The training programs listed below are designed for the corporation’s employees ONLY.
Business Management Technologies Solutions (360 hours)
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
This course provides a survey of the fundamentals of data communications and networks. It begins with a look at important aspects of data communications, data networks, and the Internet along with key facets of protocol architectures, TCP/IP, and Internet-Based applications. The concepts and terminology centered on data transmission, transmission media, signaling encoding techniques, and error detection/correction are also covered. The course wraps-up with a look at the value of data link control protocols and multiplexing in data communications and networks today. Multimedia content and interactive simulations are used throughout to reinforce course concepts.
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
The ACS Wireless LAN Technologies series provides students with an introduction to the world of wireless local area network (WLAN) technology that is impacting every sector of our interconnected world today. This series will help the student develop core knowledge centered in WLAN standards and a conceptual understanding of the design, communication and components that enable WLANs. The course also provides foundational exposure to core objectives centered in the Certified Wireless Technology Specialist (PWO-071) certification in the Certified Wireless Network Professional certification path.
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
Wireless technologies permit two-way communications that are impossible or impractical to implement with the use of wires. Wireless encompasses various types of fixed, mobile, and portable applications, including public safety radios, cellular telephones, smart phones, tablets, and various sensors devices. This course provides students with an introduction to the world of wireless technology that is impacting every sector of our interconnected world today. The course helps the student develop core knowledge centered in wireless standards and a conceptual understanding of the design, communication and components that enable current wireless technologies including 3G and ultimately 4G (LTE).
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
This is the first course in a three part series that prepares the student for the CCENT/CCNA ICND1 certification exam. This course begins by discussing the purpose, role, and basic operations of the OSI and TCP/IP models and surveys Ethernet and other key technologies that enable local and wide area networks. The course continues with a detailed review of the classful IPv4 address and the end to end routing process. The course also takes a comprehensive look at the variety of ways the command line interface can be leveraged to navigate common switch configuration modes to manage the internetwork operating system. The course wraps-up with a review of key factors that impact the configuration and management of local area networks, the creation of virtual local area networks, and a methodical process that should be considered when analyzing, troubleshooting, and resolving problems in a Layer 2 environment.
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
This course provides students with an introduction to the world of project management. This course will help the student develop core knowledge centered in project management concepts that include project initiation, planning, scheduling, communications, cost, execution, change, control, and closure. The course also provides foundational exposure to core objectives centered on the CompTIA Project+ certification.
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
This course provides the fundamental knowledge that enables the student to pass the FCC Element 1 Marine Radio Operator’s Permit exam, and the FCC Element 3 General Radio Operator’s License (GROL) exam. FCC Element 1 provides basic radio law and operating practice to become familiar with aircraft, ship, and other FCC licensed radio communications equipment. FCC Element 3 provides general electrical and electronic knowledge required to repair and maintain radio transmitters and receivers. The General Radio Operator’s License is recognized by several employers as evidence of knowledge in the radio telecommunications field.
Business Communications Information Systems (360 hours)
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
The DigitalTechnology Skillsprogram, offered in conjunction with the Basic Electricitycourse, provides participants with beginning level information in digital information. The program opens with a review of basic electricity concepts necessary for understanding digital electronics. The course then moves into basic digital technology information and skills. Some of the topics covered in the course include A/C and D/C current and signal conversion, electrical formulas and symbols, circuit components, analog and digital information, and digital logic.
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
This is the third course in a three part series that prepares the student for the CCENT/CCNA ICND1 certification exam. This course begins with a review of IPv4 troubleshooting tools that should be used to methodically analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve problems in an internetwork. The course further introduces access control lists and network address translation with a keen focus placed on the proper application and placement of access control lists and the differences between static, dynamic, and port address translation. The course continues with a look at the need for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) today, the unique protocols and addressing construct that enable the deployment of IPv6 networks and the key implementation factors that impact IPv6 routing. The course wraps-up by exploring device management, IOS file management, and licensing principles and concepts.
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of fiber optic systems used in the telecommunications industry. The course begins with a discussion of the optical concepts related to light waves, and an explanation of how light carrying information propagates down the fiber. The course progresses with a description of the optical components used in fiber optic systems including light sources, optical fiber types, connectors, types of cables and their use, and photodetectors. Different splicing techniques are discussed as well as the use of several test instruments to measure fiber optic systems performance. Techniques to develop a fiber optic system link budget considering system losses are also introduced. Students will be engaged in an extensive hands-on lab giving an opportunity to demonstrate and test what they have learned.
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
This course provides students with an understanding of high voltage protection equipment used in power substations to maintain in operation critical telecommunications systems also during a fault (power surge, lightning, etc.). It also explains how telecommunications systems are integrated into the power transmission systems and are used to isolate the faulted zones during an outage. Methods to calculate the Ground Potential Rise (GPR) and the Zone of Interest (ZOI) during a fault are thoroughly explained. Finally, the course introduces the safety gear and discusses the rules to be observed in high voltage environment during installation and maintenance.
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of fiber optic systems used in the telecommunications industry today. The course begins with a discussion on light propagation and the introduction of various types of optical fibers. The main building blocks of a fiber optic system are then discussed from the light sources to the photodetectors, including connectors and fiber optic cables used for any type of environment. Optical transport systems such as SONET and OTN along with FTTx architectures and Passive Optical Networks used to implement broadband access networks based on fibers are then explored. Students will learn about the system design criteria used to build an efficient fiber optic system such as performance versus cost and loss budget considerations. Finally, several test equipment tools used for installation and troubleshooting purposes are introduced, including the Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR). Safety rules in handling optical fibers are also reviewed. At the end of the course, students will be engaged in an extensive hands-on lab where they will apply what they have learned to splice and troubleshoot optical fibers with various methods.
Class Delivery Type: ONLINE
This is the first course in a two part series that prepares the student for the CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 certification exam. This course begins with a review of virtual LAN (VLAN) switching concepts, explains the underpinning need for, configuration, and verification of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), and introduces a methodical process to predict normal behaviors to enhance Layer 2 LAN and VLAN analysis, troubleshooting, and problem resolution. This part continues with a survey of OSPF and EIGRP protocol operation in IPv4 environments and offers a methodical process that can be employed to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve dynamic routing problems. The course wraps-up with a comprehensive look at point to point, Ethernet, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and virtual private networks (VPNs) as private wide area network (WAN) service alternatives.