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Course Name: Wireless Number Portability Training
   
Deployment Options: Onsite - Instructor-Led Training
   
Course Duration: 2-3 days depending on audience background and options
   
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Introduction:
 
Number portability ensures that consumers will retain the same telephone number regardless of which telecommunications service provider - wireline or wireless - they choose. The course covers all number portability aspects, from a wireless services provider perspective, that you need to know to meet the current FCC requirements. Each aspect, from how number portability works to how it is provisioned is explained.
 
Audience:
 
This course will be an invaluable tool for those individuals responsible for maintenance and surveillance of the voice or signaling network. Others who could benefit would include planners, network or traffic engineers, dial administrators, sales representatives and interconnection specialists.
 
Prerequisites:
 
A basic knowledge of mobile networks is helpful, but not required.
 
Customize it:
 
This 2-3-day Wireless Number Portability 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 Telecommunications 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 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 eeds. We never fit you into our standard, one size fits all, class.
 
Objectives:
 
In this course you will learn how to implement WNP. In addition, you will learn what the FCC has mandated and what protocols and standards are being used. Emphasis is placed on the various entities involved and the communication that must take place between them. Number portability has an effect on services that rely on telephone numbers and this course addresses that.

Exercises are provided throughout the course, re-enforcing a practical understanding of the material.
 
Course Outline
 

Overview

  • What is wireless number portability?
  • How wireless number portability is accomplished
  • Key players in number portability
  • Differences between local and wireless number portability

Signaling Protocols

  • Parameters used in trunk signaling
  • Applications used to accomplish number portability
  • Routing used for portability applications
  • Examination of SS7 layers used to obtain routing information

Call Flow Scenarios

  • Typical call flow scenarios
  • Identification of NPDB and HLR query precedence
  • Examination of SMS with number portability
  • Routing Failure Scenarios

Operational Issues

  • Provisioning process
  • Impact of number portability on network elements
  • Number pooling concepts
 
 

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