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4G Network Essentials
IMT
  • Start Date: 19 Oct, 2017
  • Self-Paced
  • Study Content: Videos


Advance your telecom career by learning how 4G networks enable internet access for smartphone users anytime, anywhere.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: 49.00 USD
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Introduction

Introduction Video

Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and Edx partnership.

4G is the cutting-edge network technology that links millions of smartphones to the internet. But how does it actually work?


Ideal for network engineers, sales engineers, application developers, and many other telecoms pros, this course will help you to understand the technology behind the apps and devices we use every day.


You’ll get a solid overview of LTE/EPC (Long Term Evolution / Evolved Packet Core) 4G networks, how they work, how the network architecture is designed, and which protocols are used.


First, you’ll gain exposure to the global architecture of the network, how the radio interface works, and how security is guaranteed.


Then you’ll dive into the operational side. What is a bearer? How is it quickly configured and released? How does 4G handle millions of terminals that are on the move all the time?


Over the next few years, the advent of 5G will see over 20 billion mobile terminals go online.


By mastering the key concepts of 4G, you can be ready for the next chapter in mobile networking—and the jobs of the future.


Whether you’re a graduate student or already in a professional role, targeting a career move or just building your skills, you’ll gain plenty of detailed, practical knowledge that you can put into practice immediately.


This course is supported by the Patrick and Lina Drahi Foundation.

Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

IMT

Institut Mines-Télécom is a public institution dedicated to higher education, research and innovation in engineering and digital technologies. Always attentive to the economic world, IMT combines strong academic legitimacy, close corporate relations. It focuses on key transformations in Digital Technologies, Production, Energy and Ecology and trains the engineers, managers and PhDs who will be tomorrow’s players in these key changes of the 21st century. Its activities are conducted in Mines and Télécom graduate schools under the aegis of the Minister for Industry and Electronic Communication, one subsidiary school and three strategic partners. The IMT’s schools rank among the leading graduate schools in France.

 

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with Edx.

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