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Free Online Telecom Course, Networking Courses Lessons

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Module 1. Fundamentals of Telephony
	1. Module Introduction watch now (free)
	2. History of Telecommunications (USA and Canada)
	3. The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
	4. Analog Circuits and Sound watch now (free)
	5. The Voiceband
	6. Plain Ordinary Telephone Service (POTS)
	7. Signaling: Pulse Dialing and Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF)
	8. Signaling System 7 (SS7)
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Module 6. Wireless Communications
	1. Module Introduction watch now (free)
	2. Mobile Network Components, Jargon and Basic Operation
	3. Cellular Principles and AMPS (1G)
	4. 2G: Digital Radio - Voice Communications
	5. Digital Cellular: Data Communications
	6. Spectrum-Sharing Technologies: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDM
	7. 3G Cellular: CDMA watch now (free)
	8. 4G Mobile Cellular: LTE
	9. 802.11 Wireless LANs - WiFi
	10. Communication Satellites
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Module 11. LANs
	1. Module Introduction watch now (free)
	2. Bus Topology, Access Control, Broadcast Domains and MAC Addresses
	3. Ethernet and 802.3
	4. Evolution of Ethernet: 10BASE-2, 10BASE-T -> Gigabit
	5. LAN Cables and TIA-568 Categories watch now (free)
	6. Bridging
	7. LAN Switches
	8. VLANs
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Module 12: The OSI Layers and Protocol Stacks
	1. Module Introduction watch now (free)
	2. Open Systems
	3. Protocols and Standards watch now (free)
	4. ISO OSI 7-Layer Reference Model
	5. The Physical Layer: Fiber, Twisted Pair, Cable and Wireless
	6. Data Link Layer: LANs and MAC Addresses
	7. Network Layer: IP, MPLS, Packets and Routers
	8. Transport Layer: Reliability, Ports and Sockets
	9. Session Layer: SIP, POP and HTTP
	10. Presentation Layer: ASCII, MIME, Compression, Encryption, Codecs
	11. Application Layer: SMTP, HTML and English
	12. Protocol Stacks: The FedEx Analogy
	13. Protocol Headers: Babushka Dolls
	14. Standards Organizations
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Module 13: IP Packet Networks, Addresses and Routers
	1. Module Introduction watch now (free)
	2. Review: Channelized Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM)
	3. Statistical Time-Division Multiplexing: Bandwidth-on-Demand
	4. Private Network: Bandwidth on Demand + Routing
	5. Routers
	6. IPv4 Addresses
	7. DHCP
	8. Public and Private IPv4 Addresses
	9. Network Address Translation watch now (free)
	10. IPv6 Overview
	11. IPv6 Address Allocations and Assignment
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