3G/4G/5G Radio & Core

Programs	Duration	Who should attend	Brief	Skill Level	Outline
3G Cellular Networking	3	Personnel from network planning, operations, field technicians, rollout, radio access, transmission, core, VAS, IT & services platforms	This program builds a foundation of underpinning knowledge in 3G/UMTS networks and forms a basis for more advanced, practical programs related to 3G. Covers network evolution, operation of the air interface, access & transmission, core and VAS/services platforms.	“Fundamental””Core”” Skill”
Understanding LTE	3	Personnel from network planning, operations, field technicians, rollout, radio access, transmission, core, VAS, IT & services platforms	This program builds a foundation of underpinning knowledge in 4G/LTE networks and forms a basis for more advanced, practical programs related to 4G. Covers network evolution, operation of the air interface, LTE access & transmission, core and LTE services platforms.	“Fundamental “”Core”” Skill”
Fundamentals of RF Communications	2	Personnel from network planning, operations, field technicians, rollout, radio access, transmission, core, VAS, IT & services platforms	This program builds skills in planning & managing an IPv6 network. Covers address planning, address deployment & management, protocol analysis, IPv6 applications and interworking & migration between IPv6 and IPv4	Intermediate
UMTS Signalling Protocols & Procedures with HSPA	5	Personnel from network planning, operations, radio access, transmission & core	This program builds skills in analysing & troubleshooting signalling flows and protocol flows end-to-end in a UMTS & HSPA network environment, using a protocol analyser and network traces & logs. Covers user and control plane protocols, interface structure, connection life cycle, broadcast channel structure, system channels, soft and hard handovers.	Intermediate
Principles of 3G Radio Network Planning	4	Personnel from network planning, optimisation & radio access	This program builds skills in planning a 3G radio network including dimensioning & planning for both coverage and capacity. Covers coverage & capacity, dimensioning parameters, use of a planning tool, link budgets, common planning models.	Intermediate
Circuit Core Protocols & Procedures	3	Personnel from network planning, operations, core & VAS	This program builds skills in understanding & analysing circuit core protocols and messaging flows. Covers R99 & R4 architecture, softswitching, Sigtran, network architecture, network elements, HLR/HSS & circuit core service plaforms	Intermediate
Packet Core Protocols & Procedures	3	Personnel from network planning, operations, core & VAS	This program builds skills in understanding & analysing circuit core protocols and messaging flows. Covers packet core architecture, address management, network elements & packet core service plaforms	Intermediate
3G/UMTS Network Parameters & Optimisation	7	Personnel from network planning, optimisation & radio access	This program builds skills in understanding & optimising network parameters for 3G/HSPA network configurations, using parameter settings specific to your network and vendor. It is split into 3 modules: – Coverage & capacity – Reselections & handovers – Packet data & broadband	Intermediate
Next Generation Transport Networks (NGTN)	3	Personnel from network planning, operations, radio access & transmission	This program builds a foundation of underpinning knowledge in transmission networks and forms a basis for more advanced, practical programs related to transmission. Covers the key packet-based options for transmission, both wired and wireless/microwave, including Metro Ethernet, MPLS (L2/L3) and NG-SDH.	Intermediate
Certified IP Professional (CIPP) – QoS & Traffic Engineering	5	Personnel from network planning, operations, field technicians, rollout, radio access, transmission, core, VAS & services platforms	This program builds skills in designing, deploying and monitoring QoS in packet switched networks. Covers implementing QoS at L2/L3, planning QoS for a range of services, ensuring end to end QoS consistency, planning real-time packet services, monitoring & measuring quality in a multi-service network.	Advanced/ Specialist
Certified IP Professional (CIPP) – Troubleshooting IP Services	12	Personnel from network planning, operations, radio access, transmission, core & interconnect	This program builds skills in designing and deploying a transport network based on Metro Ethernet services. Covers Metro Ethernet network architecture, MEN services, application of MEN to mobile transmission networks, MEN QoS frameworks and Operations & Maintenance.	Advanced/ Specialist
Certified IP Professional (CIPP) – Practical VoLTE & IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Networking	4	Personnel from network planning, operations, core, VAS & services platforms	This program builds skills in real-time voice and video services in an IMS network. Covers VoIP, SIP, RTP/RTCP/RTSP, IMS protocols, connection life cycles, DIAMETER signalling and policy control.	Advanced/ Specialist
International Roaming Protocols & Procedures	4	Personnel from network planning, operations, core, VAS & services platforms	This program provides a detailed explanation of how roaming is supported in a mobile network. Covers roaming architecture, signalling flows in roaming, charging & billing and policy control for roaming environments.	Advanced/ Specialist
Certified IP Professional (CIPP) – Implementing MPLS	4	Personnel from network planning, operations, radio access, transmission, core & interconnect	This program builds skills in designing and deploying an MPLS network, such as for mobile access and core transport networks. Covers MPLS operations, L2 and L3 MPLS VPN services, MPLS traffic engineering and MPLS transmission solutions for mobile networks.	Advanced/ Specialist
Certified IP Professional (CIPP) – Implementing MetroEthernet	4	Personnel from network planning, operations, radio access, transmission, core & interconnect	This program builds skills in designing and deploying a transport network based on Metro Ethernet services. Covers Metro Ethernet network architecture, MEN services, application of MEN to mobile transmission networks, MEN QoS frameworks and Operations & Maintenance.	Advanced/ Specialist
LTE Transport Network Design Mentoring	2	Personnel from network planning, operations, radio access & transmission	This program builds skills in dimensioning & planning transmission networks specifically for LTE. Covers capacity calculations, LTE transmission options and parameters, planning for multiple services, planning models and strategies for packet transmission networks.	Advanced/ Specialist
LTE Signalling Analysis & Troubleshooting	4	Personnel from network planning, operations, radio access, transmission & core	This program builds skills in analysing & troubleshooting signalling flows and protocol flows end-to-end in a 4G/LTE network environment, using a protocol analyser and network traces & logs. Covers user and control plane protocols, interface structure, LTE connection life cycle, broadcast channel structure, system channels and handovers.	Intermediate
RF Network Planning for LTE	5	Personnel from network planning, optimisation & radio access	This program builds skills in planning a 4G/LTE radio network including dimensioning & planning for both coverage and capacity. Covers coverage & capacity, dimensioning parameters, use of a planning tool, link budgets, common planning models.	Intermediate
Understanding DIAMETER	2	Personnel from network planning, operations, core, VAS, IT & services platforms	This program builds skills related to DIAMETER and its application to LTE networks. Covers DIAMETER protocol & message format, mapping between DIAMETER and MAP messages, applications at the HSS and Policy Control systems and usage of DIAMETER Routing Agents	Advanced/ Specialist
Understanding 5G	3	Personnel from network planning, operations, field technicians, rollout, radio access, transmission, core, VAS, IT & services platforms	This program builds a foundation of underpinning knowledge in 5G networks, its evolution from 4G/LTE and forms a basis for more advanced, practical programs related to 5G as the emerging standards are finalised. Covers network evolution, operation of the air interface, 5G access & transmission, core and 5G services platforms.	“Fundamental “”Core”” Skill”