Who Should Attend?
This course is addressed to individuals responsible for planning, engineering, operating and maintaining 3G UMTS systems. Practical and theoretical knowledge would be valuable for both technical professionals and engineers.
Course Scope
- Traffic planning.
- Traffic distribution for CS and PS services.
- Traffic dispersion for CS and PS services.
- Network architecture
- Overview of Rel 5 and onwards network architectures.
- Network feature impacting general network architecture.
- CS network architecture in classical and layered architecture.
- PS network architecture design.
- Signalling network planning.
- Overview of signaling concepts in Rel 5 and onwards systems.
- Signaling traffic modelling.
- Planning issues.
- Transport network planning.
- Overview of contemporary transport alternatives (IPv4/IPv6, MPLS, ATM, Ethernet) and their network tologies.
- Impact of specific solutions and tailored planing methodologies.
- Traffic engineering in transport network.
- QoS planning.
- Transmission system planning.
- Transmission media types (leased line, dark fiber, optic fiber, radio links).
- Overview of contemporary transmission system alternatives (PDH/SDH, DWDM, Ethernet).
- Topologies of transmission systems and availablity aspects.
- Planning of transmission Introduction to network planning.
- Overview of planning activities.
- Planning methodologies and tools.
- Traffic modelling.
- Fundamental definitons and terms.
- Statistical, probabilistic and stochastic systems in traffic modelling.
- Modelling for CS services.
- Modelling for PS services.
- Interconnection planning.
- Security solutions.
- Transport techniques.
- IT enabling solutions.
- Synchronisation network planning.
- Overview of synchronisation concepts.
- Planning hints.
- Expansion and migration planning.
- Expansion in the planing process.
- Migration strategies.
Course Objectives
This course is designed to provide radio and transport network engineers with a basic knowledge of WCDMA radio network and the core network design.
Pre-requisites
Participants must have experience from 2G radio and transport network engineering. The WCDMA technology, IP and ATM basic knowledge is also required. Participants must successfully complete all following courses or have the equivalent knowledge to:
Training Structure
Four days training divided into logical sessions.
Methodology
Instructor led training.