well-suited to work from home
No travel costs
Online courses and certifications included

Boot Camp In-Person
Time for a change of scenery and career-enhancing training!
Live, in-person, in-classroom training is the gold standard in training: the best you can get.
Attendees often network, and go out to lunch together.
Stretch your legs in the evening with a stroll along the reflecting pool, or checking out the scene of the crimes at the Capitol!

Next Boot Camp Courses

BOOT CAMP In-Person
Washington DC January 23-27 2023

Time for a change of scenery and career-enhancing training!  

Live, in-person, in-classroom training is the gold standard in training: the best you can get.

Attendees often network, and go out to lunch together.

Stretch your legs in the evening with a stroll along the reflecting pool, or checking out the scene of the crimes at the Capitol!

Here’s a copy-and-paste training request letter.

BOOT CAMP Live Online
December 5-9 2022

BOOT CAMP Live Online, also called a virtual telecom course, has been so well received, what we thought was a temporary solution for the pandemic is scheduled on an ongoing basis.

Advantages like:

  • Significant cost savings
  • High-quality color course books shipped directly to students
  • Get dispersed team members up to a common speed
  • Well-suited to work from home
  • No travel costs
  • Online courses and certifications included

are budget-friendly and appreciated by management.


Here is a cut-and-paste training request form to send to your boss!

CWA: Major Update – 30% off

CWA Icon

All courses updated, with new lessons on LTE, 5G, MVNOs and more.

Release special: 30% off CWA Unlimited Plan regular price of $359.
$249 Limited-time offer.

Major update of CWA Courses, along with the CWA Study Guide and TCO Certification Exam released.

CWA delivers the core technical knowledge needed by anyone serious in the wireless business today…

  • Radio fundamentals and spectrum
  • Digital radio and QAM modems
  • Propagation, penetration and fading
  • Mobility concepts, mobile network design and operation
  • Radio technologies: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and LTE and 5G’s OFDMA
  • 5G mmWave ultra-broadband
  • 5G low bitrate for IoT
  • Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), the first full-duplex
  • 3.5 GHz Wireless home Internet
  • Low Earth Orbit satellites, and more,

… and TCO Certification to prove it!

Get More Info on CWA Certification

Click to watch Introduction to CWA from your Instructor


CWA Courses:
2231 Wireless Fundamentals
2232 Mobile Communications
2233 Fixed Wireless

Release special: 30% off CWA Unlimited Plan regular price of $359.  $249 Limited-time offer.

30-day, 100% Money-Back Guarantee.

Previous purchasers: new lessons are already in your dashboard under the free updates policy.

Two Free Bonus Courses with CTA

On top of the sixteen courses included in the CTA Certification Package,
Course L2241 Introduction to Broadband Converged IP Telecom, and
Course L2221 Introduction to Voice over IP
are now included as free bonus courses with CTA.

Follow these instructions to add the two bonus courses to your dashboard at no charge after purchasing CTA.

BOOT CAMP: Get The Training You Need

In-Person January 17-21, Live Online January 24-28

Relatively new to telecom? Frustrated with all the jargon and buzzwords? Grab this opportunity to get the training you need!

Join thousands of satisfied non-engineering professionals! Bust the buzzwords, demystify the jargon and understand today’s converged broadband IP telecommunications, the technologies and services, the underlying ideas, and how it all fits together.

Stay focused, engaged and learn with a professional instructor.

Eliminate lack-of-knowledge embarrassment. Be more confident with a solid base of telecommunications knowledge you can build on, from fundamentals to IoT and everything between.

Specifically designed for non-engineers, Teracom’s renowned telecommunications training is organized into two courses back-to-back to make a full week called BOOT CAMP:
Course 101: Broadband, Telecom, Datacom and Networking for Non-Engineers, then
Course 130: Voice over IP, SIP, Security, 5G and IoT.

  • Some people, needing a comprehensive base in telecom, attend only the core training Course 101 the first three days, and get the included CTNS Certification.
  • Others, who already have a base, attend Course 130 the last two days for VoIP, the Security module, 5G and IoT with examples like Smart Cities, and get the included CVA Certification.
  • 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.

Register for BOOT CAMP

More information on BOOT CAMP

Printable BOOT CAMP brochure

This is an easy sell with management.  Your increase in productivity and accuracy will over time far outweigh the cost of a week’s training.  Plus, you get bonus online courses and certification, and high quality printed course books.

Here’s a cut-and-paste training request template to submit for approval.

Here’s a sampling of student evaluations from recent classes:

“Awesome course, really. Just very, very good.”
  – Tim Wilson, Ciena

“Thank you guys so much, this class was amazing! I would take this all over again!”
– Austin Thompson, NHC

“Since I am very new to telecom, this helped me connect the dots, the different layers and terminology. I liked that it followed the printed workbooks very closely so I could read the summaries after the lessons. The instructor was great. He kept it light, added some jokes to keep it entertaining. I liked most when he did drawings with his explanations.”
  – Ashley Brinkman, Marketing Manager, MTA, Palmer Alaska

“The course was very beneficial for me.  I wish I would have been able to take this class a few years back when I first started!”
  – Tamara Pepin, CRTC

“I had some of the basics; this class filled gaps and added much more depth. Instructor Richard was open to questions at any time, and revisited topics until we got it. Having the notes in the printed course book to follow along and add to was very helpful. Richard was very passionate about the course material and had great real-life examples.”
– Robert Smieszny, NHC

“Richard is an excellent instructor. He has unmatched knowledge on the subject! He does a fantastic job interacting as if we are physically in a classroom with him!”
– Daniel Herfel, National Institute of Standards and Technology

CTNS Study Guide – Hardcover and Softcover Now available!

The CTNS Study Guide corresponds exactly to the CTNS courses, with detailed notes plus knowledge objectives and summaries for every lesson.

Now available in a beautiful high-quality hardcover edition, a pleasure to  hold, plus the traditional more compact softcover format.

Softcover is in stock and ships right away.

Note: Hardcovers are printed one at a time, just for you, adding 15 days to delivery time.  The quality of the cover and binding is worth the wait!

Of course the eBook version is also available through our online partners.

Free Preview – Course 2214 MPLS and Carrier Networks

Carrier Packet Networks • Technologies • MPLS • MPLS VPNs • SLAs • CoS • Integration & Aggregation

MPLS and Carrier Networks is a comprehensive training course designed to build a solid understanding of carrier packet networks and services, the terminology, technologies, configuration, operation and most importantly, the underlying ideas… in plain English.

We’ll cut through the buzzwords and marketing to demystify carrier packet networks and services, explaining Service Level Agreements, traffic profiles, virtual circuits, QoS, Class of Service, Differentiated Services, integration, convergence and aggregation, MPLS and other network technologies, and how they relate to TCP/IP, without bogging down on details.

Course Lessons
1. Introduction
2. Carrier Packet Network Basics
3. Service Level Agreements
4. Virtual Circuits
5. QoS Requirement for Voice over IP
6. MPLS
7. TCP/IP over MPLS
8. Differentiated Classes of Service using MPLS
9. Integration and Convergence using MPLS
10. Managing Aggregates of Traffic with MPLS Label Stacking
11. MPLS Services vs. Internet Service

Click or tap to watch the lesson in full quality

Based on Teracom’s famous Course 101, tuned and refined over the course of over 25 years of instructor-led training, you will gain career- and productivity-enhancing knowledge of the structure, components and operation of carrier packet networks and services, how they are implemented, packaged and marketed by carriers and how they are used by government, business… and other carriers.

Next Boot Camp Live Online – November 15-19 – Register today!

Let us know you plan to attend by creating your registration.

BOOT CAMP is Course 101 and Course 130 back-to-back to make a whole week, packaged with a discount as Course 111.

Career- and productivity-enhancing training, two course books with detailed notes, printed in color, totaling over 600 pages, plus bonus CTNS, CVA and CTA Certification Packages, for only $1895 Live Online (regular $2495 In-Person).

Group discounts are also available.

Plus, You will also get immediate access to the included TCO Certification Packages: CTNS, CTA and CVA and their twenty-five full-length online courses, with no time limits and unlimited repeats.

get more info

Live Online Oct 18-22

Course 101, Course 130 and Boot Camp coming to you Live Online Oct 18-22.

Monday to Wednesday
Both Course 101 and Course 130!
Thursday and Friday

This is your opportunity to not only receive great live instructor-led training, but also receive access to the corresponding self-study online courses and certifications at no additional cost!

Still working from home? No problem. We’ll ship the workbooks directly to your door.

The best part: BOOT CAMP has been totally updated for the 2020s, with 5G, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Smart Cities & more!

This is the most up-to-date telecom-for-non-engineers training that can be found anywhere… and truly career-enhancing knowledge.

Get more Info