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Datacoms for Telecoms Professionals

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  • Duration: 4 Days
  • Price: €2725* Plus Applicable Taxes
Date:
17 - 20 Nov 08LondonRegister

Protocol Suite Overview

  • Applications for IP technology
  • Analysis of the "TCP/IP" Protocol Stack
  • The IPv4 Datagram – concept and format
  • IP Addressing and Routing protocols
  • Use of TCP and UDP
  • Point to Point Protocol (PPP), and Serial Line IP (SLIP)
  • Domain Name Service (DNS) and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
  • Management Protocols
  • Achieving Quality of Service

Demonstration and practical exercise:
Use of software tools to intercept, capture and analyse network traffic

IP and Data Networks

  • Enterprise Applications
  • The Local Area Network (LAN)
    • Architectures and Technology
    • Use of Routers, Bridges and Repeaters
    • Addressing
    • Configuration
  • Virtual Private Networks
    • Use and configuration
  • Transport Technologies – an assessment
    • Ethernet, ATM, Token Ring
    • PDH, SDH, Frame Relay
    • Optical / DWDM
  • Wide and Metropolitan Area Networks (WANs & MANs)
    • Technology Analysis
  • The Internet
    • The Architecture and technologies
    • Limitations and Quality Issues
    • Secure Paths

Practical Exercise
Establishing and configuring a Local Area Network.

IP Network Operation

  • IP Addressing
  • Operation of DNS and ARP
  • Advanced routing Protocols
    • Dynamic Routing
    • Distance Vector Routing
    • Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
    • Other Routing Protocols
    • Tunneling
  • UDP and TCP message structure
  • TCP and Congestion Control
  • QoS Requirements
  • Content and Media Types
  • QoS Mechanisms and systems:
    • ATM, MPLS, DiffServ (Differentiated Services), IntServ (Integrated Services), Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
  • IP Version 6
    • The IPv6 Header
    • Header Field analysis
    • Traffic Classes
    • Source and Destination Addressing
  • Migrating from IPv4 to IPv6
    • Dual IP Layers
    • Tunneling

Practical Exercise

Configuration of an IP router within a multi-router network and analysis of router behaviour and performance

IP Telephony and VoIP

  • Softswitch Principles
  • The Media Gateway
  • VoIP Call Control
  • Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
  • SIP sequences for call control
  • Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
  • Real-Time Control Protocol (RTCP)
  • Session Description Protocol (SDP)
  • MEGACO and Media Gateway Control
  • Bearer-Independent Call Control (BICC)
  • SS7 and IP
    • SIGTRAN Protocols
    • MTP3 User Adaptation Layer (M3UA)
    • Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP)

Practical Exercise

Adding and configuring SIP servers to provide VoIP services in IP networks. Analysis of VoIP call sequences and traffic flows

IP in the Mobile Network

  • IP Evolution in the Mobile Network
  • The General Packet Radio Service
  • The GPRS Core Network
    • Network Architecture and Network Elements
    • GPRS Support Nodes
    • The GPRS Context
    • GPRS Access
  • Servers (DHCP/Radius)
  • Best Effort Services
  • Advanced Services
    • Streaming / Advanced Media Support
  • Quality of Service in GPRS – DiffServ, IntServ, and RSVP
  • Use of E.164 numbering scheme
    • ENUM Protocol
  • Evolution to 3G UMTS
  • The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
    • IMS Architecture
    • Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
      • SIP Messages
      • SIP and SDP
      • Provision of QoS
      • IMS Call Signalling Examples
    • SIP and Quality of Service Issues
  • Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC)
  • IP in the Radio Access Network
    • Support for IPv6
    • Header Compression
    • IP on the RAN interfaces
    • Quality of Service in the Radio Access Network
    • Use of ATM in the Radio access Network
  • Integrating Wireless LAN into the Network

Security and AAA

  • Security Considerations
  • Types of Network Attacks
  • Transport Layer Security (TLS)
  • Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS)
  • IPSec (IP Security)
  • Secure Connections and VPNs
  • Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
  • Radius (Authentication, Authentication and Accounting)
  • Diameter AAA
  • Radius and Diameter sequences
  • Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
  • Managing the Network

Practical Exercise

Adding and configuring a Radius server and analysis of Radius-based security sequences

Wireless LAN and other Access Technologies

  • Fixed Network Access - Dial-Up Connections and Broadband Connections
  • Wireless LAN access
    • Requirements for Wireless Systems
    • Wireless LAN Standards (802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g)
    • The Protocol Stack
    • WLAN PC Cards
    • Wireless Access Points
    • Network Architecture
      • Public Wireless LANs
      • Private Wireless LANs
    • Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
    • Wireless LAN Radio principles
    • Wireless LANs and Mobile Networks
    • 802.11 Security
    • Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
    • Wireless Protected Access (WPA)
    • 802.1x / Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
    • 802.11i / Robust Security Network (RSN)
  • WiMAX – the emerging 802.16 Standard
  • IP and: Bluetooth; Home RF; ZigBee; HiperLAN and HiperLAN

Practical Exercise

Adding wireless capability to a LAN and configuring WLAN access points and clients, and the analysis of WLAN procedures

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