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Key Points:

Qualification : City and Guilds 3667-03 Unit 3

Awarding Body : City & Guilds

Prerequisites : Principles of Design or Previous Experience

Course Duration : 5 Days

Location : Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire

Instructor Ratio : 8:1

About The Design and Planning of Overhead Course:

The City and Guilds 3667-03 Unit 3 Design and Plan for an External Overhead Network Cabling Infrastructure is an optional unit that can be done alongside Unit 1.

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This unit will provide the candidate with the basic principles needed to plan an external overhead cable route. Candidates will be able to develop an understanding of how an external overhead communications infrastructure is are specified, planned and provided.

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There are five learning outcomes to this unit:

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• prepare for and carry out a site survey for the provision of an external overhead telecoms infrastructure

• produce preliminary designs for the provision of an external overhead communications cabling infrastructure and select the optimum solution

• produce a design for the provision of an external overhead communications cabling infrastructure

• produce detailed plans for an external overhead communications cabling infrastructure

• determine the workflow activities for the provision of an external overhead communications cabling infrastructure.

Once the full course is completed, candidates may progress onto additional modules listed below:

• Planning & Design of Enterprise Networks

• Planning & Design of Outside Plant Underground Networks

Or into either employment, a Foundation Degree or to a HLQ Diploma for IT Practitioners (City and Guilds) 

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