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Course Description:
This course demystifies the mass of technologies for delegates from other disciplines without a technical background of any sort. As well as mobile cellular technologies, the course also introduces some other common systems:
Course Content:
Introduction and Mobile Basics
Learning Objectives:
This course demystifies the mass of technologies for delegates from other disciplines without a technical background of any sort. As well as mobile cellular technologies, the course also introduces some other common systems:
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi
- WiMAX
- TETRA
Course Content:
Introduction and Mobile Basics
- Development of Mobile Radio
- The Basic Structure of Cellular Systems
- Cells & Base Stations
- The Need to Share the Capacity
- GSM Background
- GSM Market
- The GSM Radio Interface
- The GSM Mobile Station and SIM Card
- The Base Station Controller
- The Telephone Exchanges
- The Databases
- A (very) Little of How it Works
- Basic GSM data capabilities
- High speed circuit-switched data – HSCSD
- General Packet Radio Service
- EDGE
- Why 3G?
- Higher Data Rates
- How is it Different from GSM
- How we get even more Speed
- The Personal Area Network
- Versions of Bluetooth
- ZigBee
- Fixed Broadband Access
- Mobile WiMAX
- Wireless Local Area Networks
- All the Different Flavours: 802.11b, a, g, n
- Trunked Radio
- The UK Airwave Network
Learning Objectives:
- On completing this course, you will be able to:
- Understand why we need so many base stations
- Appreciate the market dominance of GSM, the Global System for Mobile Communications
- Be aware of what the development and successors to GSM including GPRS, EDGE , UMTS and HSPA actually deliver
- Be able to determine which of a range of other technologies may be suited for particular applications.