Telecom 101: Fifth Edition 2020 now available on Apple Books

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)

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Boot Camp Live Online – Jan 25-29, 2021

A Full Week of Telecom Training for Non‑Engineers

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.

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Boot Camp Live Online Sept 21-25, 2020

Only 6 weeks away. Register today!

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?

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Teracom Training Seminars

Teracom Onsite Training is a great way to train your staff and get them up to speed in all things telecom. We can customize your group training and come right to your location.

Courses and certifications in basic fundamentals, VoIP, IoT, IP Networking, 5G, internet security and more!

Over 20 years of training and experience with our expert instructors. Don’t miss out, contact us for some information today!

If you have just a few employees that need training, Teracom offers public seminars throughout US and Canada. From Orlando to Toronto, we are sure to be in an area that meets your needs.

Check out our public training schedule for more information and register today!

Tutorial: 5G Wireless

One place 5G base stations will be deployed is on streetlights

Now that 4G cellular mobile is settled, talk is now turning to 5G.

The first thing to know about 5G is that there are currently no standards, no detailed agreement on what exactly it will be. But we have a number of general indicators to guide the discussion:

1. 5G will employ radio frequencies well above what is currently used for cellular.
The current frequency bands for 3G/4G cellular top out at about 2.6 GHz. Proposals for frequency bands for 5G include “millimeter wave” bands, that is, wavelengths varying between 1 and 10 mm, which correspond to frequencies between about 30 and 300 GHz. No doubt, in the future, there will be unified 5G systems with variations operating in all frequency bands; but the current emphasis is on new technology in the millimeter wave bands.

2. 5G will provide very high bit rates.
With carrier frequencies at 30 GHz and above, very wide frequency bands around those center frequencies can be employed, allowing the radio frequency modems to achieve high numbers of bits per second. In addition, Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) designs can implement massive parallel communications, radically increasing the capacity available to a user. Initial designs and trials have measured 5 Gb/s (5,000 Mb/s). No doubt, this will be pushed beyond 10 Gb/s.

3. Initially, 5G will not be a replacement for 4G.
At millimeter wave frequencies, in-building penetration and refraction around obstacles is poor, and the atmosphere attenuates (diminishes) the signal to the point that line-of-sight between the antennas is necessary, and useful transmission range is measured in the hundreds of meters (yards). This means that the first deployments of 5G will be in environments where base stations can be closely spaced.

One application for all this bandwidth is traffic control: going beyond today’s standalone self-driving vehicles to vehicles communicating with each other and with traffic control systems, with base stations deployed on street lights as suggested by the picture.

We’ll be covering 5G on the last day of BOOT CAMP.

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