Who Should Attend?

The course is addressed to a technical staff as well as to programmers and those requiring an appreciation of the principles of designing and implementation of services in GSM/GPRS networks.

Course Content

1. Introduction to GSM/GPRS.
   • History and standarisation.
   • Architecture.
   • Nodes and Interfaces.
   • GSM/GPRS User.
2. Services classification.
   • Bearer Services.
   • Teleservices.
   • Suplementary Services.
   • CAMEL.
3. Applications.
   • Localisation services.
   • WAP Architecture and WML.
   • i-mode.
   • MMS - Capabilities and Architecture.
   • Push-To-Talk over Cellular.
4. Traffic cases.
   • Registration.
   • Call setup.
   • Call forwarding.
   • PDP Context activation.
   • SMS.
5. Quality of Service.
   • R99 and 3G definitions.
   • Terminal capabilities.
   • Throughput in GSM and GPRS.
6. Charging principles.

Course Objectives

Participants attending this course will be given an introduction to services offered in GSM and GPRS networks. The course helps to understand their classification and implementation models. It describes technologies involved in services transmissions. During this course, examples of such services will be explained.

Pre-requisites

An understanding of the principles of GSM and GPRS system and a basic knowledge on architecture of cellular networks prior to the course would be very advantageous.

Training Structure

One day training divided into logical sessions.

Methodology

Instructor led training.