Course 9012: Traffic Engineering Boot Camp

This Innovative Bootcamp provides a thorough coverage of the principles behind Traffic Engineering for voice, data, video  and NGN.

Our experienced instructors work with you, tailoring the Boot Camp content to your needs. We can even conduct Boot Camp onsite at your business! Using real-life examples and interactive exercises, we teach practical ways to maintain your valuable customer base, win repeat business, and measure your organization’s ability to meet customer expectations.

Upon completion of this course, the participant will:

• Have a technical understanding on the state of the telecommunications industry, the new and emerging technologies, and the direction of the industry.
• Have a thorough understanding of the telecom traffic engineering
• List the relevant topics associated to telecom traffic engineering including voice and IP Networking/NGN
• Explore the management of traffic through telecommunications networks
• Review the acronyms and jargon associated with traffic engineering
• List the knowledge necessary to evaluate telecommunications network traffic solutions
• Have an understanding of network design associated with traffic engineering
• Explore PSTN, and IP traffic engineering concepts
• Traffic Engineering Techniques in Telecom
• Traffic Distribution and Trunk Provisioning
• Understand Busy Hour Traffic (BHT) Measurement
• Understand Erlang B Calculation and Erlang C Calculation
• Understand Engest Calculation  and Poisson Calculation
• Understand Binomial Calculation Traffic Engineering With IP Routing Protocols
• Understand VoIP Traffic Calculation
• Have an understanding of Cable TV systems and head-end trunking
• Have an understanding Traffic Engineering for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, UMTS and LTE Networks
• Have an understanding Traffic Engineering for CDMA and 1xEV-DO Networks
• Have an understanding Traffic Engineering for WiMAX and WiFi Networks
• Understand what MPLS TE is
• Explore IP Traffic Management Applications
• Understand Measurement, Analysis, and Optimization of IP Traffic
• IP Traffic Engineering Before MPLS
• MPLS Traffic Engineering
  

Telephony, the Reform Act, PSTN, IP, NGN  and Current Trends

 

Switching, Signaling and Deregulation

• Telephone switching and the types of equipment in a CO
• An introduction to both in-band and out-of-band signaling and the SS7 network
• Designation of network locations and route traffic to specific switch locations
• Effects of deregulation on telephone switching and the complexities
• Business in a multi-vendor environment
• Intelligent Network (IN) and Advanced Intelligent Networks (AIN)
• IP Switching and Signaling
• SS7 and SIGTRAN
• SIP and IMS
• Impact of VoIP and IPTV Traffic on IP Networks

 

Traffic Engineering (TE) Principles

• A Discussion on Traffic
• Modeling of telecommunication systems
• System structure
• The operational strategy
• Statistical properties of traffic
• TE Models
• TE in the telephone network
• TE in data networks 
• LANs/WANs/MANs
• Mobile Networks
• Traffic Engineering Standards
• Traffic  demand characterization
• Grade of Service (GoS)
• Traffic controls and dimensioning
• Performance monitoring
• Carried Traffic
• Offered Traffic
• Actual Offered Traffic:
• Idle Offered Traffic
• Traffic Assumptions
• Traffic Engineering
• How many sources of traffic are there?
• What are the arrival characteristics of the traffic?
• How are lost calls (calls that can't be serviced) handled?
• How does the switch handle trunk allocation?
• What is an Erlang?
• The telecommunications unit Erlang, and it's application in teletraffic theory
• How is Erlang B useful for trunk dimensioning?
• How do you work out the Busy Hour Traffic?
• Traffic System Design
• Erlang traffic tables and explanations of various models including Erlang B, Erlang C, Engset and Poisson (Molina)
• Dimensioning trunk groups
• Traffic carried by that trunk group
• Methods of optimizing the number of lines in a trunk group

 

Taxonomy of Traffic Engineering Systems

• Time-Dependent Versus State-Dependent
• Offline Versus Online
• Centralized Versus Distributed
• Local Versus Global
• Prescriptive Versus Descriptive
• Open-Loop Versus Closed-Loop
• Tactical vs. Strategic

 

Types of Traffic Measurements

• Traffic Parameters
• Grade of Service 
• End-to-End Service Parameters
• Traffic Intensity 
• Mean Opinion Score (MOS)
• Queuing theory
• Tables used to design trunk networks
• Problems on traffic design and trunk group efficiency.
• Fundamentals and applications of intelligent networks
• Advanced intelligent networks
• Wireless networks and how they differ from facility-based networks

 

Transmission, Cellular, IP, NGN and Voice Applications

• Transmission systems fundamentals
• Components and capacity
• Analog and digital transmission principles
• Multiplexing
• T1 & T3 formats and applications
• Data communications
• The Internet
• TCP/IP fundamentals
• xDSL and Cable Modems fundamentals
• Frame Relay fundamentals
• ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) fundamentals
• Fiber Optic networks
• SONET standards, ring architecture and network survivability
• DWDM fundamentals
• VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
• VToA (Voice Technology over ATM)
• Video technology
• Worldwide TV standards
• Cable TV systems and head-end trunking
• Traffic Engineering for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, UMTS  and LTE Networks
• Traffic Engineering for CDMA and 1xEV-DO Networks
• Traffic Engineering for WiMAX and WiFi Networks
• MPLS TE

 

IP Network Traffic Engineering

 

Overview of Other IETF Projects Related to Traffic Engineering

• Integrated Services
• RSVP
• Differentiated Services
• MPLS
• MPLS-TE
• IP Performance Metrics
• Flow Measurement
• Endpoint Congestion Management
• Overview of ITU Activities Related to Traffic Engineering
• Content Distribution

 

MPLS Traffic Engineering

• What is MPLS?
• Label Distribution
• Explicit Routes
• Constrained Routes
• Resource Reservation
• Traffic Engineering
• Service Level Contracts
• Virtual Private Networks
• Meeting the Needs of the Modern Network
• Basic Introduction To CR-LDP
• Basic Introduction To Labels Extensions To RSVP
• Comparative Analysis
• Availability of Transport Protocol
• Traffic Control
• Policy Control
• QoS and Diff-Serv
• Analysis of the similarities and differences between the two primary MPLS label distribution protocols:
• RSVP and CR-LDP

Part II

Probability Theory and Statistics

• Distribution functions
• Characterization of distributions
• Residual lifetime
• Forward recurrence time
• Combination of random variables
• Random variables in series
• Random variables in parallel
• Stochastic sum

 

Time Interval Distributions

• Exponential distribution
• Steep distributions
• Flat distributions
• Cox distributions
• Other time distributions
• Heavy-tailed distributions
• Observations of life time distribution

 

Arrival Processes

• Description of point processes
• Characteristics of point process
• Little's theorem

 

The Poisson process

• Characteristics of the Poisson process
• Distributions of the Poisson process
• Properties of the Poisson process
• Generalization of the stationary Poisson process
• Erlang's loss system and B-formula
• Poisson distribution
• Truncated Poisson distribution
• Standard procedures for state transition diagrams
• Principles of dimensioning

 

Loss systems with full accessibility

• Binomial Distribution
• Engset distribution
• Evaluation of Engset's formula
• Relationships between E, B, and C
• Pascal Distribution (Negative Binomial)
• Truncated Pascal distribution

 

Overflow theory

•  Wilkinson-Bretschneider's equivalence method
• Parcel blocking probabilities
• Fredericks & Hayward's equivalence method
• Other methods based on state space
• Generalized arrival processes

 

Dimensioning of telecommunication and IP networks

• Traffic matrices
• Topologies
• Routing principles
• Approximate end-to-end calculations methods
• Exact end-to-end calculation methods
• Load control and service protection
• Moe's principle

 

Delay Systems

• Erlang's delay system
• Traffic characteristics of delay systems
• Erlang's C-formula
• Mean queue lengths
• Mean waiting times
• Moe's principle for delay systems
• Palm's machine repair model
• Optimizing the machine-repair model

 

Applied Queuing Theory

• Classification of queuing models
• General results in the queuing theory
• Pollaczek-Khintchine's formula for M/G/1
• Priority queuing systems: M/G/1
• Queuing systems with constant holding times
• General results

 

Networks of Queues

• Introduction to queuing networks
• Symmetric queuing systems
• Jackson's theorem
• Single chain queuing networks
• BCMP queuing networks
• Multidimensional queuing networks
• Closed queuing networks with multiple chains
• Other algorithms for queuing networks
• Complexity
• Optimal capacity allocation

 

Traffic Measurements

• Measuring principles and methods
• Continuous measurements
• Discrete measurements
• Theory of sampling
• Continuous measurements in an unlimited period
• Scanning method in an unlimited time period
• Numerical example

 

Practical IP Traffic Engineering Management

• IP Traffic Engineering for Carrier Networks
• IP Traffic Engineering Configuration
• The DiffServ and Inteserv Architectures
• DiffServ and IP Packets
• DiffServ-Aware Traffic Engineering (DS-TE)
• Resource-Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
• MPLS Traffic Engineering
• IP Traffic Engineering Before MPLS
• Path Calculation and Setup
• Forwarding Traffic Down Tunnels
• Quality of Service with MPLS TE
• The DiffServ Architecture
• Traffic Engineering (DS-TE)
• Protection and Restoration
• MPLS TE Management
• Network Design with MPLS TE
• DiffServ and IP Packets
• DiffServ and MPLS Packets
• Label Stack Treatment
• Tunnel Modes
• Forwarding DS-TE Traffic Down a Tunnel

TONEX Public Boot Camps Include:

• Experienced instructors including senior executives, managers, authors, educators, consultants, course developers, and CTOs.
• Real life examples and practices
• Small class size
• Personalized instructor mentoring
• Ongoing post-training support via e-mail and phone

On-Site Classes 

On-site classes can also be tailored to meet your needs. You might shorten a 20-day class into a 5-day class, or combine portions of several related courses into a single course, or have the instructor vary the emphasis of topics depending on your staff's and site's requirements. We require a minimum of five employees and above. The CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professionals) exam is a six-hour, monitored paper-based exam covering 10 domains of information system security knowledge, each representing a specific area of expertise.

Customize your Boot Camp
TONEX Boot camps can be tailored to meet your specific needs. At TONEX, we gain an in-depth understanding of your organization and your training requirements. We can then customize the Boot Camp to match your project and the attendees' experience and requirements.

• Courses can be delivered to your office, providing content and focus integrated with the immediate needs of your organization.
• TONEX extracts the key elements of the course topics and packages them into an efficient and cost effective Boot Camp by eliminating the overlap and introductory redundancy.
• A customized Boot Camp gives provides immersion into a subject in a comparatively short period of time. For those requiring more detailed views, we offer Advanced courses.

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