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Telecom 101 Solstice Sale $99

Order Now. Use Coupon 1346 to get the softcover for $99. (Regular price $179.)

Packed with information, authoritative, up to date, covering all major topics – and written in plain English – Telecom 101 is an invaluable textbook and day-to-day reference on telecommunications for non-engineers.

This is the best comprehensive book on telecommunications available anywhere: based on the course materials for Teracom’s famous instructor-led Course 101 Broadband, Telecom, Datacom and Networking for Non-Engineers, the selection of content, its order, timing and pacing have been tuned, refined and constantly updated over years to effectively define and deliver the core set of technical knowledge needed by anyone serious in the telecom business today.

Telecom 101 Sixth Edition is right up to date with discussion of aircraft interfering with 5G in the C-band.

Telecom 101 covers the technologies, the players, the products and services, jargon and buzzwords, and most importantly, the underlying ideas… and how it all fits together.

In one book, you get consistency, completeness and unbeatable value: a wealth of clear, concise, organized knowledge, impossible to find in one place anywhere else!

Reviewing the Telecom 101 Table of Contents, you’ll find that many chapters are like self-contained reference books on specific topics; get all of these topics bound in one volume for one low price.

Compare this to hunting down and paying for multiple books by different authors that may or may not cover what you need to know- and you’ll agree this is a very attractive deal.

Telecom 101 is an economical and convenient way to self-study… these are the materials to an instructor-led course that costs $1895 to attend.

Written by our top instructor, Eric Coll, M.Eng., Telecom 101 contains decades of knowledge and learning distilled and organized into an invaluable study guide and practical day-to-day reference for non-engineers: career- and productivity-enhancing training… an investment in life-long knowledge that will be repaid many times over.

Order softcover now
Use coupon 1346 for the Solstice Sale price of $99
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Sale ends after the big party that caps off the week of solstice feasting (Jan 2)

Hardcover Telecom 101 is also on sale

eBook: available on Amazon, Google and Apple

Join thousands of satisfied customers. Get your copy today!

Wonder what we teach?

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.

Boot Camp IN-PERSON Aug 16-20 – Washington, DC

Have you been waiting for in-person training to start again?

Join us in Washington, DC and reap the benefits of connecting in-person with your instructor and fellow learners while maintaining the appropriate COVID-19 protocols.

If you want to join us in Washington, DC, please let us know as soon as possible and no later than July 22nd.

Teracom’s famous core telecom training for non-engineers, totally updated for the 2020s, with broadband, cloud computing, data centers, 5G, IoT, broadband wireless and much more.

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 $2495.

In the heart of the nation’s capital, steps from the White House. One block from McPherson Square Metro station, 20 minutes to DCA. Complimentary breakfast and Wi-Fi in Guest Rooms included with sleeping rooms.

Get out of the office, learn more and retain more with five days of the best you can get: live, in-person instructor-led training in a classroom environment.

You may register for only the first three days of BOOT CAMP (Course 101) or for the last two days only (Course 130) as best meets your needs. But with the bundle discount savings of $695 and three certifications, the full 5-day Course 111 BOOT CAMP is a great opportunity.

Which should you get? See our website for more information.

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.

Cheers!

Existing CTNS and CTA customers: No-Charge Update

Course L2241 Broadband Converged IP Telecommunications, and
Course L2221 Introduction to Voice over IP have been added to CTNS.

If you purchased CTNS before April 12, 2021, you can add the two new courses to CTNS on your dashboard at no charge by following these instructions.

This offer also applies to CTA and any Certification package bundles which included CTNS or CTA including CTSME.

Enjoy the training!

CTNS Upgrade Coming: Buy Now to Get Two Courses Free!

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!

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.

EC circa 1998 – The big prize is video on demand replacing movie rental stores

The video clip above is me talking about The Future. Shot in 1998. I was 36. I came across this by accident on a tape I was re-using.

The same day I came across this by accident, today, fourteen years later, I am getting Bell Fibe TV installed, which is exactly what I was talking about in the video clip!

Broadband high-speed Internet service (25 Mb/s) with IPTV over DSL over the phone line for content delivery.

Spooky!

– Eric Coll

The IP-PSTN

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 mass. This time, it appears that packet-switched network service using IP will gain enough momentum to become the new kind of plain ordinary telecommunications service.

Continue reading “The IP-PSTN”