COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops.

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of TETRA radio telecoms system. It covers the trunk mobile communications, trunking concepts and benefits, current trunk mobile systems, iDEN, Tetrapol and TETRA technology; the ETSI standardization, role of TETRA MoU, current operational TETRA equipment and systems; the possible future developments in TETRA technology; and the various features and services of TETRA including TETRA technology, voice and data services, bearer services, teleservices and supplementary services.

Further, the course will also discuss the circuitswitched data, packet switched data, IP packet data and short data service (SDS); the voice coding, management resourcing, direct mode operation (DMO) and support for value added services; the spectral efficiency, security aspects, service availability, range of applications for TETRA and TETRA as a PCS; the TETRA architecture covering BS, LSC, MSC, LS, MT, TE, network and standard interfaces; and the standard gateways, TM air interfaces, ISI, TEI, LSI, NMI, etc. 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the TETRA air interface including spectrum allocations and channel assignment; the physical and logical channels, TDMA structure, medium access control sublayers, etc; the TETRA security and billing in TETRA networks covering authentication, encryption, end to end encryption and billing; the TETRA and public mobile systems pertaining to GSM services and features; the convergence of TETRA and GSM; the evolution of TETRA towards 3G services; and unifying TETRA and UMTS.