Course ID

P-IMS1

Duration

3 day(s)

Aimed At

Professionals and managers responsible for telecommunications planning, design, engineering, deployment, business strategy, marketing, and services creation. You should have a couple of years of telecommunications experience including work with one or more wireless technologies such as GSM, CDMA/CDMA2000, UMTS, and WiMAX.

Course in a Nutshell

Communications networks are rapidly evolving into policy-based, packet-oriented networks intended to provide a particular quality-of-services (QoS) to subscribers while reducing the costs of capital expansions, network operations, and management. If you are in telecommunications engineering, deployment, strategy, marketing, or services creation, it is imperative that you understand the technology and business implications of IMS.

In this course, you will look at IMS from all angles including the technology, status of wireless and wireline standards, key challenges posed by the technology, financial drivers for its adoption, deployment, and even security considerations. You will also study the issue of network policy and how the different levels and types of policies for QoS and admission control have important implications for traffic engineering in the evolving networks. We will conclude with a look at the future of telecommunications networks, including a flat, all-IP infrastructure.

Course Outline

• Perspectives on IMS
  • Historical perspective of wireless and wireline network evolution
  • Advantages and disadvantages of legacy technologies
  • Why IMS
    • Integrating applications and new equipment
    • Operational Impact on carriers and service providers
    • Operational and capital expenditure savings
    • Convergence between all networks
• IMS Basics
  • Key terminology
  • 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
  • MPLS/DiffServ and packet networks overview
• IMS Architecture
  • IMS and Intelligent Networks (IN) comparison
  • IMS architecture
  • Network plane
  • VoIP gateway
  • WLAN gateway
  • Border gateway
  • Signaling gateway
  • Media gateway
  • Control plane
  • HSS
  • SCSF
  • Services plane
  • Application servers
  • Media servers
  • Telephony servers
  • Billing
  • Support
• IMS: A Functional Study
  • P,I,S-CSCF
  • SBC
  • BGCF
  • MGCF
  • SGW
  • MRF
  • PDF/PEF
  • SPDF/A-RACF
  • SCIM – Caution: Not sufficiently defined by standards
  • PCRF – Caution: Not sufficiently defined by standards
  • HSS
  • SLF
  • Interfaces
  • Protocols
• Protocols: A Deeper Dive
  • Diameter
  • Message Session Ready Protocol (MSRP)
  • Session Description Protocol (SDP)
  • Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)
  • Domain Name Service (DNS)
  • Media Gateway Control Protocol (MEGACO)
  • Common Open Policy Service (COPS)
  • Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP)
  • Signaling Control Transport Protocol (SCTP)
• IMS Applications
  • Overview of services
  • SCIM and composite services
  • Services policy
  • Presence
  • IMS applications for the consumer
  • Enterprise and vertical markets
  • Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC)
  • FMC-UMA and VCC
  • IMS and WiMax
  • Virtual Network Operators (VNO): A new breed of carriers
    • What is a VNO?
    • The VNO is all about convergence
    • VNO business models
    • VNO technology requirements
    • VNO service offerings
• System Functionality
  • Quality of Service (QoS)
  • Peering policy
  • Access policy
  • Applications policy
  • Network policy
  • Subscriber policy
  • Third party policy
• Call Flows
  • Mobile to land
  • Land to mobile
  • 2G mobile to 3G VoIP/IMS mobile
  • 3G VoIP/IMS mobile to 2G Mobile
  • 2G SMS to 3G/IMS SMS
• Current Standards Work and Challenges
  • IPv6
  • Legacy internetworking
  • Security
  • Privacy
  • RAN performance requirements
  • SCIM
  • PCRF
  • Session based QoS
  • Non-SIP and legacy applications and admission control
  • Voice call continuity
• IMS and SDP’s
  • What is a Service Delivery Platform (SDP)
  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Deploying services in a SDP/SOA environment
  • SDP and IMS: How do they relate?
  • Working with SDP providers and IMS infrastructure providers
• Challenges Transitioning to IMS
  • Challenges in transitioning to an IMS Network
  • Carrier operational planning and key considerations
  • Long-term fiscal considerations for network planning
  • Dual generation network management
  • Dual generation handset /application management
• Wrap-up: Course Recap, Q/A, and Evaluations