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IMS/RCS Technology

Duration: 2 days
Available as: in-company and public course
Target audience: engineers
Public course:

Who Should Attend?
The course is intended for technical mobile network staff and their management who plan to or already work on introducing IMS/RCS services.

Course Scope

  1. Introduction.
    • IMS and RCS standardisation,
    • horizontally and vertically integrated networks,
    • RCS R1-R4 services.
  2. Architecture.
    • basic IMS architecture,
    • RCS R1-R4 architecture,
    • IPX architecture,
    • numbering and addressing,
    • ENUM in IMS,
    • DNS and ENUM in RCS/IPX.
  3. Access networks.
    • PS bearer services in GSM/GERAN,
    • UMTS/UTRAN,
    • LTE/E-UTRAN,
    • GAN,
    • Broadband Access,
    • QoS, Policy Control and Charging - PCC.
  4. Signalling procedures.
    • SIP and SDP overview,
    • SIP signalling bearer establishment,
    • media bearer establishment,
    • IMS discovery,
    • registration,
    • authentication with and without xSIM,
    • mobile-to-mobile call setup overview,
    • mobile-to-PSTN call setup overview,
    • multi-device environment and SIP forking.
  5. Address book and presence service.
    • enhanced address book,
    • network address book,
    • address book synchronisation in single and multi-device environment,
    • presence information sharing,
    • service availability/capability discovery,
    • GPS and SUPL as sources of positioning information,
    • signalling procedures examples.
  6. Messaging and content sharing.
    • legacy messaging enhancements,
    • instant messaging,
    • content sharing,
    • chat,
    • interworking between IMS/RCS messaging and legacy messaging,
    • messaging in multi-device environment,
    • signalling procedures examples.
  7. Telephony.
    • MMTel and VoLTE,
    • supplementary services available in IMS and in RCS R1 - R4,
    • telephony in multi-device environment,
    • signalling procedures examples.
  8. Auto configuration and provisioning.
    • RCS managed objects,
    • first time registration and client configuration provisioning,
    • re-registration,
    • OMA DM, OMA CP.

Course Objectives
For a long time, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) was nothing more than just a revolutionary idea to move all existing teleservices, including telephony to the PS domain of the mobile network and to create a vast variety of brand new teleservices totally based on end-to-end IP connectivity. Today, thanks to GSMA Rich Communication Suite (RCS) initiative, there is a clear path and agreement on how to turn IMS into practice. RCS ensures that the same initial subset of IMS services will be introduced by all operators, infrastructure and terminal vendors and will work smoothly also in inter-operator scenarios. The course explains IMS architecture, addressing, signalling procedures and services paying a special attention to the solutions selected by GSMA RCS Releases 1 to 4 including details of inter-operator IPX procedures. Training also covers procedures that are not formally part of IMS, but are included in RCS (e.g. OMA DS, OMA DM, SUPL).

Pre-requisites
The participants should have a general technical knowledge about IP networks and packet bearer services in 3GPP mobile systems.

Duration
Two days training divided into logical sessions.

Methodology
Instructor led training.