Introduction:

This course is designed for students who are familiar with the general configuration of a WiMAX network, and who wish to formalize their approach to maintenance and troubleshooting of WiMAX networks through use of generic approaches. While the tools used to illustrate maintenance and troubleshooting are specific to one vendor’s equipment, the skills learned are transferable to any WiMAX implementation. With the knowledge and experience they acquire, the student will be able to apply maintenance tools to maintain, optimize and troubleshoot their network, thereby improving their effectiveness and return on investment. The course features hands-on practice with maintenance tools, in hands-on labs. Students must bring a laptop to the class to participate in the class exercises, or arrange with DoceoTech to provide a laptop. DoceoTech will provide sample tools for network management lab exercises.

Audience:

This course is designed for students who are working on Designing, configuring and maintaining WiMAX networks.

Customize it

This 2-day course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Enowireless will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of wireless training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your organization’s name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Enowireless, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what you are getting is what you really need even if at the beginning you weren’t too sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our “standard”, one size fits all, class.

Course Objectives:

With the knowledge and experience they acquire, the student will be able to apply maintenance tools to maintain, optimize and troubleshoot their network, thereby improving their effectiveness and return on investment. The course features hands-on practice with maintenance tools, in hands-on labs. Students must bring a laptop to the class to participate in the class exercises, or arrange with DoceoTech to provide a laptop. DoceoTech will provide sample tools for network management lab exercises.

Course Outline

Module 1: WiMAX Network Overview At the end of this module you should be able to: • Diagram a WiMAX network • List the six major applications of WiMAX technology • Converse in the industry-general and vendor-specific WiMAX vocabulary • Describe the impact of RF regulation on network configuration Module 2: Overview of WiMAX Maintenance Toolsets At the end of this module you should be able to: • Explain and follow each step of the DoceoTech Maintenance checklist • Understand the operation of sample WiMAX network diagnostic tools and maintenance databases • Use these tools to maintain and improve WiMAX network performance • Understand how the tools relate to general network management systems Module 3: Scheduled Maintenance Actions At the end of this lesson you should be able to: • List sample steps to take with Urgent actions • List sample actions to take Daily • List sample actions to take Weekly • List sample actions to take Monthly Module 4: Optimizing WiMAX Networks At the end of this module you should be able to: • Explain and follow each step of a sample optimization checklist • Use Module 2’s tools to optimize the network • Review the health of operating links • Re-configure the network based on the tool data • Analyze backhaul reports • Evaluate alternate channel assignments • Identify and address problems with noise Module 5: Real Network Lab Exercise At the end of this lesson you will have: • Interpreted data collected from a sample network • Worked with a team of students to determine problems within the network • Worked with a team to recommend the best solution to overcome the problems • Reported recommendations for evaluation Module 6: Practice labs: At the end of this module you will have had practice executing the Maintenance and Troubleshooting procedures to diagnose four trouble cases with a WiMAX network.