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Emerging Technologies Overview
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY

(16 Hours)

This course is designed to fully acquaint participants with today’s vast array of new and emerging technologies and their practical application in the marketplace. These will range from those found in Data Networking, Packet Switching, Transport, and Access. Wireless and VoIP will also be referred to. The related effects on Telcos and consumers are presented to allow participants to fully appreciate usage well beyond the installation of new technology.

The course will review how, when, where, and why new varieties of communications technologies continue to emerge. Apart from a strictly technical perspective, market demands and customer applications, are discussed and demonstrated. Lucent Technologies’ products will be matched to the emerging technologies to provide a full understanding in relation to Lucent jobs.
 

Course Outline

 
Evolution of Circuit Switching Technology
■ Analog Signal Fundamentals 
■ Manual, Step by Step, Crossbar
■ Advent of Circuit Switching, Analog Standard Voice Channel
■ Multiplexing, Frequency Division Multiplexing, L-Carriers
■ Digitization Fundamentals
■ Digital Switching, Time Division Multiplexing, D-Channel Banks
	- Metropolis ADM MultiService Mux
	- 5ESS Switch and 5E-XC Applications for Service Providers

■ SONET and Optical 
	- Metropolis Enhanced Optical Networking (EON) for Service Providers
	- Metropolis Wavelength Services Manager (WSM) for Service Providers
	- LambdaXtreme Transport for Service Providers
	- LambdaUnite MultiService Switch (MSS) for Service Providers
■ North American Digital Hierarchy

Evolution of Data Networking
■ Early Data Transmission using Analog, FAX, Modems

■ LANs, WANs, SANs
	- Juniper Networks E-Series Router Portfolio for Service Providers
	- Juniper Networks T-Series Router Portfolio for Service Providers
	- Juniper Networks M-Series Router Portfolio for Service Providers
	- Metropolis DMX Access Multiplexer for Service Providers
	- CBX 500 Multiservice WAN Switch for Service Providers

■ Packet Principles, Basic Packet Switching
■ Packet Switching Advantages, Answering the Flexible Bandwidth Demand
■ Internet/Intranet
■ Frame Relay
■ Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
■ DSL
	- Stinger FS+ DSL Access Concentrator for Service Providers

Evolution of the Access Network
	- AnyMedia Access System – 24 Channel for Service Providers
	- AnyMedia Access System – 30 Channel for Service Providers
■ POTS
■ Premise Switching, Concentrators
■ Fiber
■ ISDN, ADSL
■ Wireless
■ Cable
■ IP, VoIP