Systems and Signals


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number


Overview/Description
To explain the purpose of signaling within a telecommunications network

Target Audience
Technical professionals; IT and business managers who need to learn about wide area network technologies; students investigating or researching telecommunications technologies; nontechnical business managers, project managers, and end-users who require information on the capabilities of communications technologies to make informed decisions on communications implementations

Prerequisites
An understanding of telecommunication fundamentals, basic data communications, internetworking, and LAN technologies

Expected Duration (hours)
5.3

Lesson Objectives

Systems and Signals

  • discuss the evolution of signaling and its purpose on a telecommunications network.
  • identify signal units and network elements used in SS7.
  • describe the types of subscriber signaling systems.
  • describe the types of interexchange signaling.
  • differentiate between the different forms of signaling.
  • describe the origin and functions of SS7.
  • describe the signaling points in an SS7 network and the links used to communicate between them.
  • describe the format of signal units used in SS7.
  • discuss the role of the three Message Transfer Part (MTP) layers in an SS7 network.
  • discuss the role of SCCP in routing signaling traffic and TCAP in accessing remote databases and other network facilities.
  • describe the function of the ISDN user part (ISUP) of the SS7 protocol stack.
  • identify the different protocols in the SS7 protocol stack and their functions.
  • describe the operation of D-channel network-layer protocols in ISDN.
  • explain the details of LAPD in ISDN.
  • discuss ISDN signaling and supplementary services in public and corporate networks.
  • identify the different stages of ISDN signaling.

    • Course Number:
    78568_eng