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Understanding IMS and TISPAN

2 Day Course
Code PWL030

This course has been superseded by the IMS & SIP Technical Description course.

Modules

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Architecture and overview (6 topics)

  • Why & What is IMS (IP Multimedia subsystem)?
  • Market trends
  • "All IP" solutions
  • IMS in the mobile environment
  • IMS in the wireline environment
  • Operator versus Enterprise usage

Standardization (13 topics)

  • Sources
  • 3GPP(Release 5,6)
  • 3GPP2 (Multimedia Domain, MMD)
  • IETF
  • ETSI ¿½ TISPAN
  • IMS Standards overview (Release 5 vs. Release 6
  • IMS key components (X-CSCF, MG, MS, SIP-AS, HSS)
  • IMS key interfaces and interactions (ISC, Sh, Cx)
  • IMS User Identities
  • IMS Registration and Session Control
  • IMS Charging
  • IMS QoS Issues and relation to underlying access networks
  • IMS Security

Access to IMS (4 topics)

  • PLMN
  • WLAN
  • Wireline
  • Broadband

Nodes (10 topics)

  • P-CSCF
  • I-CSCF
  • S-CSCF
  • Databases: HSS & SLF
  • Application Servers (AS)
  • Border Gateways (BG)
  • Media Resource Function (MRF)
  • Breakout Gateway Control Function (BGCF)
  • Interworking
  • QoS

SIP in IMS (6 topics)

  • Session control
  • Servers & Proxies
  • Message format
  • SIP Transactions
  • Responses
  • Registrations

IMS Service provision principles and interfaces (4 topics)

  • General operation and interfaces
  • Service provisioning in the IMS (filter criteria vs. service identities)
  • Operation modes and example call flows
  • IMS Application Server options

Services (9 topics)

  • Multimedia (Voice, Video, Realtime media transport: RTP/RTCP)
  • Unified Messaging
  • Push-to-talk
  • Presence
  • Delivery of services
  • 3rd party service providers (VHE, OSA)
  • Creation of new services
  • IMS over IPv4 and IPv6
  • ENUM

Security in IMS (4 topics)

  • Access
  • Authentication
  • IPsec
  • Media authorization

AAA Protocols (4 topics)

  • DIAMETER
  • Billing (CDR creation)
  • COPS
  • Policy (PDP/PDF/PEP)

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Prerequisites

Delegates should have a good understanding of data networking and Voice over IP.

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