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Wireline Telecom Courses   IP Cable and DOCSIS Training Courses

Understanding DOCSIS IP Cable Systems

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Course Duration: 2 days

Course Code: PWL230

Course Description:

The next generation of telecommunications networks will deliver broadband data and multimedia services to users. IP (Internet Protocol) is the future mechanism for delivering traditional broadcast services. Integration of Internet Access with TV, music and radio distribution will become a reality provided mechanisms to provide IP multicast delivery are implemented.

 

DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications) is a set of standards produced by the Cable Television industry for delivering Internet access and other data services over traditional cable television networks. It has evolved from version 1 with version 2 being the current standard. Version 3 offers the Cable Industry the ability to produce bonded services to customers at speeds in excess of 100 Mbit/s. Versions exist for North American and European markets separately.

 

This course provides an understanding of how modern installed Cable systems work today, how they have evolved from analogue into digital services using DOCSIS and Euro-DOCSIS 1.0/2.0. The course then discusses how these services will continue to evolve with the services offered in the DOCSIS 3.0 standard. It will further identify the motivations and mechanisms that will be used to allow new cable systems to support voice, IPTV, Video on demand and provide IMS services for convergence with new 3G mobile networks.

 

Objectives:

 

When you have completed this course you will be able to:

 

- Describe the basic structure of DOCSIS and Euro-DOCSIS standards

- Select the appropriate parts of the DOCSIS specifications

- Implement the required services at the customer and network sides

- Provide Baseline Privacy Plus service

- Select appropriate IP service mechanisms for Address Allocation

- Carry Internet services over cable network infrastructures

Prerequisites:

Delegates should have a solid understanding of IP and data networking.

Prerequisite courses:

Hands On TCP/IP and Internet Protocols

This course includes the following modules:

Evolution of Digital Cable Systems

• CATV evolution
• Analogue cable services
• Motivation for Digital Cable
• Anatomy of a modern cable TV service
• Data over cable
• Cable Modems
• Structure of Standardization
• DOCSIS and Euro-DOCSIS Standardization
• DOCSIS 1.1 and 2.0
• Objectives of DOCSIS 3.0
• Relationship with ETSI DVB and ITU

Radio Frequency Specifications

• Upstream and downstream channel characteristics
• Radio Frequency Interface Specification
• Functional Assumptions
• Protocol Stack on the RF interface
• Data forwarding through the interface
• MAC requirements and operation

Physical Medium Dependent Sublayer Specification

• Signal Processing Requirements
• Modulation Formats
• R-S Frame Structure
• S-CDMA Framing Considerations
• Downstream Transmission Convergence Sublayer
• MPEC Payload for DOCSIS
• MAC Control Specification
• Quality of Service and fragmentation
• Cable Modem CMTS Interaction
• Downloading Cable Modem Software

Cable Modem to Customer Premise Equipment

• Interface
• Customer Side
• Functional Reference Model
• Internal and External modem considerations
• Standalone Modems
• Interfaces; Ethernet and USB
• CPE Controlled Cable Modems
• CCCM Protocol Requirements
• Internal PCI Interfaces
• PHY
• Diagnostics
• Security Considerations

Cable Modem Termination System – Network Side Interface Specification

• IP over ATM
• IP over DS3
• IP over FDDI
• IP over IEEE 802
• IP over Ethernet

Operations Support System Interface Specification

• Operational Management with SNMP
• Operational and Network Side
• Functional Reference
• Transmission over ATM
• Transmission over FDDI
• Transmission over IEEE 802
• Transmission over Ethernet
• SNMP Management
• Management Information Bases
• SNMPv1, SNMPv2c and SNMPv3
• OSSI RF Interface

Baseline Privacy Plus Interface Specification

• DOCSIS MAC Frame Formats
• Baseline Privacy Key Management (BPKM) Protocol
• Dynamic SA Mapping
• Key Usage
• Cryptographic Methods
• Physical Protection of Keys
• BPI+ X.509 Certificate profile and management

DOCSIS 3.0 MAC and Upper Layer Protocols

• Interface Specification
• DOCSIS 3.0 MULPI Key Features
• MAC Operation
• Multicast Operation
• Network and Higher Layer Protocols
• CM and CMP Provisioning and Management
• Relationship to Physical HCF Plant and topology
• Cable Modem Service Group (CM-SG)
• CMTS Downstream Service Model
• MAC Specifications
• MAC Formats
• Time Sync
• Upstream features
• Dynamic Service Features
• Dynamic Bonding
• MAC Protocol Operation
• Quality of Service
• Channel Bonding
• Data Forwarding
• Dynamic Bonding and Load Balancing

DOCSIS 3.0 Physical Layer Specification

• Frequency Plan
• Compatibility with other services
• Fault isolation
• Cable system terminal devices
• RF Channels
• Physical Medium Dependent Sublayer

Digital Certificate Validation and Reissue

• Operational Status Visualisation
• Data over Cable Reference Architecture
• Radio Frequency Specifications
• Cable Modem to Customer Premise Equipment Interface
• Network Side Interface Specification
• Operations Support System Interface Specification
• Baseline Privacy Plus Interface Specification
• Acceptance Testing

 

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