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Course Name: GSM System Overview Training
   
Deployment Options: Onsite Instructor-Led Training
   
Course Duration: 2-3 days depending on audience background and options
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GSM System Overview:
 
The Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) is the world?s dominant wireless technology. It?s no exaggeration to state that every wireless technology that has some since GSM has been impacted by it, at least in a conceptual way. This GSM overview course sets the stage for a more advanced study of GSM and other technologies, both current and future.
 
Audience:
 
This GSM course is designed to provide a general overview for strategic or technical managers, consultants, communications professionals, software engineers, system engineers, network professionals, marketing and sales professional, IT professionals, and others who plan on using, evaluating or working with GSM, EDGE, GPRS, 3G and other wireless networks, applications and services.
 
Prerequisites:
 
None
 
Customize it:
 
This 2-3-day GSM course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Eno.com 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 ame on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Eno.com, 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.
 
Objectives:
 
After having taken the GSM course, you will be in a position to describe the various components of a GSM network and their interrelationships. You will have a road map of where modern mobile telecommunications came from, where it is currently, and where it is headed. This will enable you to properly evaluate the plethora of claims and counterclaims being made by a number of existing and planned technologies.
 
Course Outline
 

Evolution of GSM

  • Original motivation for GSM: What did GSM replace and why?
  • GSM: What does the acronym stand for and how/why has that changed?
  • GSM Phase 1, GSM phase 2, and then what?
  • Current evolutionary path for GSM operators

GSM Network Components and their Functionality

  • MSC: The heart of the system
  • BSC: Why is it there?
  • BTS: What the mobile actually ?communicates? with
  • MS: Without the mobile there is no mobile communications!
  • GSM-defined data bases
  • GSM-defined interfaces
  • GSM core network architecture and capabilities: How a mobile originated call is ?connected? to the rest of the world

GSM: The Radio Interface

  • Fundamental structures on the frequency domain
  • Fundamental structures on the time domain
  • Burst types, motivation, and structures
  • Physical channels and logical channels
  • Framing structures and mapping of logical channels to physical channels
  • Cell selection and reselection principles
  • Call establishment signaling flows including handover principles
  • Idle mode procedures, including location area updates and registrations

Course Recap and Conclusion

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