Course Overview

This two-day course is developed to offer telecommunications professionals a sound understanding of GPRS technology and to discuss major engineering steps involved when planning and deploying GPRS Networks. Also the course objectives are to investigates GSM (2G) possible migration paths towards 3G and analyze the impacts of GPRS over GSM in terms of coverage, capacity and enhanced services.

Key Benefits

This two-day course is developed to offer telecommunications professionals a sound understanding of GPRS technology and to discuss major engineering steps involved when planning and deploying GPRS networks. Also the course objectives are to investigates GPRS possible migration paths towards EDGE analyze the impacts of EDGE over GSM in terms of coverage, capacity and enhanced services.

Pre-requisite

Basic knowledge of GSM .

Who should attend

Telecommunications professionals requiring sound understanding of functional and, operational of GPRS technology along with GPRS network design and planning.

Course Outline

Introduction

• Origin of GPRS
• Packets over Wireless Networks
• Basics of Internet Protocol (IP)
• General GSM concepts

GPRS System Architecture

• GPRS Standards and Standard Bodies
• Systems Overview
• Channel Coding schemes
• Services and Applications
• GPRS Reference Architecture

Core Network Elements

• Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)
• Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN)

Core Database Elements

• Base Station System (BSS)
• Expanded (HLR) Home Location Register Enhanced)

Network Control Functions

GPRS Protocol Architecture

GPRS Quality of Service (QoS) Issues

GPRS Network Traffic Dimensioning

GPRS Network Performance

GPRS migration to 3 G via EDGE