Distance Learning Correspondence Course
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This is the one course that anyone faced with getting connected in a variety of ways or locations should take. Whether trying to get broadband in remote areas or on the road, this course helps users and engineers both understand the questions that must be asked of themselves and service providers in order to ensure the best connection value for the dollar. The course covers wireline options such as Cable, DSL, T-1, frame relay, dial-up, etc. It also covers wireless in various forms - Wi-Fi community networks, satellite communications and cell phone data. State-of-art approaches such as fiber, lasers, microwave beams and use of power lines to deliver broadband service are covered. Special application considerations are covered, as are methods of combining technologies to deliver service. Whether a manager over sales, field staff, human resources, IT or logistics, or an engineer, community or network planner, or just an individual seeking an overview of connectivity options available today--this is the one course that puts all of the pieces together.
- Save you and your company thousands of hours and dollars
- Maximize your Return on Investment
- Only 20 students accepted each month
- Instructor interaction guaranteed
- 20 Module course delivered over 3 month period
- No special software required
- Enroll now for class beginning the first of next month
Who Should Take This Course
- IT network engineers and technicians
- Sales Managers
- Human Resource Managers
- Telecommuters
- Mobile Professionals
- SOHOs
- Fleet Managers
- Community Network Planners
- Cell Phone Network Engineers
- Telecommunications Salespeople
- Mobile Network Designers
What You Will Gain From The eCourse
- Ability to determine and specify your requirements
- Knowledge to enable selection of the appropriate connection alternatives
- Information on general costs of connection alternatives
Syllabus
This course is intended for both technical and non-technical people anywhere in the world.
Certificate of Completion Provided Upon Successful Completion of Course
- Bits & Bytes
- Broadband, Text, Graphics, Video and File Sizes
- ASCII, MHz, How much do I need?
- Data Flows
- Telephony
- Internet Telephony
- Loops
- Termination
- QOS
- Jitter & Latency
- Regulatory Environment
- ISP services, Capacity & Over-subscription Rates
- Wireline & Fiber Connections - Bandwidth Quotations & Required Equipment
- Satellite
- Broadcast
- Two-Way
- Uplink Power and Data Rate
- Footprints & Link Budgets
- Bandwidth, shared vs. CIR
- Alphabet soup: SCPC, DVB, TDMA, MF-TDMA, DVB-RCS, TVRO
- Latency, GEO, MEO, LEO, Cost
- TCP Acceleration
- VPN vs. Private Networks
- VSAT
- Television/Video
- International regulatory environment
- Power Line Communications
- Historically low speed
- OFDM & Multi-frequency communications
- Power Distribution Network
- The Transformer Problem
- Wireless
- Know your ABC's: 2G, 2.5G, 3G, Wi-Fi, LMDS, MMDS, WiMax, 900 MHz, UWB
- Backhauls, Network Architecture
- Real coverage, multipath
- Cells & Handoffs
- CDPD
- Private Mobile Radio
- Health Concerns
- Access on the Road
- Plugging in at point along the way—Hotels, Airports, iPass, GRIC, offices, other
- Cell phone data—9600 bps anywhere you can place a call; metro areas; coverage
- WAP, iMode, BREW, IM/SMS
- Wi-Fi Hotspots-Starbucks, Pay Phones, becoming more pervasive
- The problem of roaming—which technology? Who’s making what?
- Risk associated with different methods and their industry business models
- Satellite phones & FM pagers
- Portable VSATs, esp. RBGAN (UMTS convergence?)
- Is your client fat or thin?
- Citrix
- Windows Terminal Services
- Web-based
- PC Anywhere
- Satellite Internet on the Road or Water—or in the Air
- Tracking
- GPS
- Cross Polarization
- 2 degree separation
- Regulatory
- Phone & Fax services
- Compression
- VPN
- Packet vs. Time pricing for access
- Parked vs. in motion
- Streaming, Videoconferencing, ISDN vs. IP
- Caching data, Akamai
- Free Space Optics and Millimeter Wave (FSO & MMW)
- Capacity
- Fog
- Cost compared to Fiber
- Who is using it?
- Putting it all together
- Amperion Scenario - Substations with and without fiber; No roaming handoffs
- Hybrid Satellite & Wi-Fi
- 2.5 Mbps to the home, 14 Mbps in-home Today
- 100 Mbps via power lines to home and wireless—cf. with FTTH
- Interconnects for cell phones
- Security
- Built-in encryption of Direcway uplink
- WEP of BPL
- VPN Routers/Accelerators
- RADIUS
- OSI Layer and VPN for VSAT, cf. with TCP Acceleration
- Transition to SSL-based access, including SSO
- Performance and bandwidth requirements—specific application examples and calculations
- Special Considerations using satellite and other non-optimal latency solutions
- SQL DB
- Drive mappings
- Application timeouts
- need for building in more latency tolerance into applications
- Data collection and Real Time Controls
- SCADA
- What latency is required for remote manipulation?
- Application Considerations
- Latency, handshaking and bnadwidth considerations
- Telecommuting
- Education
- Telemedicine
- Sales Force
- Mobile Office
- Remote Office
- Agriculture
- Access Centers—cyber cafes, telecottages, CTCs
- Kiosks
- Power consumption & solar
- Power infrastructure
- Backup network connection
- Sample Problem Scenarios
- Student examples
- Generic Scenarios
- Specifying your Requirements
- Application analysis
- Operating environment
- How fast do you need it?
- Page load times
- Oversubscription
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