Description
This two days course for carrier employees, is an overview of the data communication area. It can also be an introduction to students that are going to continue with succeeding educations within data/tele communication.
Target group
The target audience is technical personnel at carriers and for personnel who builds equipment and carrier-services or others who need technical knowledge in this area.
Prerequisites
The students should have basic computer knowledge before attending this course. The students do not need to have any knowledge about data communication in advance.
Other
This course is currently not available as scheduled training. Please contact us if you are interested in this course. Either we can give the course as internal training or we may arrange it as scheduled training.
Agenda
Introduction
- The OSI theoretical model
- Packet switching vs. Circuit switching
- Differences between Telecom and Datacom
- Bandwidth explanation
- Convergence; Mobile, tele and data communication
Distances
- PAN
- LAN
- MAN
- WAN
Different ways of sending traffic:
- Unicast
- Broadcast
- Multicast
- Anycast
Network design
- Cable system and design
- Hub
- Repeater
- Switch
- Router
- Level 3 Switch
- Firewall
- Gateway
LAN (Local Area Network)
- The market
- Ethernet, 802.3WLAN, 802.11xVLAN
WAN (core)
- Historical technologies
- Leased lines
- PPP/MLPPP
- Long distance Ethernet
- IP over Fiber
- IP-VPN
- MPLS/RSVP, GMPLS
Access networks
- Structure; Access and networks in houses
- The need of bandwidth; different applications
- Leased lines:
- -Fiber
- -Copper
- -Wireless/LMDS
- Cable modems
- ISDN
- Analog modems
- xDSL technologies
- WIMAX
- 3G
TCP/IP
- IETF standards
- IP Basics
- IP Addressing (Public & private)
- Address translation (NAT)
- TCP & UDP
Applications
- Telnet
- File transfer
- WWW
- Unified Messaging (UM)
- EDI
- DHCP
- DNS
- IP-TV
Routing
- Routing, why and how
- Equipment and protocols
Internet
- Design
- Organisation
- Functions
Telephony
- The Mobile telephony world
- IP and telephony, VoIP
- What about Skype
QoS
- Definitions of QoS, CoS
- Why QoS
- Methods & tools
- MPLS/RSVP
- Diffserv
- How to obtain traffic quality in converged networks
- SLA
- Measuring QoS
Security
- Why security and where, OSI
- Redundancy protocols
- Firewall (FW)
- VPN
- IPSec
- TLS/SSL
- SSH, PGP
- What about communication in the future
- How to perform future needs for communication?
- What technologies are likely to be used?
- Technology trends
- Market trends
Network Tools
- Wireshark sniffer
- Ping
- Tracert/Traceroute
- TP Test
- Other free and licensed tools
- Network management & MIB
Summary
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