Training Solutions

IP Networking Workshop for Mobile Networks *NEW*

IP and related technologies continue to make their way into wireless service offerings and into the mobility network architecture and operations. Network staff will need to have a solid understanding of these technologies in order to continue meeting service and network performance objectives. Having this foundation of knowledge enhances one’s value to the organization and improves productivity and effectiveness when working with these new types of networking devices. Students will be able to better understand the supported features of new vendor equipment and learn how best to operate them. The course also improves students’ ability to recognize how configuration changes affect other systems, to diagnose performance issues and to trace fault conditions to their source. This session focuses on IP fundamentals: routing, protocols, addressing and tools. Students will conduct hands-on lab exercises to reinforce the concepts. To help students relate to the concepts, the course describes these technologies in the context of the wireless network.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, the student will be able to:
• Configure VLANs on an Ethernet switch
• Configure OSPF routing on an IP router
• Use a network analyzer to trace packet flows through the network
• Configure network nodes to support QoS requirements
• Highlight where and how IP networking is used in the mobility network
• Trace an end-to-end packet flow through the various VLANs and IP subnets that make up the mobility network
• Demonstrate how Ethernet and IP networks provide resiliency to faults using protocols such as HSRP, BFD and RTSP
• Use VLANs to keep user traffic separate from network management traffic
• Describe how Ethernet and IP nodes provide resiliency to faults in the mobility network
• Sketch a typical Ethernet backhaul solution and explain how signaling, traffic and management plane traffic flow through it
• Estimate the number of IP addresses and subnets used by the RAN platforms and formulate an IP addressing scheme to match
• Indentify key performance indicators for the IP/Ethernet transport network
• Identify the key methods for providing backhaul network resiliency
• Show how VLANs are deployed in the backhaul

Intended Audience

This course is intended for those familiar with the 2G and 3G wireless networks, but are relatively new to IP technologies. It is designed to be a very compact IP course for those who may not necessarily need industry accreditation.

Suggested Prerequisites

• Welcome to IP Networking (eLearning) or equivalent prior knowledge

Course Length

4 Days Instructor Led

Course Outlines / Knowledge Knuggets

1. Prologue
1.1. The networking universe
1.2. LANs, MANs and WANs
1.3. The transformation to IP

2. Internetworking Fundamentals
2.1. OSI and Internet models
2.2. PDUs: Headers and encapsulation
2.3. Network devices: Hub, switch, router
2.4. Internetworking in mobile networks

3. Ethernet LANs
3.1. Ethernet MAC layer and framing
3.2. Ethernet PHY: 10/FE/GE/10GE
3.3. Address resolution protocol
3.4. Lab: Wireshark

4. VLANs
4.1. Conceptual overview
4.2. Applications
4.3. Lab: VLANs (simulate control and management planes)

5. IP Addressing
5.1. Broadcast, unicast, and multicast addresses
5.2. Public and private addresses
5.3. Static and dynamic addresses
5.4. IP subnet masks and prefixes
5.5. Written lab: Calculating subnets for the RAN

6. Internet Protocol Operation
6.1. IP packet format
6.2. IP forwarding
6.3. IP routing
6.4. Name resolution
6.5. ICMP functions
6.6. Lab: IP forwarding

7. Transport Layer
7.1. Ports
7.2. TCP, UDP, SCTP
7.3. Lab: SCTP connection with redundancy

8. Network Availability
8.1. Layer 2 solutions
8.2. Layer 3 solutions
8.3. Lab: Failover

9. Mobility
9.1. Packet core architecture
9.2. Authentication
9.3. Tunneling for mobility
9.4. Lab: Simulated data session

10. Quality of Service (QoS)
10.1. IP QoS
10.2. MPLS QoS
10.3. Ethernet QoS
10.4. Lab: Simulate voice getting higher priority than data

11. Interconnecting IP Networks
11.1. Use of Ethernet
11.2. Use of IP
11.3. Use of MPLS
11.4. Pseudowires
11.5. Written lab: Network interconnection

CATALOG

Download our course catalog!

2010 Catalog,
pdf format (7.8 MB)