COURSE CATALOGUE

Data Centre, Telecom & AI Infrastructure Courses

Sixteen courses from beginner to advanced, organised in four tracks and three levels. Each course is designed around the skills that colocation providers, hyperscale cloud operators and telecom carriers look for, and combines self-paced downloadable materials with optional live online sessions.

Browse by track:

Foundation: no experience needed

Professional: some experience

Expert: experienced practitioners

TRACK 1

Data Centre Infrastructure

The physical building blocks of the data centre: white space, racks, power and cooling fundamentals, cabling and design standards.

Rows of server racks in a data centre hall
Aisle between rows of equipment racks in a data centre

Foundation

24 h indicative

Data Centre Technician Foundation

Your first step into the data centre: how facilities work, what technicians do every day and how to work safely and accurately on the data hall floor.

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Data centre white space with racks and overhead cable trays

Professional

40 h indicative

Flagship

Data Centre Infrastructure Specialist

TDI’s flagship programme: a complete, vendor-neutral view of data centre infrastructure, covering power, cooling, cabling, resilience, monitoring and operations.

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Rack row and mesh colocation cage in a data centre

Expert

32 h indicative

Data Centre Design & Standards

Advanced design principles for resilient, efficient facilities, covering topics aligned with EN 50600, ISO/IEC 22237, TIA-942 and ANSI/BICSI 002.

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TRACK 2

Critical Facilities & Operations

Operating and maintaining mission-critical power and cooling plant safely, from shift procedures to site leadership.

Rooftop cooling plant with large fans
Technician wearing a safety helmet and high-visibility jacket

Foundation

8 h indicative

Health & Safety for Data Centre and Telecom Sites

Essential safety awareness for anyone working in data centres, exchanges, rooftops and telecom sites.

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Electrical switchgear room with rows of distribution panels

Professional

32 h indicative

Critical Power & Cooling

How UPS systems, generators, switchgear, chillers and CRAH units keep a facility running, and how to operate them safely.

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Technician inspecting a UPS battery bank

Professional

32 h indicative

Data Centre Operations & Maintenance

Running a facility day to day: procedures, maintenance programmes, incident and change management, and documentation.

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Technician on a lift working on overhead cable trays

Expert

32 h indicative

Data Centre Operations Management

Leading data centre operations: SLAs, staffing, risk, budgets, customers and continual improvement across a site or portfolio.

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TRACK 3

Fibre & Telecom Networks

From fibre termination and splicing to FTTx, DWDM, 5G transport and IP/MPLS networks run by telecom carriers.

Field worker in high-visibility clothing carrying a coil of blue cable
Wiring frames in a telephone exchange

Foundation

16 h indicative

Telecom & Network Fundamentals

The essential vocabulary, architecture and technologies of modern telecom and data networks.

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Fibre patch cords terminated in a patch panel

Foundation

24 h indicative

Structured Cabling & Fibre Termination

Hands-on cabling skills that data centre and telecom employers ask for: copper and fibre termination, testing, labelling and documentation.

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Engineer patching fibre into optical transport equipment

Professional

32 h indicative

Fibre Optic Networks: FTTx & DWDM

From splicing and OTDR analysis to FTTx architectures and DWDM transport, for fibre technicians and engineers.

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Technicians working on rooftop mobile antennas

Professional

32 h indicative

Modern Telecom Networks: 5G, Transport & IP/MPLS

How telecom carriers build today’s networks: 5G RAN and transport, optical and packet networks, IP/MPLS, timing and operations.

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Labelled cross-connect blocks on a main distribution frame

Expert

24 h indicative

Network Migration & Modernisation

Planning and executing the migration of legacy telecom and data centre infrastructure with minimal service disruption.

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TRACK 4

AI & Future Infrastructure

High-density AI and HPC infrastructure, high-speed optical fabrics, liquid cooling and energy-efficient operations.

Dense network cabling in a data centre
High-speed fibre connections on a network switch

Professional

24 h indicative

AI Networking & High-Speed Optical Cabling

The physical layer of AI clusters: 400G/800G optics, InfiniBand and RoCE fabrics, and structured cabling for GPU pods.

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High-density server cooling fans and liquid-cooling pipework

Expert

32 h indicative

AI Data Centre Infrastructure: GPU, HPC & Liquid Cooling

Designing and operating high-density AI and HPC environments: 50-150 kW racks, liquid cooling, power distribution and commissioning.

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Solar panels and a wind turbine

Professional

16 h indicative

Sustainability & Energy Efficiency

Legal frameworks, efficiency metrics and technical measures for reducing energy and water use across data centres and telecom sites.

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EVERY COURSE INCLUDES

What You Receive

All TDI courses share the same learning format.

Learning materials

  • Downloadable course handbook (PDF)
  • Presentation slides for each module
  • Practical checklists and worksheets

Assessment & certificate

  • Module quizzes to check your understanding
  • Final assessment
  • TDI certificate of completion

Format

Self-paced downloadable materials with optional live online sessions. Durations are indicative and depend on your prior experience and pace.

For organisations, courses can also be delivered on site or as virtual instructor-led sessions.

TDI certificates of completion are issued by TelecomDigitalInfra. They are not third-party certifications and do not imply accreditation by, or equivalence to, any external certification scheme.