LTE Core Network Training:

LTE Core Network Training Course (Online, Onsite, and Classroom Live!

LTE is a fourth-generation mobile communication technology standardized by the 3GPP which enables support for broadband connectivity to mobile devices, permitting the delivery of demanding multimedia information to any device, anywhere, anytime. In support of this, changes to the core network are also defined as System Architecture Evolution (SAE), providing an all-IP bearer platform for the delivery of services.

This LTE Core Network Training course will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the development, design, and capabilities of SAE. The LTE Core Network Training course will begin with a review of UMTS and HSPA evolution and the architecture of LTE/SAE. An in-depth study of the SAE core entities and their functionality, the interfaces, and the protocols used over those interfaces follows. Signaling and NAS procedures, interworking scenarios, and services are described.

The focus of the course then shifts to transport options for the deployment of LTE/SAE as next-generation network infrastructure. Carrier-class MPLS is described in detail. The course finishes by examining transport options for access, backhaul, and core network.

What’s Included?

• 5 days of LTE Core Network Training with an expert instructor
• LTE Core Network Electronic Course Guide
• Certificate of Completion
• 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

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Customize It:

• If you are familiar with some aspects of LTE Core Network Training, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
• We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the LTE Core Network Training course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
• If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the LTE Core Network Training course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.

Objectives:

After completing this LTE Core Network Training course, attendees will be able to:

• Describe the architectural structure of SAE and entity functionality
• State the protocols used over the EPC interfaces
• Describe procedures and signaling for bearer setup and release
• Describe the relationship between EPC and IMS service delivery
• Consider migration to SAE within your network
• Describe carrier-class MPLS operations
• Consider which transport options are valid within your network

Course Syllabus:

Review of the 3GPP UMTS and HSPA Evolution

• UMTS architectural components
• Migration to all-IP packet mode
• HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA+
• The LTE approach

LTE Access Network

• Evolved NodeB (eNodeB)
• Interfaces: X2, S1
• Implementation of the interfaces
• Backhaul options

LTE Core Network

• Why change the UMTS core?
• Major change items
• EPC entities and functionality
• Mobility management entity
• Serving gateway
• Packet data network gateway
• Home Subscriber Server (HSS)
• Interfaces
• Bearers and signaling
• Protocol stacks
• Additional interfaces and entities for interworking

IP Multimedia System (IMS)

• IMS structure
• IMS components and functionality
• Public and private identities
• SIP
• Session control
• QoS and policy control
• Example session procedures

EPC Interfaces, Protocols, and Signaling

• S-series interfaces defined by 3GPP
• S1-U interface and protocol stack
• S1AP interface and protocol stack
• S1AP services and functions
• S1AP procedures
• Bearer management
• Context management
• Handover signaling
• GTPv2-C protocol stack
• GTPv2-C format and message structure
• Path management
• Tunnel management
• Mobility management
• Where and how other S-series interfaces are used

Protocols used over other S-series interfaces

• Diameter, GRE, PMIP

Non-Access Stratum Signaling

• NAS states and transitions
• NAS security
• Integrity protection
• NAS protocols
• Evolved Mobility Management (EMM) signaling
• Evolved Session Management (ESM) signaling
• ESM, EMM Procedure examples

Interworking Features of SAE

• Interworking with UMTS and earlier 3GPP networks
• Interworking with WLANs
• Interworking with trusted non-3GPP networks (CDMA)
• Handovers
• Signaling message flows for interworking scenarios
• Handling voice

Services

• The role of OMA
• The role of CAMEL
• PoC
• Presence
• MBMS

NGN Transport Architecture

• Components of NGN transport
• Pre-NGN services
• New services
• OSI layering

MPLS

• MPLS: What it is, its benefits, and where to use it
• Layer 2 switching vs Layer 3 routing
• Terminology, components, label distribution
• Label switched paths: Establishment, operation, tunneling
• Label distribution methods
• Label assignment methods: Independent, ordered
• Impact of different label retention methods
• LDP, CR-LDP, RSVP, PIM
• Carrier-class MPLS
• MPLS-TE
• Traffic protection
• VPLS, H-VPLS

Physical Medium Technologies for NGN Transport

• SDH
• Ethernet, Carrier-grade Ethernet: Metro Ethernet
• CWDM, DWDM
• PONs
• Fiber to the premises

SDH and Next Generation SDH

• Review of SONET and SDH
• Concatenation
• Can existing SDH be used in NGN transport?
• GFP
• Virtual concatenation
• LCAS
• Circuit Emulation Services

Fiber Transport

• NGN requirements
• Transmitters and receivers
• Wavelength considerations
• WDM, CWDM, DWDM
• FTTx options
• PONs: APON, BPON, GPON, EPON
• Transition to Ethernet-based systems
• IEEE 802.3
• Optical Ethernet options
• EFM
• Gigabit, 10G and 100G Ethernet
• IEEE 802.1Q VLANs, Q-in-Q, MAC-in-MAC
• Aggregation and protection options

Pseudo Wire Emulation

• Traditional carrier services
• Carrier services across an NGN
• PWE3 structure and requirements
• Encapsulation methods:
• FR, PPP, ATM, Ethernet over MPLS
• Examples of PWE3 emulation

Wrap-up

• Course recap and Q/A
• Evaluations

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