Course Description
A comprehensive 5-day training course to empower participants with key knowledge on current and emerging telecom technologies to successfully plan, design and manage today’s and tomorrow’s telecom networks.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Review the fundamental concepts of telecom networks and technologies
- Examine current and emerging technologies that are shaping the present and future of telecom networks
- Provide a clear understanding and view of the important technological evolutions in telecom networks
- Present the all-important network support systems
- Explain the key activities and tools of network management
Who Should Attend?
- Telecom managers looking to complement their skill-set by gaining in-depth knowledge of current and future telecom technologies
- Telecom personnel in engineering and operations who wish to have a comprehensive view of telecom technologies for competitive advantage
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
The big picture – Network architectures
- Core versus access
- Public versus private networks
- Media (copper, fiber, coax, radio waves)
Circuit-switched networks
- Transmission
- Numbering
- Signaling
- Digital hierarchies
- Circuit switching and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
Packet switched networks
- Packet switching vs circuit switching
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
- Ethernet
TCP/IP and the Internet
- OSI 7-layer model
- TCP/IP model
- IPv4 and IPv6
- Special services supporting IP (DNS, FTP, HTTP/HTML, SMTP, WWW)
Wireless and mobile networks
- Antennas and towers
- Satellite communications
- Fixed wireless technologies (Wi-Fi, WiMAX)
- 3G and 4G mobile
- LTE technology and services
- Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN): Bluetooth, RFID, NFC
- Roaming
Convergence and Next Generation Networks (NGN)
- IP signaling, numbering/addressing, QoS, security
- VoIP
- Broadband access technologies (xDSL, FTTx)
- Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
- Convergence – all services on one network
- The Next Generation Network
Support systems
- Business Support System (BSS)
- Operational Support System (OSS)
Network planning, optimization, and management
- Network technology and design
- Service definition and forecasting
- Data gathering and traffic characterization
- Traffic concepts and quality of service
- Network deployment and project planning
- Network management tools
- Network optimization
Recent and emerging technologies
- Cloud / xaaS (“x as a Service”)
- Over the Top (OTT) services
- Virtualisation
- Mobile commerce and money
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
- Collaboration
- Unified Communications (UC)
- Geolocation
- Triple play / quadruple play
- SIP trunking
A glimpse at the future
- Data centers
- State-of-the-art security
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
- Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV)
- Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- 5G