Our Approach

We teach you best-practise methodologies using your data and your tools

Commsquare offers instructor-led training courses, highly interactive and advanced workshops and on-the-job training.

Characteristics of Commsquare training services are:

Hands-on, using Your Data and Your Tools

After explaining technology principles and engineering methodologies, a substantial amount of time is spent on exercises and case studies using your data and your tools.

Field-proven Methodologies

Commsquare courses teach you field-proven and best-practise methodologies on how to plan, validate and optimise your mobile network and services.

Experienced "Engineer Trainers"

Commsquare trainers have many years of operator experience and continue to work in Commsquare consultancy projects to stay up-to-day with technology advances.

Tailored

Thanks to their modular design, Commsquare courses can be easily tailored to your specific needs.

End-to-end View

In particular for data service, Commsquare courses contain an end-to-end view including radio and system aspects, as well as service network and application performance.

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Testimonials

"A novel approach using data from our network."
"Very knowledgeable instructors; highly-interactive training."
"We were able to apply the knowledge straight away."

Manager, T-Mobile Hungary:

"The training on UMTS planning delivered to us by Commsquare has been the most comprehensive and learningful training we received up to now. Both the training content and the trainer were excellent. I think all participants support this opinion."

RF Manager, Vodafone Romania:

"The training by Commsquare proved to be of great help to the RF engineers in Connex. It was a well balanced mix of theory & practical exercises.
The exercises used in the training were based on real data taken from OUR network. So we were able to understand the issues and to apply the knowledge straight away.
The trainer was a very knowledgeable instructor, with great depth of hands-on experience on networking, telecom & RF fields. Using a friendly and supportive approach to the class, he managed to create a nice environment to learn & understand complex subjects."

Open Courses

Commsquare Open Training Courses are designed to capture all of the key attributes of our bespoke training courses, but in a more flexible environment. Open courses offer individuals the chance to participate in a mixed environment, or alternatively for operators to send as many, or as few engineers as they can spare for each session.

Upcoming Courses in 2010

13-15 Sep	3GPP Long Term Evolution (3 days) (Athens, Greece)
04-07 Oct	TCP IP over Mobile Networks (4 days) (Athens, Greece)
18-21 Oct	LTE / SAE Introduction: E-UTRAN & Evolved Packet Core (4 days) (Athens, Greece)

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UMTS/HSPA

UMTS Radio Engineering and Planning (3d)

The course is aimed at engineers involved in UMTS planning and design validation.
Following topics are covered: introduction to UMTS (WCDMA basic theory, link budget, radio resource utilisation), UMTS cell planning and design validation. 

UMTS Radio Optimisation and RRC Signalling (4d)

The course focuses on radio interface and the use of scanner and drive test data to detect poor radio design and network problems. Explains how to improve radio network design and optimise network performance. The concepts of RRC signalling are introduced and examples of normal and abnormal RRC signalling behaviour are presented through guided exercises from the operator's drive-test data.

UMTS UTRAN Signalling and Protocols (4d)

Signalling procedures in the circuit-switched and packet-switched domain: RRC (Uu), NBAP (Iub), RANAP (Iu), RNSAP (Iur) and ALCAP; RRC Connection Establishment & Release, RAB & Radio Bearer Setup & Release, Handover, Radio Link Setup & Deletion. 3G/2G handover. All procedures are demonstrated with the operator's own data.  

HSPA System Overview and Validation (3d)

A training course aimed at providing engineers with detailed technology principles and operational knowledge on HSPA networks. In the course students analyse trace data from live HSPA networks, demonstrating technology principles, and learn the principles of HSPA performance validation. 

UMTS/PS & HSPA Performance Analysis and Optimisation (4d)

This is our most advanced 3G optimisation course completely focused on PS services. During this hands-on training 65% of the time is spent on guided exercises. Both basic and advanced HSPA topics are covered, such as mobility analysis in a 2^nd carrier network. The attendee will acquire a good working knowledge of TCP/IP, which is a must for the analysis of data services. The training is finalised with a HSPA performance analysis/optimisation workshop, covering topics as latency, static throughput performance and impact of mobility on throughput for different vendor implementations.

Workshops

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GPRS

GPRS & EDGE Performance Analysis and Optimisation (4d)

The course explains how to measure GPRS radio and system performance, identify causes for poor performance, improve it and set up test scenarios to validate the solution. Typical test cases studied are: ping "delay" analysis, file up- & download, web browsing, impact of TCP/IP on GPRS performance. 

Workshops

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GSM

GSM Radio Optimisation and Um Signalling (4d)

The course is aimed at RF engineers that will get involved in optimisation. The students will learn how to analyse drive test data for trouble shooting, identify problems and define corrective actions. Course topics are: drop call analysis, cell overlap and dominant server verification, handover behaviour, interference & lack of coverage, radio signalling. 

GSM BSS Signalling and Protocols (Um, Abis, A) (4d)

The course is aimed at radio and system engineers who need to fully understand Radio (Um), Abis and A-interface signalling. Upon completion, students will be able to identify normal and abnormal signalling cases, causes for poor performance and define corrective actions. 

GSM Optimisation using Abis and A-interface data (3d)

The course is aimed at optimisation engineers that need to go beyond trouble-shooting using drive test data. The course explains the principles of the Abis and A-interface and demonstrates how crucial these data sources are for radio and system optimisation. 

GSM Frequency Planning Strategies (3d)

The course explains different frequency planning strategies: hopping vs. non-hopping, baseband vs. synthesizer hopping, 1x1 vs. 1x3 vs. multiple reuse pattern. Frequency planning in multi-layer and multi-band networks. Access vs. traffic overflow layer. The different strategies will be evaluated against the operator's own spectrum availability and network design. 

Workshops

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Core Network

 REL 4 Core Network

This course explains the difference between R4 and R99 network, gives an overview of the SCTP protocol and explains how to understand and analyze different R4 implementations 

 TCP/IP and Release 4 Core Network

This course gives a TCP/IP technology overview in combination with R4 Core network.

TCP-IP Suite for GPRS and UMTS Troubleshooting

The goal is to give an overview of all IP protocols relevant in GPRS and UMTS networks and study cases of good and poor performance.

 IP & Application workshops

LTE

  LTE Fundamentals, Radio Protocol & Network Architecture

This course provides a detailed understanding of the physical layer, the protocol and the architecture of the LTE radio access networks as defined in 3GPP Release 8. The course introduces basic principles of the OFDM/SC-FDMA based physical layer, and concepts such as MIMO antenna technologies, link adaptation, radio resource management, interference coordination and scheduling algorithms.