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IMS Services & Protocols

Duration: 4 days
Available as: in-company and public course
Target audience: engineers
Public course:

Who Should Attend?

The course is intended to anyone who needs to broaden knowledge about role of the SIP in Multimedia over IP Systems.


Course Scope

  1. IMS Concept & Architecture introduction.
    • IMS introduction.
    • Network & services evolution brought by IMS.
    • Deployment outlook.
  2. IMS, technical aspects.
    • IMS standardisation.
    • IMS architecture & functional elements.
    • IMS identities.
    • Charging aspects in IMS.
    • IMS interfaces & signalling protocols.
  3. IMS services – introduction & technical implementation.
    • Presence.
    • Group management.
    • Push To Talk.
    • Messaging.
  4. SIP Fundamentals.
    • SIP main architecture.
    • SIP components (servers and clients) and their functions: SIP user agents (AU client and server).
    • SIP servers: proxy (statefull and stateless), redirect, registrar.
    • SIP location servers.
    • SIP gateways.
    • SIP message structure.
    • SIP requests and response codes.
    • SIP supporting IETF protocols (SAP, SDP).
    • SIP sessions: session setup, proxying and redirecting requests, address resolution, media negotiation via SDP.
    • SIP security.
    • General SIP message flow examples.
  5. Diameter.
    • Diameter architecture.
    • Cx, Dx, Dh, Sh, Rf Interfaces details.
  6. IMS procedures over SIP & Diameter.
    • Registration (initial registration, re-registration, deregistration).
    • IMS –to-IMS Call.
    • Non-IMS – to IMS call.
    • IMS to non-IMS call.
  7. Q&A, open discussion.

Course Objectives

This technical, 4-days long IMS training seminar provides a deep knowledge on IMS architecture, services and protocols used,  SIP in particular. It is recommended for the technical staff with basic knowledge of wired and wireless telecommunications systems.

Pre-requisites

There are no prerequisites to attend the course, but basic knowledge about IP would be beneficial.


Training Structure

Four days training divided into logical sessions.


Methodology

Instructor led training.