Understanding Wireline Telecom Infrastructure and Interception

This one hour webinar is for law enforcement, the intelligence community and others with criminal investigation and intelligence gathering need to know about wireline access networks and basic telecommunications core network technologies.

Agenda:

1. Basic Telecom Building Blocks: Basic Components of the Public Switched Telecommunications Network (PSTN), Legacy Backbone Network Pre-2004 vs. Today's Service Convergence Networks and Basic Infrastructure (Core, Edge, Access and CPE).
   
   
2. Legacy Circuit Switching: Understanding Analog Telephony, TDM, Class 4 & 5 Switching, voice call processing, SS7, and why understanding this is important for LEAs and Intelligence Analysts.
   
   
3. The Internet and VoIP: The players (ISP’s, NSPs and VoIP providers), Understanding the process from voice capture to packetization to PSTN interfacing, Gateways vs. SoftSwitches and Intercept Challenges.
   
   
4. Lawful Interception and OSS/BSS/ISS: What are OSSs, BSSs and ISSs, Where do you retrieve CDRs, Why billing statements have little value, LI Standards (CALEA, ETSI or SWORM) and understand telephone number assignment and/or tracing for Law Enforcement Agents and Intelligence Analysts.
   
   
5. Lawful Interception Challenges: Understanding the top wireline intercept challenges facing law enforcement and the intelligence community.
   
   

Presented By:
Dr. Jerry Lucas
President, TeleStrategies