Course 502: Wireless Training - Fundamentals - TONEX.com

Introduction to Wireless training is a comprehensive two-day course covering all the important aspects of the wireless networks, applications and services.

Upon the completion of this course, the participants will:

• Have a comprehensive overview of wireless technologies, networks, services and applications
• Understand fundamental radio communications concepts
• Understand wireless networking fundamentals
• Understand mainstream wireless technologies and applications including Wireless PANs, LANs, MANs and WANs
• Understand cellular network architecture and components including GSM, EGPRS, CDMA, CDMA2000, UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ and the transition to 4G (LTE and WiMAX)
• Understand concepts behind LTE and  LTE Advance
• Understand Microwave, SATCOM and VSAT

Overview

• Background
• Evolution of Wireless Communications
• Wireless Data
• Services and Applications Technologies
• Wireless LANs, PANs, MANs and WANs

Radio Spectrum

• Radio 101
• Radio and Regulation
• Spectrum
• Bands
• Microwaves
• Interference

Analog vs. Digital

• Amplitude Modulation (AM)
• Frequency Modulation (FM)
• Phase Modulation
• Spectrum Regulation
• Licensing Methods

Wireless Infrastructure

• Fixed vs. Mobile
• First generation AMPS Basics
• Hand-off
• Roaming
• Analog to Digital Transition
• 2G vs. 2.5 and 3G vs. 4G
• Antennas and More

Cellular Telephoney

• Duplexing
• Multiplexing
• Voice Coding
• Growth of Cellular
• Standards for Cellular
• Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
• GPRS/EDGE
• CDMA/CDMA2000
• W-CDMA/ UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+
• LTE and LTE Advance
• WiMAX

Inside a Mobile Network

• The Air Link
• BTS
• Voice Infrastructure
• BSC
• MSC
• GMSC
• Data Infrastructure
• Core Network
• IP
• IMS and VoIP

Wireless Data

• Mobile Data Service
• Satellite Communications
• Mobile Communications via Geostationary Satellites
• Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), MEO and GEO Satellites
• Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
• Wireless Data Applications
• WAP and iMode
• Messaging
• SMS and MMS

 Wireless Messaging

• SMS: What’s Short Messaging Service and How Does it Work
• MMS
• Integration with Terrestrial Instant Messaging

OSS/BSS

• Wireless Billing
• Billing Mediation