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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
  1. Explain hierarchical and nonhierarchical networks
    1. Discuss the predivestiture hierarchical network.
    2. Discuss postdivestiture dynamic hierarchical networks
    3. Explain call routing methods in nonhierarchical networks
    4. Discuss CLASS 1 thru CLASS 5 levels of switch networks
  2. Explain methods and reasons for voice digitization
    1. Identify basic advantages of digital voice circuits
    2. Discuss basic disadvantages of digital voice circuits.
    3. Compare common methods for digitizing voice signals
    4. Discuss sampling rates, and foldover distortion
    5. Discuss quantizing and idle channel noise
  3. Explain multiplexing and transmitting digital signals
    1. Identify transmission types
    2. Compare line coding methods
    3. Discuss companding methods
    4. Discuss error performance and monitoring systems
  4. Compare digital switching types and methods
    1. Discuss space division and time division switching
    2. Compare one dimensional and two dimensional switching
    3. Discuss digital cross-connect switching systems
    4. Discuss digital switching in an analog environment
  5. Identify methods used for network synchronization and control
    1. Discuss timing methods and problems
    2. Discuss techniques for correcting timing problems
    3. Explain network synchronization methods
    4. Explain network routing and flow control
  6. Explain traffic analysis
    1. Discuss traffic characterization
    2. Discuss traffic distribution techniques
    3. Identify traffic loss systems
    4. Discuss network blocking probabilities
    5. Identify traffic delay systems
    6. Use Poisson and Erland traffic tables
  7. Explain signaling methods in telephone networks
    1. Explain in detail loop, GR-303, ISDN and SS7 signaling procedures
    2. Explain in detail how Q.931 applies to Voice over IP
    3. Explain in detail how VOIP signaling protocols function
  8. Explain voice quality measurement
    1. Explain Mean Opinion score measurements
    2. Explain R Factor and its relation to MOS
    3. Identify methods used to obtain MOS and R Factor measurements
  9. Discuss Wireless LAN technologies
    1. Explain the characteristics of IEE802.11A/B/G standards
    2. Explain different antenna characteristics used in WLAN
    3. Explain signal quality and link status measurements taken in wireless networks
  10. Discuss SONET
    1. Explain the various levels of service in SONET.
    2. Explain the difference between synchronous and asynchronous transmission systems
    3. Explain section, line and path overhead
    4. Discuss applications of SONET



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