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What do we mean by Telecoms?
The word Telecoms can mean
different things to different people. The courses that we categorise as
'Telecoms' are those that deal with the design, installation, operation
and maintenance of long distance fibre optic communications networks.
This may involve various parts of a long distance network from core
networks between cities, links around a metropolitan area (MANs) or
access networks which provide the final link to the subscriber.
The City & Guilds 3666-03
course defines this as 'external' cabling or outside plant cabling and
for an installer typically one of the key tasks is cable jointing
carries out in an external environment and involving much more complex
fibre management than is generally needed in a LAN (Local Area Network)
environment. Cables are terminated into Optical Distribution Frames by
splicing on pigtails and the testing of installed telecoms links is more
complicated than it is for LANs.
Is your telecoms our datacomms?
If by telecoms you mean the
installation of telephone systems, telephone cabling or local area
network data cabling around buildings or between buildings on campus
sites such as schools, universities, hospitals etc then we'd recommend
that you look at our range of
datacomms IT
cabling courses.
The City & Guilds 3666-02
course defines this as 'internal' cabling because typically most of the
cabling is indoors or is at least terminated indoors and most of the key
tasks are performed in an indoor environment (with the possible
exception of cable placement in a campus backbone). This may include
singlemode as well as multimode fibre and both are covered on the
3666-02 course.
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