Our Standard Training Courses
	Ethernet, TCP/IP and Voice over IP	View Summary	View Detail
	Ethernet and TCP/IP	View Summary	View Detail
	Ethernet LANs	View Summary	View Detail
	IP and IP Networking	View Summary	View Detail
	Voice Technology Fundamentals	View Summary	View Detail
	Voice over IP / IP Telephony Overview		View Detail
	Voice over IP / IP Telephony	View Summary	View Detail
	Introduction to Datacommunications	View Summary	View Detail
	Introduction to Telecommunications	View Summary	View Detail
	MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching)	View Summary	View Detail
	ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)	View Summary	View Detail
	Frame Relay	View Summary	View Detail

Ethernet, TCP/IP and Voice over IP (5 days)

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1. Layered Communication Models: OSI and TCP/IP Models
2. Ethernet Fundamentals
3. LAN Switching Fundamentals
4. Virtual LANs (VLANs) and Trunking
5. Internet Protocol (IP) Fundamentals
6. Other layer 3 functions:
7. Routing IP, Static Routing and Routing Protocols
8. Network Design and Implementation Hands-on exercises
9. Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
10. Transport Layer Protocols – Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Fundamentals
11. Application Layer Protocols
12. Firewalls
13. IP and Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
14. Introduction to voice over IP (VoIP)
15. Overview of the voice technologies relevant to voice over IP
16. How is voice actually carried in IP packets?
17. The H.323 framework for voice over IP
18. Session Initiation Protocol - SIP for voice over IP
19. QoS requirements and solutions with voice over IP

Ethernet and TCP/IP (4 days)

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1. Layered Communication Models: OSI and TCP/IP Models
2. Ethernet Fundamentals
3. LAN Switching Fundamentals
4. Virtual LANs (VLANs) and Trunking
5. Internet Protocol (IP) Fundamentals
6. Other layer 3 functions:
7. Routing IP, Static Routing and Routing Protocols
8. Network Design and Implementation Hands-on exercises
9. Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
10. Transport Layer Protocols – Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Fundamentals
11. Application Layer Protocols
12. Firewalls
13. IP and Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
14. Voice over IP (VoIP)

Understanding Ethernet LANs (2 days)

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1. Introduction to, overview of and history of Ethernet
2. Ethernet frames, MAC addresses, collisions and CSMA/CD
3. The older Ethernet – 10BASE-5 (Thick Ethernet) and 10BASE-2 (Thin Ethernet)
4. Ethernet on UTP – Unshielded Twisted Pair
5. Ethernet on fibre (fiber) optic cable
6. 10Mbit/s Ethernet
7. Fast Ethernet – 100Mbit/s Ethernet
8. Gigabit Ethernet – 1Gbit/s Ethernet
9. Switched Ethernet
10. Spanning Tree with Ethernet switches
11. VLANs – Virtual LANs using Ethernet switches
12. 10 Gigabit Ethernet – 10Gbit/s Ethernet
    

Understanding IP and IP Networking (3 days)

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1. Introduction to IP
2. The IP Layer
3. IP Support Protocols
4. Transport Layer Protocols
5. Application Layer Protocols
6. Routing with IP
7. IP Version 6 (IPv6)
8. Security and IP
9. Quality of Service (QoS) and IP
10. IP and Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
11. Voice over IP
    

Understanding Voice Technology Fundamentals (3 days)

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1. Introduction to Voice Communications
2. Digital Voice
3. The Telephone
4. The Telephone Exchange
5. Digital Voice Transmission
6. E1 Digital Voice Interface
7. DS-1 (T1) Digital Voice Interface
8. Signalling on Analogue Interfaces
9. Signalling on Digital Interfaces
10. Overview of Basic Rate ISDN
11. Voice/Speech Compression
12. Speech Impairments
13. Echo and Echo Control
14. Voice and Data Integration
15. Voice over Frame Relay (VoFR)
16. Voice and Telephony Over ATM (VTOA)
17. Voice over IP (VoIP)
    
    

Understanding Voice over IP (2 days)

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1. Introduction to voice over IP (VoIP)
2. Overview of the voice technologies relevant to voice over IP
3. Overview of the IP technologies relevant to voice over IP
4. The H.323 framework for voice over IP
5. Session Initiation Protocol - SIP for voice over IP
6. MGCP and Megaco / H.248 for voice over IP
7. Voice over IP applications
8. QoS requirements and solutions with voice over IP
9. Other considerations with voice over IP

Introduction to Datacommunications (2 days)

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1. Data Communication Concepts
2. Local Area Networks (LANs)
3. LAN Interconnection
4. Other Types of LAN
5. The Internet Protocol (IP) and 'TCP/IP'
6. Routing with IP
7. The Internet
8. Wide Area Network (WAN) Protocols
9. Overview of Transmission Systems - PDH and SDH
10. Some Other 'hot' Topics in the Datacommunications Industry
    
    

Introduction to Telecommunications (2 days)

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1. Introduction to Telecommunications
2. Digital Voice (Analogue to Digital Conversion)
3. Digital Voice Transmission and Multiplexing of Multiple Channels
4. The 2Mbit/s Framed Interface
5. Signalling System Number 7 (SS7)
6. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and its Applications
7. Transmission Systems - PDH and SDH
8. Introduction to Data Communication Protocols
9. Voice and Data Integration
   
   

Understanding Multi Protocol Label Switching (2 days)

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1. MPLS: The Need For a New Solution
2. Label Distribution and Signalling
3. Frame Relay, ATM and MPLS
4. MPLS Traffic Engineering
5. Supporting Differentiated Services (Diff-Serv) with MPLS
6. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
7. Voice over MPLS
8. Introduction to Optical Networks and MPLS
   
   

Understanding Asynchronous Transfer Mode - ATM (3 days)

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ATM Technology

1. Introduction to ATM
2. The standards for ATM
3. The ATM layer
4. The Physical layer
5. The ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL)
6. ATM Service Categories and Traffic Management
7. Signalling for SVCs and Soft-PVCs
8. ATM Network Management, ILMI and OAM 9. Private Network-Network (Network-Node) Interface - PNNI

Applications on ATM

10. Voice and Telephony over ATM
11. MPEG-2 Video over ATM
12. IP over ATM (Layer 2 support)

- RFC1483: Multiprotocol Encapsulation over AAL5
- RFC1577 and RFC2225: Classical IP and ARP over ATM
- LAN Emulation (LANE): Versions 1 and 2

13. IP over ATM (Layer 3 support)

- Multiprotocol over ATM (MPOA)
- Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

14. Frame Relay/ATM Interworking

Understanding Frame Relay (2 days)

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1. Introduction to Frame Relay
2. User-to-Network and Network-to-Network Interfaces
3. High Speed Frame Relay and ATM to Frame Relay Interworking
4. Handling real-world and time sensitive traffic
5. Voice and Video over Frame Relay
6. Defining and Measuring Service Levels
7. Synergies of Frame Relay, IP and ATM - New Developments
8. Further Aspects of Frame Relay