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Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for The primary audience for this course is data professionals who are familiar with data modeling, extraction, and analytics. It is designed for professionals who are interested in gaining knowledge about Lakehouse architecture, the Microsoft Fabric platform, and how to enable end-to-end analytics using these technologies. Job role: Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist Overview Describe end-to-end analytics in Microsoft Fabric Describe core features and capabilities of lakehouses in Microsoft Fabric Create a lakehouse Ingest data into files and tables in a lakehouse Query lakehouse tables with SQL Configure Spark in a Microsoft Fabric workspace Identify suitable scenarios for Spark notebooks and Spark jobs Use Spark dataframes to analyze and transform data Use Spark SQL to query data in tables and views Visualize data in a Spark notebook Understand Delta Lake and delta tables in Microsoft Fabric Create and manage delta tables using Spark Use Spark to query and transform data in delta tables Use delta tables with Spark structured streaming Describe Dataflow (Gen2) capabilities in Microsoft Fabric Create Dataflow (Gen2) solutions to ingest and transform data Include a Dataflow (Gen2) in a pipeline This course is designed to build your foundational skills in data engineering on Microsoft Fabric, focusing on the Lakehouse concept. This course will explore the powerful capabilities of Apache Spark for distributed data processing and the essential techniques for efficient data management, versioning, and reliability by working with Delta Lake tables. This course will also explore data ingestion and orchestration using Dataflows Gen2 and Data Factory pipelines. This course includes a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises that will prepare you to work with lakehouses in Microsoft Fabric. INTRODUCTION TO END-TO-END ANALYTICS USING MICROSOFT FABRIC * Explore end-to-end analytics with Microsoft Fabric * Data teams and Microsoft Fabric * Enable and use Microsoft Fabric * Knowledge Check GET STARTED WITH LAKEHOUSES IN MICROSOFT FABRIC * Explore the Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse * Work with Microsoft Fabric Lakehouses * Exercise - Create and ingest data with a Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse USE APACHE SPARK IN MICROSOFT FABRIC * Prepare to use Apache Spark * Run Spark code * Work with data in a Spark dataframe * Work with data using Spark SQL * Visualize data in a Spark notebook * Exercise - Analyze data with Apache Spark WORK WITH DELTA LAKE TABLES IN MICROSOFT FABRIC * Understand Delta Lake * Create delta tables * Work with delta tables in Spark * Use delta tables with streaming data * Exercise - Use delta tables in Apache Spark INGEST DATA WITH DATAFLOWS GEN2 IN MICROSOFT FABRIC * Understand Dataflows (Gen2) in Microsoft Fabric * Explore Dataflows (Gen2) in Microsoft Fabric * Integrate Dataflows (Gen2) and Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric * Exercise - Create and use a Dataflow (Gen2) in Microsoft Fabric

Duration 4 Days 24 CPD hours This course is intended for This four-day course is intended for Windows Server Hybrid Administrators who have experience working with Windows Server and want to extend the capabilities of their on-premises environments by combining on-premises and hybrid technologies. Windows Server Hybrid Administrators who already implement and manage on-premises core technologies want to secure and protect their environments, migrate virtual and physical workloads to Azure Iaas, enable a highly available, fully redundant environment, and perform monitoring and troubleshooting. This course teaches IT Professionals to configure advanced Windows Server services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. The course teaches IT Professionals how to leverage the hybrid capabilities of Azure, how to migrate virtual and physical server workloads to Azure IaaS, and how to secure Azure VMs running Windows Server. The course also teaches IT Professionals how to perform tasks related to high availability, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. The course highlights administrative tools and technologies including Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Automation Update Management, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Security Center, Azure Migrate, and Azure Monitor. Prerequisites An understanding of the following concepts as related to Windows Server technologies: High availability and disaster recovery Automation Monitoring Troubleshooting 1 - SECURE WINDOWS SERVER USER ACCOUNTS * Configure user account rights * Protect user accounts with the Protected Users group * Describe Windows Defender Credential Guard * Block NTLM authentication * Locate problematic accounts 2 - HARDENING WINDOWS SERVER * Describe Local Password Administrator Solution * Configure Privileged Access Workstations * Secure domain controllers * Analyze security configuration with Security Compliance Toolkit * Secure SMB traffic 3 - WINDOWS SERVER UPDATE MANAGEMENT * Explore Windows Update * Outline Windows Server Update Services server deployment options * Define Windows Server Update Services update management process * Describe the process of Update Management 4 - SECURE WINDOWS SERVER DNS * Implement split-horizon DNS * Create DNS policies * Implement DNS policies * Secure Windows Server DNS * Implement DNSSEC 5 - IMPLEMENT WINDOWS SERVER IAAS VM NETWORK SECURITY * Implement network security groups and Windows IaaS VMs * Implement adaptive network hardening * Implement Azure Firewall and Windows IaaS VMs * Implement Windows firewall with Windows Server IaaS VMs * Choose the appropriate filtering solution * Deploy and configure Azure firewall using the Azure portal * Capture network traffic with network watcher * Log network traffic to and from a VM using the Azure portal 6 - AUDIT THE SECURITY OF WINDOWS SERVER IAAS VIRTUAL MACHINES * Describe Azure Security Center * Enable Azure Security Center in hybrid environments * Implement and assess security policies * Protect your resources with Azure Security Center * Implement Azure Sentinel 7 - MANAGE AZURE UPDATES * Describe update management * Enable update management * Deploy updates * View update assessments * Manage updates for your Azure Virtual Machines 8 - CREATE AND IMPLEMENT APPLICATION ALLOWLISTS WITH ADAPTIVE APPLICATION CONTROL * Describe adaptive application control * Implement adaptive application control policies 9 - CONFIGURE BITLOCKER DISK ENCRYPTION FOR WINDOWS IAAS VIRTUAL MACHINES * Describe Azure Disk Encryption and server-side encryption * Configure Key Vault for Azure Disk Encryption * Encrypt Azure IaaS Virtual Machine hard disks * Back up and recover data from encrypted disks * Create and encrypt a Windows Virtual Machine 10 - IMPLEMENT CHANGE TRACKING AND FILE INTEGRITY MONITORING FOR WINDOWS IAAS VMS * Implement Change Tracking and Inventory * Manage Change Tracking and Inventory * Manage tracked files * Implement File Integrity Monitoring * Select and monitor entities * Use File Integrity Monitoring 11 - INTRODUCTION TO CLUSTER SHARED VOLUMES * Determine the functionality of Cluster Shared Volumes * Explore the architecture and components of Cluster Shared Volumes * Implement Cluster Shared Volumes 12 - IMPLEMENT WINDOWS SERVER FAILOVER CLUSTERING * Define Windows Server failover clustering * Plan Windows Server failover clustering * Implement Windows Server failover clustering * Manage Windows Server failover clustering * Implement stretch clusters * Define cluster sets 13 - IMPLEMENT HIGH AVAILABILITY OF WINDOWS SERVER VMS * Select high-availability options for Hyper-V * Consider network load balancing for Hyper-V VMs * Implement Hyper-V VM live migration * Implement Hyper-V VMs storage migration 14 - IMPLEMENT WINDOWS SERVER FILE SERVER HIGH AVAILABILITY * Explore the Windows Server File Server high-availability options * Define Cluster Shared Volumes * Implement Scale-Out File Server * Implement Storage Replica 15 - IMPLEMENT SCALE AND HIGH AVAILABILITY WITH WINDOWS SERVER VM * Describe virtual machine scale sets * Implement scaling * Implement load-balancing VMs * Create a virtual machine scale set in the Azure portal * Describe Azure Site Recovery * Implement Azure Site Recovery 16 - IMPLEMENT HYPER-V REPLICA * Define Hyper-V Replica * Plan for Hyper-V Replica * Configure and implement Hyper-V Replica * Define extended replication * Define Azure Site Recovery * Implement Site Recovery from on-premises site to Azure * Implement Site Recovery from on-premises site to on-premises site 17 - PROTECT YOUR ON-PREMISES INFRASTRUCTURE FROM DISASTERS WITH AZURE SITE RECOVERY * Azure Site Recovery overview * Workloads supported for protection with Azure Site Recovery * Run a disaster recovery drill * Failover and failback 18 - IMPLEMENT HYBRID BACKUP AND RECOVERY WITH WINDOWS SERVER IAAS * Describe Azure Backup * Implement recovery vaults * Implement Azure Backup policies * Recover Windows IaaS Virtual Machines * Perform file and folder recovery * Perform backup and restore of on-premises workloads * Manage Azure Virtual Machine backups with Azure Backup service 19 - PROTECT YOUR AZURE INFRASTRUCTURE WITH AZURE SITE RECOVERY * What is Azure Site Recovery * Prepare for disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery * Run a disaster recovery drill * Failover and failback using Azure Site Recovery 20 - PROTECT YOUR VIRTUAL MACHINES BY USING AZURE BACKUP * Azure Backup features and scenarios * Back up an Azure virtual machine by using Azure Backup * Restore virtual machine data 21 - ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES MIGRATION * Examine upgrade vs. migration * Upgrade a previous version of Active Directory Domain Services to Windows Server 2022 * Migrate to Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2022 from a previous version * Explore the Active Directory Migration Tool 22 - MIGRATE FILE SERVER WORKLOADS USING STORAGE MIGRATION SERVICE * Storage Migration Service overview and usage scenarios * Storage migration requirements * Migrate a server with Storage migration * Evaluate storage migration considerations 23 - MIGRATE WINDOWS SERVER ROLES * Describe the Windows Server Migration Tools * Install the Migration Tools * Migrate roles using the Migration Tools 24 - MIGRATE ON-PREMISES WINDOWS SERVER INSTANCES TO AZURE IAAS VIRTUAL MACHINES * Plan your migration * Describe Azure Migrate * Perform server assessment * Assess physical servers with Azure Migrate * Migrate Windows Server workloads by using Azure Migrate 25 - UPGRADE AND MIGRATE WINDOWS SERVER IAAS VIRTUAL MACHINES * Describe Azure Migrate * Migrate Windows Server workloads by using Azure Migrate * Describe storage migration * Migrate file servers by using Storage Migration Service 26 - CONTAINERIZE AND MIGRATE ASP.NET APPLICATIONS TO AZURE APP SERVICE * Azure Migrate App Containerization overview 27 - MONITOR WINDOWS SERVER PERFORMANCE * Use Performance Monitor to identify performance problems * Use Resource Monitor to review current resource usage * Review reliability with Reliability Monitor * Implement a performance monitoring methodology * Use Data Collector Sets to analyze server performance * Monitor network infrastructure services * Monitor virtual machines running Windows Server * Monitor performance with Windows Admin Center * Use System Insights to help predict future capacity issues * Optimize the performance of Windows Server 28 - MANAGE AND MONITOR WINDOWS SERVER EVENT LOGS * Describe Windows Server event logs * Use Windows Admin Center to review logs * Use Server Manager to review logs * Use custom views * Implement event log subscriptions 29 - IMPLEMENT WINDOWS SERVER AUDITING AND DIAGNOSTICS * Describe basic auditing categories * Describe advanced categories * Log user access * Enable setup and boot event collection 30 - TROUBLESHOOT ACTIVE DIRECTORY * Recover objects from the AD recycle bin * Recover the AD DS database * Recover SYSVOL * Troubleshoot AD DS replication * Troubleshoot hybrid authentication issues 31 - MONITOR WINDOWS SERVER IAAS VIRTUAL MACHINES AND HYBRID INSTANCES * Enable Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines * Monitor an Azure Virtual Machine with Azure Monitor * Enable Azure Monitor in hybrid scenarios * Collect data from a Windows computer in a hybrid environment * Integrate Azure Monitor with Microsoft Operations Manager 32 - MONITOR YOUR AZURE VIRTUAL MACHINES WITH AZURE MONITOR * Monitoring for Azure VMs * Monitor VM host data * Use Metrics Explorer to view detailed host metrics * Collect client performance counters by using VM insights * Collect VM client event logs 33 - TROUBLESHOOT ON-PREMISES AND HYBRID NETWORKING * Diagnose DHCP proble

NFV TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) brings many benefits, this training course cuts through the hype and looks at the technology, architecture and products available for NFV. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how NFV works. * Describe the architecture of NFV. * Explain the relationship between NFV and SDN. * Recognise the impact NFV will have on existing networks. NFV TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to know more about NFV. * Prerequisites: Introduction to Virtualization. * Duration 2 days NFV TRAINING COURSE CONTENT * Introduction What is NfV? What are network Functions? NfV benefits, NfV market drivers. ETSI NfV framework. * Virtualization review Server, storage and network virtualization and NfV. Virtual machines, containers and docker. Data centres, clouds, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS. * Virtualization of Network Functions Network virtualization versus Network Function virtualization. * ETSI NfV architecture ETSI documents, Architecture overview, compute domain, hypervisor domain, infrastructure network domain. * IETF and NfV Creating services, Service Functions, Service Function Chaining. SPRING and source packet routing. YANG and NetConf. RESTCONF. VLANs, VPNs, VXLAN. * MANO Management and Orchestration. OpenStack, OpenDaylight PaaS and NfV. The VNF domain. Service graphs, MANO descriptors, Open orchestration. * The virtualization layer VM centric model, containers versus hypervisors, FD.io. * Summary Deploying NfV, performance, testing. Futures.

ESSENTIAL SDN TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become one of the industries most talked technologies. This training course cuts through the hype and looks at the technology, architecture and products available for SDN along with looking at the impact it may have on your network. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how SDN works. * Describe the architecture of SDN. * Explain the relationship between SDN and OpenFlow. * Recognise the impact SDN will have on existing networks. ESSENTIAL SDN TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to know more about SDN. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 2 days ESSENTIAL SDN TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction What is SDN? What is OpenFlow? SDN benefits. The SDN stack and architecture. * SDN architecture SDN applications, SDN switches, SDN controllers, Network Operating Systems. Control plane, data plane. Control to Data Plane Interface (CDPI), Northbound interfaces. SDN components, control and data plane abstractions. * Network Operating Systems Finding the topology, Global view, control program, configuration based on views, graph algorithm. * OpenFlow Just one part of SDN. Open Networking Foundation, OpenFlow ports, Flow tables, OpenFlow Channels. The OpenFlow protocol, OpenFlow header, OpenFlow operations. OpenFlow versus OpFlex. * SDN and open source OpenDaylight, OpenVSwitch, Open Networking Forum, Open Network Operating System. OpenStack Neutron. * SDN implications Separation of control and data plane, NOS running on servers, Emphasis on edge complexity, core simplicity, OpenvSwitch, Incremental migration, importance of software. SDN vs NVF.

CPRI TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to give the delegate a technical overview of the CPRI protocols and link setup. We will explain the industry cooperation to define the key internal interface between the radio equipment control (REC) and the radio equipment (RE). Also explained will be the SAP that the CPRI link supports for IQ Interface, frame synchronisation, link control and management and the master and slave ports. We will investigate the CPRI block diagram and together with the data formats and sample mapping solutions. The CPRI frame hierarchy and hyperframe construction will be detailed during this three day overview course. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain the CPRI Block diagram. * Understand hyperframing capabilities. * Explain the CPRI frame format. * Understand how the synchronisation is compliant with 3GPP & WiMAX requirements. * Understand the two electrical characteristics of CPRI standard. * Understand the CPRI standards structure. * Understand the CPRI system & Interface definitions. * List the four standard bit rates of the CPRI specification. * Understand the CPRI Protocol stacks. CPRI TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone looking for a technical overview of the CPRI protocols and link set up. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 3 days CPRI TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * System Description Subsystems. Nodes. Protocol layers. Protocol data planes. User data planes. Antenna carriers. Service Access Points (SAP). Link. Passive Link. Hop. Multi-hop Connection. Logical Connection. Master Port & Slave Port. * System Architecture Basic System Architecture & Common Public Radio Interface Definition. System Architecture with a link between Res. Reference configurations: Chain topology, Tree topology, Ring topology. RECs & REs in both chain & tree topology * Functional description Radio Functionality. Functional Decomposition between REC and RE: For UTRA FDD, For WiMAX & E-UTRA, For GSM. CPRI Control Functionality. * Interface Baseline Interface Specification. Protocol Overview. IQ Data. Synchronisation. L1 Inband Protocol. C & M Data. Protocol Extensions. Vendor Specific Information. * Physical Layer Specifications Line Bit Rate. Physical Layer Modes. Electrical Interface. Optical Interface. Line Coding. Bit Error Correction/Detection. Frame Structure. Mapping Methods. Container Blocks. Hyperframes. GSM, UMTS & WiMAX Timing. Link Delay Accuracy & Cable Delay Calibration. Link Maintenance * Data Link Layer (Layer 2) Specification Layer 2 Framing for Fast & Slow C & M Channels. Medium Access Control/Data Mapping. Flow Control. * Start-up Sequence General. Layer 1 Start-up Timer. State Description. Transition Description. * Interoperability Reserved Bandwidth. Version Numbers. * Supplementary Specification Details Delay Calibration Example. Reference Test Points. * List of Abbreviations & Gloss

4G TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to give the delegate an understanding of the technologies used within a 3G UMTS mobile network. During the course we will investigate the UMTS air interface and the use of Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) to facilitate high speed data access, together with HSPA to offer mobile broadband services. We will describe the use of soft handover rather than hard handover procedures and soft capacity sharing. The course includes a brief exploration of the UMTS protocol stack and the use of PDP Context and QoS support features. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain the 3G UMTS architecture. * Describe the role of a Drifting & Serving RNC. * Explain the use of ARQ & HARQ for mobile broadband. * Describe how IMS integrates into the architecture. * Describe the use of Media Gateway Controllers. * Identify the temporary identities used within 3G UMTS. 4G TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working within the telecommunications area, especially within the mobile environment. * Prerequisites: Mobile communications demystified Telecommunications Introduction * Duration 2 days 4G TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * LTE Introduction The path to LTE, 3GPP. LTE to LTE advanced. * LTE Architecture The core, Access, roaming. Protocols: User plane, Control plane. Example information flows. Bearer management. Spectrum allocation. * LTE technologies Transmission, reception, OFDMA, multiple antenna, MIMO. * LTE Air interface Air interface protocol stack. Channels, Resource Grid, cell acquisition. Up and downlink controls. Layer 2 protocols. * Cell acquisition Power on, selecting networks and cells. RRC connection. Attach procedure. * Mobility management Roaming, RRC_IDLE, RRC_CONNECTED, cell reselection, handover, interoperation with UMTS and GSM networks. * Voice and text IMS, QoS, policy and charging.

INTRO TO CONTAINERS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course looks at the technologies of containers and microservices. The course starts with a look at what containers are, moving onto working with containers. Networking containers and container orchestration is then studied. The course finishes with monitoring containers with Prometheus and other systems. Hands on sessions are used to reinforce the theory rather than teach specific products, although Docker and Kubernetes are used. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Use containers. * Build containers. * Orchestrate containers. * Evaluate container technologies. INTRO TO CONTAINERS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Those wishing to work with containers. * Prerequisites: Introduction to virtualization. * Duration 2 days INTRO TO CONTAINERS TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What are containers? Virtualization, VMs, What are containers? What are microservices? Machine containers, application containers. Benefits. * Container runtime tools Docker, LXC, Windows containers. Architecture, components. Hands on Installing Docker client and server. * Working with containers Docker workflow, Docker images, Docker containers, Dockerfile, Building, running, storing images. Creating containers. Starting, stopping and controlling containers. Public repositories, private registries. Hands on Exploring containers. * Microservices What are microservices? Modular architecture, IPC. Hands on Persistence and containers. * Networking containers Linking, no networking, host, bridge. The container Network Interface. Hands on Container networking * Container orchestration engines Docker swarm: Nodes, services, tasks. Apache Mesos: Mesos master, agents, frameworks. Kubernetes: Kubectl, master node, worker nodes. Openstack: Architecture, containers in OpenStack. Amazon ECS: Architecture, how it works. Hands on Setup and access a Kubernetes cluster. * Managing containers Monitoring, logging, collecting metrics, cluster monitoring tools: Heapster. Hands on Using Prometheus with Kubernetes.

Architectural Studies is yet another 'Teacher's Choice' course from Teachers Training for a complete understanding of the fundamental topics. You are also entitled to exclusive tutor support and a professional CPD-accredited certificate in addition to the special discounted price for a limited time. Just like all our courses, this Architectural Studies and its curriculum have also been designed by expert teachers so that teachers of tomorrow can learn from the best and equip themselves with all the necessary skills. Consisting of several modules, the course teaches you everything you need to succeed in this profession. The course can be studied part-time. You can become accredited within 06 Hours studying at your own pace. Your qualification will be recognised and can be checked for validity on our dedicated website. WHY CHOOSE TEACHERS TRAINING Some of our website features are: * This is a dedicated website for teaching * 24/7 tutor support * Interactive Content * Affordable price * Courses accredited by the UK's top awarding bodies * 100% online * Flexible deadline ENTRY REQUIREMENTS No formal entry requirements. You need to have: * Passion for learning * A good understanding of the English language * Be motivated and hard-working * Over the age of 16. CERTIFICATION CPD Certification from The Teachers Training Successfully completing the MCQ exam of this course qualifies you for a CPD-accredited certificate from The Teachers Training. You will be eligible for both PDF copy and hard copy of the certificate to showcase your achievement however you wish. * You can get your digital certificate (PDF) for £4.99 only * Hard copy certificates are also available, and you can get one for only £10.99 * You can get both PDF and Hard copy certificates for just £12.99! The certificate will add significant weight to your CV and will give you a competitive advantage when applying for jobs. Module-01: Introduction to Architectural Studies Introduction to Architectural Studies 00:29:00 Module-02: Ancient Architecture Ancient Architecture 00:15:00 Module-03: Architectural Ideas and Movements Architectural Ideas and Movements 00:25:00 Module-04: Architectural Styles Architectural Styles 00:17:00 Module-05: Art Deco Architectural Style Art Deco Architectural Style 00:20:00 Module-06: Scandinavian Architectural Style Scandinavian Architectural Style 00:24:00 Module-07: Victorian Architectural Style Victorian Architectural Style 00:20:00 Module-08: Classical and Early Christian Architectural Style Classical and Early Christian Architectural Style 00:30:00 Module-09: Gothic Architectural Style Gothic Architectural Style 00:24:00 Module-10: Baroque and Rococo Architectural Style Baroque and Rococo Architectural Style 00:19:00 Module-11: Eclecticism Architectural Style Eclecticism Architectural Style 00:17:00 Module-12: Modern and Post-Modern Architectural Style Modern and Post-Modern Architectural Style 00:30:00 Module-13: Interior Designing Interior Designing 00:26:00 Module-14: Colour in Interior Designing Colour in Interior Designing 00:26:00 Module-15: Lighting in Interior Design Part One Lighting in Interior Design Part One 00:14:00 Module-16: Lighting in Interior Design Part Two Lighting in Interior Design Part Two 00:19:00

TOTAL GPRS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION GPRS is a packet switched access mode for GSM systems, which will enable more efficient use of the radio resources leading to increased data speeds and capacity. It is an important migration step toward 3G networks. This course provides a detailed analysis of the workings and implications of GPRS. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain what GPRS is. * Describe the GPRS protocol stack. * Describe the GPRS architecture TOTAL GPRS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone who needs to know more about GPRS. * Prerequisites: Total GSM * Duration 2 days TOTAL GPRS TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * GPRS network architecture Review of GSM architecture, the new network entities required for GPRS. How the existing GSM network entities needs to be upgraded. How GPRS roaming will work. How intra and inter PLMNs work together. How billing works in the GPRS network. * IP over GPRS Brief review of IP, IP stack over GPRS, IP addressing in GPRS, DHCP, GPRS configuration for IP. IP packet flows. WAP and GPRS. * GPRS interfaces Messaging scenarios used over the GPRS Gb, Gs and Gp Interfaces. How the handset performs a GPRS attach and detach. GPRS roaming and how it works. Links used between GPRS Roaming Exchanges (GRX). GPRS terminal attach message flow in the NSS, PDP context message flow in the NSS, GPRS paging message flow, GPRS terminal detach message flow. * GPRS protocol stack The components of the protocol stack. How each component works. How encapsulated packets are sent. How each component links to the next component. * GPRS air interface The new GPRS channels required. How the new channels work. How to map GPRS logical channels onto physical channels. How they enable session activation. The difference between master PDCHs and slave PDCHs. * GPRS terminals The 3 classes of terminal available. How the handset performs a GPRS attach and detach.

HSPA AND HSPA+ TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) and HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) provide speeds of upto 14Mbps downlink and 5Mbps uplink. This theory-based course provides an overview of the 3GPP R5 and R6 HSDPA/HSUPA standards and the technologies which are involved. The HSPA+ R7 enhancements are also covered. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain the relationship between HSPA and UMTS. * Describe the benefits of HSPA/HSPA+ * Explain the HSPA/HSPA+ technical enhancements. * Explain packet flows in HSPA/HSPA+. * Recognise the migration issues involved with HSPA/HSPA+ HSPA AND HSPA+ TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with HSPA. * Prerequisites: Essential UMTS * Duration 2 days HSPA AND HSPA+ TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * UMTS review UMTS architecture, components, interfaces, protocols, W-CDMA, standards, 3GPPr5, 3GPPr6, evolution to HSDPA and HSPA. * HSPA basics What is HSDPA, what is HSUPA, key features, system capacities, data rates, delays. Key concepts: Adaptive modulation and coding (AMC), QPSK, 16QAM, HARQ, MAC-hs, multiplexing, subframes. * HSPA channels Logical, transport, physical channels, dedicated vs. shared channels, HS-PDSCH, HS-SCCH, HS-DPCCH, code multiplexing, E-DCH, Enhanced DPCCH. * MAC-architecture Controlling HS-DSCH, flow control, buffering, priority queues, packet scheduling, fast packet scheduling, Selecting modulation and coding. HARQ: Packet retransmissions, Incremental redundancy, comparison with ARQ, TFRC. MAC-d, MAC-c/sh, MAC-hs, MAC-es, MAC-e. * HSPA migration HSDPA in the Radio Access Network (RAN), reuse of existing UMTS components, changes required, Impact on Iub/Iur interfaces, new and modified NBAP procedures, backwards compatibility. * Packet flows Packet data session setup, simultaneous voice and data, QoS, TCP flow control, WCDMA packet scheduler, mobility procedures. * HSPA phase 2 (3GPP r6) What is evolved HSPA? Speeds. Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO). Optional all IP architecture. R8 and LTE.