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New E-Learning Course Explains the Principles of Modern Telecommunications.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c42973) has announced the addition of E-Learning Course: Telecoms Fundamentals to their offering.

Telecoms Fundamentals is aimed at people, perhaps new to telecoms, who need an introduction to the technology underlying modern telecoms. The course is designed to be studied as preparation for the other courses in the StarTel suite.

Pre-requisite: Secondary (high) school education in Physics and/or general electronics/electrical engineering background. In the UK, appropriate pre-requisite qualifications are General Certificate of Secondary Education Noun 1. General Certificate of Secondary Education - the basic level of a subject taken in school
GCSE, O level

England - a division of the United Kingdom
 (GCSE GCSE
1. (in Britain) General Certificate of Secondary Education; an examination in specified subjects which replaced the GCE O level and CSE

2. Informal a pass in a GCSE examination

Noun 1.
) in Physics or BTEC BTEC Business and Technology Education Council (UK)
BTEC Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (Raleigh, NC)
BTEC Business Transformation Executive Committee
 National Vocational Qualification National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) are vocational awards in England & Wales (In Scotland they are known as Scottish Vocational Qualification (SVQ)) that are achieved through assessment and training. They are practical qualifications based on being able to do a job.  (NVQ NVQ n abbr (BRIT) (= national vocational qualification) → título de formación profesional

NVQ n abbr (= National Vocational Qualification) →
) at level 2 in Electronics.

Course Aim: After completing this course a trainee will be able to explain the fundamental principles of the technologies that are the basis of modern telecommunications networks A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. .

The course:

- is accredited accredited

recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria.


accredited herds
cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g.
 by e-skills UK as supporting the achievement of a telecoms National Vocational Qualification at level 3.

- provides in-depth, authoritative technical training.

- employs interactive simulations, hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the  links and question sessions to fully involve the trainee in the learning experience.

- provides personalised Adj. 1. personalised - made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual; "personalized luggage"; "personalized advice"
individualised, individualized, personalized
 training with each trainee able to make his/her on notes and place bookmarks. A record of progress and level of achievement is recorded for each trainee.

- provides a structured assessed course and can also be used to browse for revision or reference.

- can be studied in isolation or as an integrated suite; each course includes revision links to relevant subjects covered in the other StarTel courses.

Accreditation of StarTel courses by e-skills UK, the national, telecoms industry representative body in the United Kingdom

This "introduction to telecoms" suite of four courses have been accredited by e-skills UK as together "providing the underpinning un·der·pin·ning  
n.
1. Material or masonry used to support a structure, such as a wall.

2. A support or foundation. Often used in the plural.

3. Informal The human legs. Often used in the plural.
 knowledge to support the achievement of a Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications.  National Vocational Qualification at level 3". e-skills accreditation of courses is recognised by all major telecoms employers in the UK and beyond.

StarTel

- is a suite of interactive, e-learning courses designed to run under Windows[TM] 98, 2000 or XP.

- provides an introduction to the technical and service aspects of modern telecommunications.

- consists of four separate but integrated courses:
A Telecommunications fundamentals
B Principles of voice processing and transmission
C Telecoms networks
D Telecoms services

The topics covered by this course are:

Analogue signals: Explanations of the terms frequency, phase.
amplitude, power, decibels and bandwidth.

Analogue impairments: Explanations of the terms crosstalk, distortion,
delay, echo, loss and noise
demonstrations of the different impairments.

Digital signals: Advantages of digital signals versus analogue
explanations of the terms bits, bytes and bit rate.

Digital impairments: Causes of errors
explanation of the term BER
explanation of error detection and error correction (FEC)
demonstration of the effects of errors.

Basic data: Components of a simple data link inc. DTE and DCE
functional aspects of physical interfaces
role of and interaction between application, communication and
network protocols
the structure of the OSIRM.

Synchronous and asynchronous operation: Principles and comparison
between synchronous and asynchronous links
transport of asynchronous traffic over synchronous links.

Modulation and line codes: Principles and typical applications of AM,
FSK, PSK, QAM, HDB3, 2B1Q and GMSK.

Multiplexing Part 1: Principles and typical applications of SDM
and TDM.

Multiplexing Part 2: Principles and typical applications of WDM,
TDMA, FDMA

Packet switching: Principles of address (packet) multiplexing,
statistical multiplexing gain, principles and advantages of packet
switching, connectionless operation.


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