Course Length: 2 Days
Prerequisites:
A fundamental understanding of telecommunications transmission principles will be useful for students taking this course. This course can be customized or combined to meet specific system requirements.
Course Objectives:
This course is for technical and non-technical students who are new to telecommunications. This is introductory material covering voice and data services and how they work in larger networks. This is a great course for managers and supervisors with little technical experience.
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Course Outline:
Introduction to POTS
- Definition of Bandwidth
- Noise & attenuation
- The POTS circuit - The Standard
- Passing Voice over POTS
- Passing Data over POTS
- DSL Services over POTS
- 2W/4W Circuits
Signaling Fundamentals
- E & M Signaling
- 3825 Out Of Band
- 2600 SF
FX And Dial Tone Trunks
- FX circuit descriptions
- Trunk Types
- Switching requirements
Circuit Impairments
- Cross Talk and Intermodulation
- Distortion
- Levels
- Interfering Carrier
Grounding and Bonding
- What is a good ground
- Why grounding is important
- Circuit grounding
- Cable grounding
Cabling Standards
- Making connections
- Horizontal and vertical systems
- Wire categories & size
- Termination blocks
- Connector types – RJ
Levels and level conversion
- dB measurement overview
- Terminations in analog circuits
- Why levels matter
- Composite levels
POTS over T1 circuits
- Working at the DS0 level
- Measuring VF circuits
- Testing DDS circuits