LTE/SAE NGN Transport
- LTE/SAE Architecture
- Review of the components and functionality of LTE/SAE
- Requirements for interworking with other 3GPP RATs
- SAE: Will it support fixed and mobile IP connectivity?
- Providing carrier services to both fixed and mobile devices
- NGN Transport Architecture
- Components of NGN transport
- Pre-NGN services
- New services
- OSI layering
- MPLS
- MPLS: What it is, its benefits, and where to use it
- Layer 2 switching vs Layer 3 routing
- Principles of label switching:
- Terminology, components, label distribution
- Label switched paths: Establishment, operation, tunneling
- Label distribution methods
- Label assignment methods: Independent, ordered
- Impact of different label retention methods
- LDP, CR-LDP, RSVP, PIM
- Carrier-class MPLS
- MPLS-TE
- Traffic protection
- VPLS, H-VPLS
- Physical Medium Technologies for NGN Transport
- SDH
- Ethernet, Carrier grade Ethernet: Metro Ethernet
- CWDM, DWDM
- PONs
- Fiber to the premises
- SDH and Next Generation SDH
- Review of SONET and SDH
- Concatenation
- Can existing SDH be used in NGN transport?
- GFP
- Virtual concatenation
- LCAS
- Circuit Emulation Services
- Fiber Transport
- NGN requirements
- Transmitters and receivers
- Wavelength considerations
- WDM, CWDM, DWDM
- FTTx options
- PONs: APON, BPON, GPON, EPON
- Transition to Ethernet-based systems
- IEEE 802.3
- Optical Ethernet options
- EFM
- Gigabit, 10G and 100G Ethernet
- IEEE 802.1Q VLANs, Q-in-Q, MAC-in-MAC
- Aggregation and protection options
- Pseudo Wire Emulation
- Traditional carrier services
- Carrier services across an NGN
- PWE3 structure and requirements
- Encapsulation methods:
- FR, PPP, ATM, Ethernet over MPLS
- Examples of PWE3 emulation
- Opportunities
- Can SAE deliver? providing high bit rate broadband:
- To mobile devices
- To fixed devices
- Will this enable an operator to seamlessly provide all services to their users?
- Multimedia, TV/Video on Demand, Carrier Services
- At home and on the move
- Wrap-up
- Course recap and Q/A
- Evaluations
