WiMAX Overview ^TM

Course Description:

This course is designed for students in non-technical job titles, who require a brief tutorial on WiMAX applications, services, operations, and network architecture. It is an ideal overview course for students who will be planning, financing, managing, marketing, selling, or supporting a WiMAX product or service.

The WiMAX Overview gives a one-day briefing on the key characteristics of the variety of networks which feature WiMAX standard equipment. You’ll understand the distinctions between fixed and mobile network architectures and services, between backhaul and access business cases, and between networks designed for business versus residential service.

DoceoTech features expert instructors, interactive class experiences, and cutting-edge perspective on the issues. DoceoTech is the full service WiMAX training company, with standards-based WiMAX course offerings for design engineers, fundamental courses for managers, and certification tracks for implementers.

Course length:

1 day
 

Course Outline:

Module 1: Overview of Broadband Wireless Markets, Applications, and Requirements
  Ø       Architecture of a broadband wireless access network
  Ø       The variety of WiMAX Operators
  Ø       WiMAX Access from a Laptop
  Ø       WiMAX Access from Residence
  Ø       WiMAX Access from a Small Business
  Ø       WiMAX Quality of Service
  Ø       WiMAX and mobility
  Ø       The role of the WiMAX Forum™
     Ø       WiMAX Profiles

Module 2: WiMAX Products
  Ø       Product types
  Ø       Subscriber Stations: outdoor, indoor, PCMCIA, PDA,
            laptop
  Ø       Government regulation and spectrum licensing
  Ø       North American view
  Ø       Global view

Module 3:  WiMAX Competitive Environment
  Ø       Competing technologies
  Ø       Fixed: DSL, Cable Modem, BPON, Pre-802.16
            proprietary
  Ø       Nomadic/Mobile: 2.5G, 3G, Wi-Fi, 802.20, Pre-
            802.16e proprietary
  Ø       Competing vendors
  Ø       Value proposition for 802.16 in fixed subscriber
            stations
  Ø       Value proposition for 802.16 in nomadic/mobile
            subscriber stations
  Ø       Competing network operators

Module 4:  WiMAX Applications
  Ø       Backhaul (WiFi, 2.5G, 3G)
  Ø       Public Networks
  Ø       Business customers, MTUs,
  Ø       Single Family Residences, SOHO, urban/rural
  Ø       Hotspots (e.g. airports)
  Ø       Private Networks
  Ø       Campus networks (business parks, corporate/education campuses)

Module 5: Planning a WiMAX Service
  Ø       Analyzing Requirements and Defining Services
  Ø       Determining which of the six business models are best for you
  Ø       Developing an order-of-magnitude network cost estimate
  Ø       Network Architecture and Equipment Choices
  Ø       Forecasting demand and service penetration
  Ø       Quantifying financial investment, cost and return

Module 6: Wireless Issues for the subscriber
  Ø       Coverage
  Ø       Noise and Interference
  Ø       Multipath: Why multi-carrier approaches?

Module 7: The Mobile future: 802.16e
  Ø       Why a mobile version of 802.16?
  Ø       802.16e adoption forecast
  Ø       Handover
  Ø       Cell Selection