Diploma in Telecom

At the level of big networks and internetworks, some experts believe that it is no longer reliable to work with small Operating Systems like we did with LANs. For reliability and security purposes among many reasons, big networks often use ‘big’ Operating Systems such as UNIX and Linux (GSM ‘servers’, called MSCs, use UNIX).

In this course, we shall use Linux Operating System to give you a detailed insight into how Servers are configured and how they work with big Operating Systems. This course will particularly be of interest for persons who would like to work as Switch Engineer for telecom operators.

A major issue with big networks is SECURITY. Deliberate measures must be taken, both within the operating system and via the introduction of 3rd party software or hardware (called Firewalls) to ensure that only authorized persons have a pre-assigned level of access to network resources.

As simple as this may sound, it is a very complex issue and therefore is given a special place in in this course.

COURSE OUTLINE

Linux Overview
Differences between Linux and Windows Operating System
History of Linux Operating System
Linux Distributions
Linux Graphics User Interface (GUI)
Red Hat Linux installation
Administration of Linux GUI Environment
Linux File System
Basic Linux commands
Creation of Directories & Files using GUI and CLI
Creating User Accounts, Groups, Permission using GNOME and CLI
Introduction to networking over Linux OS
Connecting Linux to another Linux using NFS
Setting up a LAN with Red Hat Linux and windows
Connecting Linux and Windows Operating System using SAMBA
Virtualization over Linux Operating System

Linux PREREQUISITE

* Installing and configuring Local Area Network (wired)
* Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Suppose you have a corporate network (LAN) at 3 different branches of your company across the country; now you need to connect all three branches to your head office in London. In other words, you need to internetwork the functional LANs of your company.

One way to accomplish this is to connect the individual LANs to the internet and then introduce Routers at the exit/entry point of each LAN as Gateways to recognize and deliver packet to specific LANs. This way, your signal is routed through a public network but delivered to a private network. Switches within the private networks would then take over from Routers to deliver specifically to the destination computer within the network.

This course teaches you to install, configure and maintain Cisco Routers to play the role described above, in connecting several LANs together to form an internetwork.  The various commands you must enter in the Cisco Router to make this possible will not only be discussed, but you will also have the rare privilege of configuring and seeing them work in a lab of several Cisco Routers and Switches.

CISCO DEVICES INSTALLATION

Internetworking & Router Configuration
Introduction to Cisco Devices
Installation & Configuration of Cisco Switches &Routers
Maintaining Cisco Switches & Routers

PRE-REQUISITE COURSE:

• LAN Setup & Configuration
• CCNA Training CERTIFICATION: The training also prepares you to take the CCNA certifications
• Linux Administration

RF equipment here basically refers to RF Radio, Antenna, Feeder Cables, Connectors, etc. The concept of RF enables more and more people/devices to remain mobile while still connected to a network.  A typical example here is the wireless connection between mobile phones and the operator’s BTS which is accessible everywhere, every time.

From scenarios as simple as connecting LANs in two offices together using radios and antennas in a LOS, Point to Point architecture to complex scenarios of connecting thousands of handsets to a Base Station without cables (NLOS, PmPt), RF principles are basically the same and are covered under this course.

These same principles can be applied in various formats, at different frequencies or manipulated to give birth to new standards. You will learn to configure Base Stations for Non Line of Site (NLOS) operations with Customer Premise Equipment (CPEs); you will learn to configure Radios for Point to Point communication, say between a branch office and its head office; you will learn to design RF networks in general, before they pass to the implementation stage.

At the end of the training, you would have covered the curriculum for the Certified Wireless Network Administrator, CWNA and qualify to write the certification exam.

COURSE OUTLINE:

RF Planning & Implementation

RF Planning using Software
RF Site Survey
Installing & Connecting Antennas for 2.4GHz RF.
Entering & Navigating Radios.
Basic Radio Configuration.

ISP Base Station Configuration

Base Station Hardware Installation.
Installing Network Software
Configuring IP Settings
Configuring VLANs
Configuring Base Station as Access Point
Wireless Bridge, Repeater, WDS. Configuring Security. Configuring Firewall & NAT. Configuring WAN Parameters.

This course is the advanced part of GSM Engineering. Whereas GSM Engineering is a horizontal overview of the operation of the entire network, PDH/SDH is more of a vertical approach to the working of the Radio and the Transmission aspects of the network.
You will work with a PDH and SDH radios, and configure for transmission of signals assembled from BTSs.  On successfully completing the software commissioning and operation of the PDH and SDH radios, you would then progress to integrate all the individually configured components into a single network.

BTS: Software Commissioning & Operation
PDH: Installation Commissioning & Operation
SDH: Installation Commissioning & Operation
BTS/PDH/SDH Network Integration

PDH/SDH Transmission PREREQUISITE:  
RF Engineering & GSM Engineering