3G/IMS Strategy
- Introduction
- Wireless networks: A historical perspective
- Advantages and disadvantages of legacy technologies
- 2G and 3G Basics
- Key terminology
- Modulation types & schemes
- Evolution of standards
- Comparing and contrasting 3G vs. 2G
- Deployment costs
- Monetization of spectrum
- IMS Basics
- Key terminology
- Comparing and contrasting IMS with legacy, circuit switched networks
- IMS layers, concepts, and elements
- Definitions/functions per node
- Policy overview
- IMS in GSM, CDMA, fixed and WiMAX networks
- IMS: Key market trends
- SIP overview
- Engineering Basics: Traffic/Call Flows
- Mobile to land
- Land to mobile
- 2G mobile to 3G VoIP/IMS mobile
- 3G VoIP/IMS mobile to 2G Mobile
- Call models
- Superposition
- Margin per Application Comparison 2G versus 3G/IMS
- Voice versus VoIP
- SMS versus 3G/IMS
- E-Mail versus 3G/IMS
- Streaming Video versus 3G/IMS
- Streaming Audio versus 3G/IMS
- Diffusion curves of adoption
- Current Standards Work: Challenges and Impact on Network Economics
- IPv6
- Legacy internetworking
- RAN performance requirements
- Session based QoS
- Non-SIP and legacy applications and admission control
- LTE
- Wrap-up
- Putting it all together
- End game, economics, strategy, financial drivers
- Future of mobile networking
- Q/A and evaluations
