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Mar 29, 2024
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TEL 230 - Advanced Topics in Telecom Credits: 4 Lecture Hours: 4 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Voc/Tech Covers advanced digital switching principles and practices, system configuration, and diagnostic procedures common to digital central office switching systems and private branch exchanges. Advanced topics using high-speed broadband links and fiber optics are introduced. Experienced individuals may contact the instructor to gain admittance to this course. Prerequisite: TEL 220 , TEL 223 . Corequisite: TEL 233 Competencies
- Explain hierarchical and nonhierarchical networks
- Discuss the predivestiture hierarchical network.
- Discuss postdivestiture dynamic hierarchical networks
- Explain call routing methods in nonhierarchical networks
- Discuss CLASS 1 thru CLASS 5 levels of switch networks
- Explain methods and reasons for voice digitization
- Identify basic advantages of digital voice circuits
- Discuss basic disadvantages of digital voice circuits.
- Compare common methods for digitizing voice signals
- Discuss sampling rates, and foldover distortion
- Discuss quantizing and idle channel noise
- Explain multiplexing and transmitting digital signals
- Identify transmission types
- Compare line coding methods
- Discuss companding methods
- Discuss error performance and monitoring systems
- Compare digital switching types and methods
- Discuss space division and time division switching
- Compare one dimensional and two dimensional switching
- Discuss digital cross-connect switching systems
- Discuss digital switching in an analog environment
- Identify methods used for network synchronization and control
- Discuss timing methods and problems
- Discuss techniques for correcting timing problems
- Explain network synchronization methods
- Explain network routing and flow control
- Explain traffic analysis
- Discuss traffic characterization
- Discuss traffic distribution techniques
- Identify traffic loss systems
- Discuss network blocking probabilities
- Identify traffic delay systems
- Use Poisson and Erland traffic tables
- Explain signaling methods in telephone networks
- Explain in detail loop, GR-303, ISDN and SS7 signaling procedures
- Explain in detail how Q.931 applies to Voice over IP
- Explain in detail how VOIP signaling protocols function
- Explain voice quality measurement
- Explain Mean Opinion score measurements
- Explain R Factor and its relation to MOS
- Identify methods used to obtain MOS and R Factor measurements
- Discuss Wireless LAN technologies
- Explain the characteristics of IEE802.11A/B/G standards
- Explain different antenna characteristics used in WLAN
- Explain signal quality and link status measurements taken in wireless networks
- Discuss SONET
- Explain the various levels of service in SONET.
- Explain the difference between synchronous and asynchronous transmission systems
- Explain section, line and path overhead
- Discuss applications of SONET
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