1-Day Instructor Led Technology Briefing
Available in either Web Based delivery or On-Site Delivery

Course Description:

The demand for high speed wireless connectivity is growing, with some analysts predicting that there will be over 2 billion mobile broadband users by 2015. Spectrum is a scarce resource and mobile operators are embracing technologies like Wi-Fi, femto cell, and wireless USB technologies in order to provide a complete broadband solution. This course describes and contrasts the different wireless technologies that provide connectivity for delivering broadband subscriber services, with a particular focus on the LTE.

This 1-day Technology Briefing on 4G, as part of the Technology Briefings/Emerging Technologies presentations, will provide the attendee insight into some basic operation and terminology of the 4G technologies. 

The overall objective of this one day briefing is to provide sufficient insight to the main subject and thus provide a baseline for creating the next generation solutions for products and services. The attendee will be provided access to ongoing Q&A and discussion for the subject. We will deliver this briefing via web meeting tools in two 4-hour sessions. This briefing is designed to meet the needs of anyone that requires insight into these emerging technologies from managers to designers.

Course Objectives:

• Define broadband wireless and the various application and services it enables
• Understand the emerging wireless techniques to deliver broadband connectivity, including OFDM, MIMO, femto cells and multiple channel solutions
• Distinguish between different broadband technologies including Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and LTE
• Describe the technical attributes of the next generation 3GPP Advanced LTE and IEEE Wi-Fi standards that promise data rates of 100 Mbps.

Audience:

The target audience for this course is anyone in Engineering, Test, Customer Support, Technical Marketing, or even Sales and Marketing that requires an understanding of the fundamental operations of 4G and seeks to comprehend the challenges of 4G that can be applied to their job function.

Ideal candidates are:

• Operations individuals that will provide 4G configuration and support services
• Network Design Engineers that need to understand 4G
• Network Management individuals that are providing element and network management tools
• Technical sales individuals that must be able to correlate features with functionality
• Technical marketing individuals that want more than just a basic understanding of 4G
• Certification Track individuals that need to expand their knowledge and studies
• Network Administrators

Course Prerequisites:

This course is designed to appeal to anyone needing the skills and knowledge of the 4G emerging technology. The ideal student will have some experience in networking and operations, however no prior knowledge is necessary.

Course Materials:

Students will be provided with a Course Student Guide via the CellStream Online School as well as many course reference materials.

Related Content:

For students that are interested in a complete hands-on experience, we offer a multi-day Wireless Hands On Class. 

Course Outline:

• Introduction to Wireless Broadband
  • Definition of wireless broadband and 4G
  • Wireless broadband market and major trends
  • Planned deployments
  • Services and key features
  • Spectrum considerations
  • Complementary and competing technologies

• Technologies enabling broadband data rates
  • Physical layer enhancement (multiband technologies, OFDMA)
  • Advanced antenna techniques (MIMO, beamforming)
  • Next generation ultra wide band technologies
  • Contracting femto cells and Wi-Fi

• Convergence to an all IP network core network   
  • Service architecture evolution
  • Evolution to an All IP network
  • Network  protocol architecture
  • User plane
  • Mobility management

• Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE Advanced
  • LTE Physical Layers
    • OFDMA
    • SC-FDMA
  • Resource management
  • Delivering VoIP
  • LTE Advanced

• Contrasting 4G technologies
  • Contrasting different wireless broadband technologies
  • Interworking and seamless handover