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Expert Witness Service

Even before our inception in 1989, TC International Consulting, Inc. had developed expertise in various technologies. Our experts have undertaken cases in the areas of patent infringement, theft of trade secrets, technology licensing, and other intellectual property disputes. In addition, our experts have supported patent portfolio analysis licensing studies and numerous industry projects.

Mr. Bates has been involved in the industry long enough to understand the technologies inside and out. He has been a consulting expert in many cases involving wireless technologies and a testifying expert in several cases dealing with wireless networks (cellular, GSM, 3G, LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi, and SMS) and wired networks (PBX, Data, VoIP, 800 services). His ability to sort through the jargon and clearly speak to intellectual property infringement aids his clients in determining what avenue to pursue.

Whether it is on telephone equipment or operations, Voice over the Internet Protocol, Voice over Wi-Fi, or Wireless Technologies (Wi-Fi, Cellular, GSM, SMS, etc.), we have the experience to help you sort through the maze of jargon and claims by the various parties involved. Consider TC International Consulting, Inc. when looking for that expert!

More than two-thirds of our engagements come from existing clients; some have come from opposing counsel and opposing witnesses, which is a true testament to the quality of our experts and our service.

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Instructor-Led Training

As the convergence of voice, data, and security needs accelerates, who will train your people? This is the question that TC International Consulting, Inc. is well-prepared to answer. We will train you, your staff, or even your boss. Using analogies, real-world examples, and presentations that define the industry, TC International Consulting, Inc. is now offering at least 20 current training sessions that are presented on-site worldwide.

Training topics include:

  • Understanding VoIP hands-on!
  • Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Security
  • MPLS
  • DWDM
  • IPv6
  • Wireless LAN Security is hands-on!
  • Wireless LAN Technologies Issues and Implementations hands-on!
  • Understanding ATM
  • Voice Communications Demystified
  • SS7 Fundamentals
  • Introduction to LAN/WAN Networking
  • Wi-Fi and WIMAX Technologies Defined
  • Data Communications Demystified
  • Data and Internet Communications: Technical Focus
  • Fundamentals of Telecommunications for the non-technical person
  • GPRS Overview
  • Introduction to T1/T3 Networking
  • Understanding Data Communications
  • Understanding Wireless and Cellular Communications
  • Short Message Services Demystified
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Consulting Services

TC International Consulting, Inc. practices the 3 steps of wireless networking technology selection! What do we mean by 3 steps?

We need collaborative wireless tools and technologies.

  1. Untethered communications solutions go well beyond the desktop IP phone by extending your coverage to VoIP phones, PDAs, cell phones, Laptops, and any new IP-enabled device.
  2. Applications such as e-mail, voicemail, instant messaging, or text messaging are a given
  3. Presence capabilities to access contact availability and communication preference (phone, e-mail, instant messaging, or text message) is a must
  4. Audio- and video-conferencing capabilities are needed to allow users to share documents on demand

It must be an intuitive technological Implementation.

  1. Wired and wireless IP networking technologies bring a whole new dimension to corporate connectivity and the use of data. We encourage deploying these
  2. Device-specific applications running on laptop and netbook computers, PDAs, mobile phones, smartphones, and wireless IP phones need ease-of-use tools to be of value.
  3. Training and uptake should be easy for the user.
  4. Security solutions are needed to prevent unauthorized access and information gathering

It must be an intuitive technological Implementation.

  1. Network-aware applications bind the pieces together
  2. Wireless LAN’s must aid in getting location-based services on mobile devices, assets, and people throughout a building
  3. Active and passive RF identification (RFID) and 802.11 tags need to be smart enough to alert you that assets have moved, changed conditions like volume, speed, direction, and availability

Our goals are to seek, understand, use, and recommend the appropriate solution with this model in mind. TC International Consulting, Inc. consults with varied clients needing wired and wireless innovation and integration. Our projects have saved clients hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars annually for our clients. We implement major global data communications networks or small corporate domestic networks. Whether it is a major communications manufacturer, a cellular technologies’ provider, a home entertainment electronics company, or a major Insurance carrier, we cover the vertical and horizontal needs of our clients.

Our consulting practice also involves financial justification, technology selection, and implementation coordination, as you need. We do only as much as you need us to do so that you get the necessary ownership and buy-in within the corporate departments.

We Offer a Wide Variety of Communications Consulting Services, Such as
  • Strategic Planning
  • Needs Assessment
  • Developing Requests for Information (RFI)
  • Producing Requests for Proposals RFP
  • Analyzing Responses/Bids
  • Project Justification
  • Assessing the Correct Responses
  • Vendor Selection
  • Project Management and Implementation
  • Senior Management Presentations

We Offer These Services in the Following Areas

  • Wide Area Networks
  • Corporate Wired and Wireless Integration
  • Voice over IP Communications Studies
  • Strategic Planning and Financial Justifications for Technology Integration
  • VoIP Systems
  • Wi-Fi and WIMAX networks
  • Cellular, GSM, 3/4G, and LTE
  • Expert Witness Services on Telecom and Wireless Networks
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Books By Bud Bates

Voice and Data Communications Handbook, Fifth Edition

Get the most comprehensive and definitive reference covering the latest in networking and telecommunications technologies. This easy-to-understand resource contains comprehensive coverage of this fast-growing industry, featuring new material on wireless protocols, Wi-Fi, optical networking, and high-speed broadband services. You’ll learn everything from basic concepts to practical implementation techniques on topics ranging from digital signaling and virtual private networks to frame relay and fiber optics. The book includes detailed explanations and hands-on examples of setting up VoIP, SIP, and modem communications. This updated edition is straightforward and jargon-free and is highly useful for anyone wanting to understand the latest advances in telecommunications and the rapidly evolving field of voice and data communications.

This book will show you how to:

  1. Work with new wireless technologies, including 3G, WAP, and wireless LAN’s
  2. Get details on high-speed broadband services, including xDSL and CATV
  3. Transmit data securely through use of VPNs and remote access networks
  4. Learn about voice-over IP and voice-over data services
  5. Understand methods of computer-to-telephony integration
  6. Trace the evolution of the T-Carrier and T1 systems
  7. Discover the advantages of using packet-switching technology
  8. Find out about optical systems-including SONET and Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM)
  9. Get a “hands-on” perspective on how to set up modem communications
  10. Get detailed instructions on using a VoIP connection through an analog terminal adapter

Principles of Voice and Data Communications (A Textbook)

Principles of Voice and Data Communication is a technology book for the non-technical student, a comprehensive overview of the entire networking industry built on unrivaled real-world experience. With its helpful pedagogy, teaching support, and student-friendly tone, Principles of Voice and Data Communication gives students the foundation they need to enter and succeed in the technology and communications fields.

About the Authors

Regis J. “Bud” Bates (Heber, AZ), president of TC International Consulting, Inc., has over 50 years of experience in telecommunications and information systems. He is a wireless systems expert who specializes in network operations and planning. Bates is the author of more than 20 technology-oriented books.

Marcus D. Bates teaches wireless and networking courses for a variety of organizations. He has nearly seven years of telecommunications experience selling voice and data services for AT&T and a CLEC during the turn of the century. In the past twelve + years, he has been a consultant/trainer at TC International Consulting, Inc. His work at TC International Consulting, Inc. has been instrumental in training curriculum development in Telecom, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and Six Sigma. He is an RF Design Engineer for WIMAX and instructs on Wi-Fi in just about every topic (configurations, security, installation, and troubleshooting). He is well-versed in Wi-Fi mesh technologies, CTP certification, CCSI, and more.

Voice and Data Communications Handbook, Fourth Edition

The most comprehensive and definitive reference covering the latest in networking and telecommunications technologies. Featuring new material on wireless protocols, optical networking, and high-speed broadband services, this easy-to-understand resource contains comprehensive coverage of this fast-growing industry. You’ll learn everything from basic concepts to practical implementation techniques on topics ranging from digital signaling and virtual private networks to frame relay and fiber optics. Straightforward and jargon-free, this updated edition is highly useful for anyone wanting to understand the latest advances in telecommunications and the rapidly evolving field of voice and data communications.

This book will show you how to:

  1. Work with new wireless technologies, including 3G, WAP, and wireless LAN’s
  2. Get details on high-speed broadband services, including xDSL and CATV
  3. Transmit data securely through use of VPNs and remote access networks
  4. Learn about voice-over IP and voice-over data services
  5. Understand methods of computer-to-telephony integration
  6. Trace the evolution of the T-Carrier and T1 systems
  7. Discover the advantages of using packet-switching technology
  8. Find out about optical systems-including SONET and Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM)

GPRS: General Packet Radio Services Make Sense of GPRS!

Without wasted words, telecom expert R. J. “Bud” Bates – whose earlier books are industry classics – clarifies the features, functions, and structure of lightning-fast, always-on GPRS, the 2.5G technology (and beyond) setting the pace in handheld access

GPRS EXPOSED

Get the practical answers you need to integrate, implement, and enable GPRS in your system for fast, direct wireless Internet access.

This unique volume gives you working information on GPRS and its applications. Heavily illustrated and featuring x-ray-type coverage, GPRS reveals functions, layers, and architecture in a way that’s most useful to those providing or applying GPRS services.

SEE IT LAYER BY LAYER

You get a straightforward, orderly presentation of how GPRS works, how it connects to the Internet, and how to implement it. No matter whether you need answers on architecture or advanced interface issues, look inside to get the facts on:

The complete layout of the GPRS system architecture

Function of GPRS elements

All layers described, unpacked and explained

Interfaces–radio and MS-PCUSN, MS-SGSN, PCUSN-SGSN, SGSN-GGSN, and GGSN-PDN

There’s no other guide that delivers GPRS anatomy, physiology, and function like this one. For an unequaled hands-on manual to this increasingly popular technology – one that can help you put services in place quickly and profitably – there is no guide, but Bud Bates GPRS will do.

Optical Switching and Networking Handbook

Optical Switching and Networking Handbook may sound like the bible of optical networks and switching systems. Not so! This is not an engineering book and will not dig into the gory details of bits and bytes, ohms and lambdas, etc. For the financial and businessperson, the title may have a tendency to scare you away, thinking that it is a technical book. Please persevere and read on. This book was written for you so that you can understand the various developments and challenges of using or investing in optical networks. If you are an investor or a VC who needs to understand the future demand for the products, then Regis J. “Bud” Bates has addressed that. If you are a telecommunications manager looking for services from providers, Bud has addressed that, too! What this is all about is the demystification process of the technologies. This optical networking book is being branded as part of a continuing series of books that are geared toward a specific market niche.

Wireless Broadband Handbook

This book is about the evolution and emergence of the wireless world for the new millennium. Several changes are afoot in wireless architecture, including new standards, applications, and technologies that are all rapidly coming to fruition. What we lack in this industry is a good business-based book that describes the changes taking place, the protocols being developed, and the products being introduced. This book will attempt to deal with these issues based on the business need, not strictly the technical aspects of the systems. Further, it will break the components apart in three ways:

  1. What is it?
  2. What’s it going to do for me?
  3. How much is it going to cost?

What is all the hype about wireless communications? This new era of technology convergence combines voice and data communications across untethered communications and switching systems. This new class of next-generation products and protocols will provide interconnectivity no matter what architectural decision you
make. If you are a “vintage voice communicator,” the wireless world has considerable merit because the industry is far more mobile. If you are a “pioneering data user,” then the future holds many future innovations and will tease you with the various implementations. If you are a “forward thinker,” then the industry offers unheard-of opportunities to connect anywhere and anytime. What is your preference?

The bottlenecks in the past were the different communications technologies selected by various providers and manufacturers. Bandwidth constraints created bottlenecks in the shared channel media. The applications were not ready, but several essential ingredients had been developed to shake the cake into the mold. See where the growth is going to take off. Watch as a new form of Internet access emerges and unfolds before your very eyes. We believe that this one book will arm you with all the information needed to make valued business decisions on the technologies, applications, and past implementations. The author of this book is Regis J. “Bud” Bates.

Wireless Networked Communications

Wireless Networked Communications is a forward-thinking discussion on the present and future use of untethered communications. This guide balances managerial and technical issues to present a solid, readable foundation for understanding and implementing wireless transmission systems in a broad range of corporate environments. At last, here is a single source of information for telecommunications and LAN managers, network planners and others who want a clear explanation of today’s wireless communications systems and how to implement them. The author of Wireless Networked Communications is Regis J. “Bud” Bates.

Nortel Networks Layer 3 Switching

Nortel Networks Layer 3 Switching details the networking efficiencies of Layer 3 switching, a hybrid approach that allows administrators to steer traffic correctly across a network while avoiding routing overhead by keeping peripheral traffic out of the networking Layer. Telecommunications experts Regis J. “Bud” Bates and Zeecil Kimmel, NNCSSTM, examine Layer 3 switching over the full range of standard networks, ultimately reinventing router methodology. Administrators, engineers, and IT professionals of any level can use this authoritative handbook to develop far superior networking capacity vital to an industry that increasingly revolves around speed.

Broadband Telecommunications Handbook 2nd Edition

Broadband Telecommunications Handbook 2nd Edition picks up where the Voice & Data Communications Handbook leaves off. The overall changes occurring in the communications industry will mold the way we do business in the future. What was once considered mundane in voice & data communications businesses has now been supercharged with the convergence of communications and computer technologies. To understand what the telecommunications professional really needs to know, there are several basic principles that must be followed. This book looks at the concept of technology, followed by the deployment issues & then the use of the technology as it is implemented. Broadband Telecommunications Handbook is authored by Regis J. “Bud” Bates.

Hands-On Client/Server Internet working

Hands-On Client/Server Internet working covers everything needed to implement the server side of client/server computing. This comprehensive introduction explains how to connect multiple computing platforms using the client/server architecture. While there are many references devoted to the data/application aspect of this technology, this is the first book that focuses on how to connect multiple platforms using the client/server architecture. It is a step-by-step guide to connectivity communications and internet working. Client/Server Internet working covers the entire range of hardware, such as bridges, hubs, routers, etc., and software, such as HP’s OpenView and NetView/6000, that must interrelate to make the communications side of the C/S paradigm work. The book is fully illustrated and loaded with extensive application cases. Client/Server Internetworking includes important network management material on SNMP, OpenView, and NetView/6000. Also detailed are both TCP/IP and SNA/APPN networks for network administrators, network analysts, and network designers. The author of Hands-On Client/Server Internet working is Regis J. “Bud” Bates

Securing VoIP: Keeping Your VoIP Network Safe

Securing VoIP: Keeping Your VoIP Network Safe will show you how to take the initiative to prevent hackers from recording and exploiting your company’s secrets. Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and case studies, technology guru Bud Bates discusses the business realities that necessitate VoIP system security and the threats to VoIP over both wire and wireless networks. He also provides essential guidance on how to conduct system security audits and how to integrate your existing IT security plan with your VoIP system and security plans, helping you prevent security breaches and eavesdropping.

Explain the business case for securing VoIP Systems

  1. Presents hands-on tools that show how to defend a VoIP network against attack.
  2. Provides detailed case studies and real-world examples drawn from the authors’ consulting practice.
  3. Discusses the pros and cons of implementing VoIP and why it may not be right for everyone.
  4. Covers the security policies and procedures that need to be in place to keep VoIP communications safe.

Introduction To T1 / T3 Networking

Introduction To T1 / T3 Networking is a guide to understanding telecommunications technology and how to use these services to increase productivity, decrease costs, and integrate all your needs into a single high-speed communications infrastructure. The author of Introduction To T1/T3 Networking is Regis J. “Bud” Bates.

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