2003 Summer Workshop

Impressions
from the past:

“This workshop really
brought to my awareness
the huge amount of
material and information
that I need to cover to
be comfortable as
a telecom instructor.”

“I see a greater melding
of IT and Telecom.”

“Excellent consolidation
of technologies.”

The Advanced Workshop will help you build your existing telecommunications program with advanced topics in the telecommunications and information technologies industries. The workshop will explore what the major concerns facing many corporations are, the current trends in the technologies that drive the communications industries, and what segments of communications industries are merging. The workshop will culminate in the building of an integrated telecommunications system that will be applicable to students who will be working across the information as well as the telecommunications industries.

The following are descriptions of what participants will learn at each of the three technology tracks offered at the workshop.

This three day workshop will give the attendee a comprehensive overview of the present state of telecommunications network infrastructure in the United States. The integration of cable, wireless, and fiber optics networks will be examined from the perspective of both the consumer and the network operator. Presently, all technology segments supply some form of digital connectivity to businesses and the consumer. This connectivity will be examined from the Personal, Local, Metropolitan, and Wide Area Networks levels. The local PSTN, broadband Cable TV, wirlesss Cellular/PCS, Internet, fiber-optic, and Satellite long haul network operators will serve s entry points for the discussion of the various technologies (T-carrier, ATM, SONET, etc) employed to form secure high speed telecommunications networks that span small to medium to large (country and worldwide) geographical areas.

The second day of the workshop will consist of breakout sessions that offer more detail about state-of-the-art and emerging technology in three basic technology areas - wireless, cable, and lightwave transmission. Additional emphasis will be given to the integration of these transmission modes to form complete operator networks. On the final day of the workshop, the participants will construct a complete prototype network using all of the technologies previously discussed. This network will simulate the interconnection of the LANs, MANs, and WANs and use several different transport modes over cable, wireless, and light wave connections.

The workshop begins with an extended overview of telecommunications in the United States examining all modes of transmission including:

• Cable
• Wireless
• Fiber optics
• PSTN
• The Internet
• Voice data and video convergence on one secure network on the Internet
• Participants will breakout into networking, wireless and lightwave specialization groups and spend a day covering the latest emerging technologies in the specified areas.
• On the final day the three groups will regroup and build an integrated telecommunications system that includes network, wireless and lightwave components.

All Workshops will incorporate the same hands on, theory based laboratories that have characterized all NCTT workshops.