Alcatel Extends Vendor-Neutral IT Course To Enterprise Solution Providers Through NACSE.Business Editors CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2003 Leading Non-Profit IT Credentialing Credentialing is the administrative process for validating the qualifications of licensed professionals, organizational members or organizations, and assessing their background and legitimacy. Organization to Adopt Alcatel's Fundamentals of Communications Course Alcatel (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ALA) today announced that it is offering its standards-based foundational education course as an integral part of the National Association of Communication Systems Engineers' (NACSE NACSE Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering NACSE National Association of Communications Systems Engineers (non-profit) NACSE National Association of Classified School Employees ) Endorsed Provider Compliant Partner Program. Alcatel's Fundamentals of Communications is a vendor-independent IT course designed to develop and reinforce fundamental knowledge of voice and data networking. NACSE, a leading independent IT certification vendor, recently introduced the NACSE Endorsed Provider program to raise the bar in IT service delivery through professional development. Targeted at IT distributors like VARs and resellers, the Program is intended to establish sound and proven business practices, standards and guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. that will continue to grow and expand with the industry. To complement the Program, the Fundamentals of Communications will help ensure everyone in the NACSE Endorsed Provider community understands at least the general aspects of the IT industry and how it works. This Web-based course covering the standards of data, voice, and converged communications can be conveniently accessed online anytime and anywhere. "Alcatel is to be commended for their strong commitment to foundational, vendor-neutral IT education and lending their sizeable and influential support to the first Quality Standards program focused on IT channel partners in the industry," said Bob Kile, executive director, NACSE. "The Fundamentals of Communications course builds on Alcatel's strategic initiative to support open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced and vendor-neutral practices," said Tom Wilburn, general manager, Alcatel North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. enterprise business. "By offering the course through the NACSE Endorsed Provider program, Alcatel hopes to share its vision of IP communications A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony. across open, multi-vendor networks with NACSE certified See certification. IT professionals around the world." Alcatel's Fundamentals of Communications is a vendor-neutral theoretical course designed to optimize the understanding, implementation and use of communication technologies such as telephones, data switching, local area network design, virtual private networks, quality of service and security, as well as provide insight into technological innovations of the future. For more information about the Fundamentals of Communications, visit http://www.ind.alcatel.com/fundamentals. About NACSE Endorsed Provider program The NACSE Endorsed Provider program covers a wide range of quality standard, best practices topics including: ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a in IT, project management, conflict avoidance and an array of administrative as well as educational requirements. The program is designed to fit both the small channel partner firms with two or three people, to large national organizations with thousands of employees. To register as a NACSE Endorsed Provider partner, visit http://www.neppro.org. About NACSE NACSE is the leading vendor-neutral IT credentialing organization worldwide. Formed as a non-profit, IT standards professional organization in 1993, NACSE currently has more than 16,000 certified members worldwide and partners with more than 400 colleges and universities who deliver NACSE endorsed curriculum. In addition, NACSE has more than 600 NACSE Certified member/instructors and is the only organization that requires annual, ongoing re-certification in order to keep its members' skills current and up to date. For more information, visit NACSE on the Internet: http://www.nacse.com. About Alcatel Alcatel designs, develops and builds innovative and competitive communications networks The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. , enabling carriers, service providers and enterprises to deliver any type of content, such as voice, data and multimedia, to any type of consumer, anywhere in the world. Relying on its leading and comprehensive products and solutions portfolio, stretching from end-to-end optical infrastructures, fixed and mobile networks to broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. , Alcatel's customers can focus on optimizing their service offerings and revenue streams. With sales of $22 billion in 2001, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. In 2001, the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. was the largest single market served by Alcatel. For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet: http://www.alcatel.com. |
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