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Tutorials and articles from Teracom Training Institute. Bringing you the best in telecom training and certification since 1992.
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.
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!
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:
are budget-friendly and appreciated by management.
Here is a cut-and-paste training request form to send to your boss!
Now is the time to invest in yourself and your team for the coming year.
Boot Camp Live Online is coming up Jan 24-28, 2022.
Register now so you don’t miss out on this great training opportunity with a live instructor.
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.
Let us know you plan to attend by creating your registration.
Register today!
BOOT CAMP is Course 101 and 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).
Course 2214 MPLS and Carrier Networks
Lesson 7 TCP/IP over MPLS
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.
In this free online network training course lesson, we’ll trace the flow of a file transfer over an MPLS network, seeing how TCP is used for error recovery, IP is used for addressing the destination, MAC addresses indicate the next device, and MPLS labels implement a virtual circuit for communications within the carrier IP network.
We’ll follow a file download through all the protocols, identifying each step and the equipment that implements it. To conclude, we’ll see how MPLS can be used to move MAC frames instead of the usual IP packets for a service called Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), also known as Carrier Ethernet.
This course is available on its own, and is included in the CTNS Certification Package, the CTA Certification Package, the CIPTS Certification Package and the CTSME Certification Package.
Click here to watch this lesson for free in full quality with our compliments.
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
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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.
Course 101, Course 130 and Boot Camp coming to you Live Online Oct 18-22.
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.
The Introduction to Broadband Converged IP Telecom course is the first course in our self-study CTNS certification package and the CTSME certification bundle, and the first chapter in our instructor-led Course 101 and Boot Camp.
It provides an overview of the material that we cover in our training and gives you a taste of the style and format of our online training.
Watch the introduction session for free and gain an understanding of all the topics which are taught in more detail throughout the training.