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. Youll 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
         Architecture of a broadband wireless access network
         The variety of WiMAX Operators
         WiMAX Access from a Laptop
         WiMAX Access from Residence
         WiMAX Access from a Small Business
         WiMAX Quality of Service
         WiMAX and mobility
         The role of the WiMAX Forum
            WiMAX Profiles

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

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

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

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

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

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