Workshop on Intercarrier Interconnection
3 DAYS
INSTRUCTOR LED WORKSHOP
“OUR COURSES CAN BE SPECIALLY TAILORED TO ADDRESS YOUR REQUIREMENT – TELECONTRAN”
COURSE OBJECTIVES
With the adoption of modern technologies such as 4G, 5G and cloud-based network infrastructure models, organizations have a need to connect their private networks to each other or to connect multiple operators together. By providing low latency and high availability connections, Intercarrier Interconnection allows telecom operators to optimize and streamline the resource sharing from multiple sources.
Workshop on Intercarrier Interconnection provides a comprehensive analysis of interconnection market trends and the principal business drivers that regulates the interconnection strategies along with interconnection services, costing and pricing models, IOT, IOT negotiations and infrastructure sharing.
After successful completion of this 3-day workshop participants will be able to
- Understand the need for intercarrier interconnection along with its principles and how it can connect multiple operators, regulator and other telecommunication organizations.
- Describe the various challenges facing telecommunication organizations which are confronted by the unprecedented network infrastructure issues.
- Gain knowledge on IOT negotiation and its processing and necessary follow ups.
- Make their own cost model analysis on interconnection before moving towards agreement signing with other stakeholders.
- Sketch main economic issues regarding the efficient provisioning of interconnection in inter-domain level.
COURSE CURRICULUM
This course is specially designed for strategic or technical managers, consultants, communications professionals, system engineers, network professionals, who are involved in Telecommunication regulation and policy-making and specially as well as managers and personnel responsible for international traffic, roaming, commercial arrangements and settlements.
Introduction to Intercarrier Interconnection
- Need for Intercarrier Interconnection
- Regulations and Regulator
- Challenges for the regulator
- Regulators’ responsibilities in the interconnection market
- Interconnection strategies
Interconnection Agreement and Services
- Relationships between Telecom Operators
- Reference Interconnection Offer (RIO)
- Interconnection links and Leased lines
- Dark fiber
- Call Termination and Origination services
- Value added services
- Buildings, ducts and masts
- Databases and OSS
- Wholesale Services Business
- Responsibilities of the Carrier Services group
Network Access and Interconnection
- Overview of Telecom Network
- Network construction
- Next Generation Network
- Forms of Interconnection
- Forms of international Interconnection agreements
- Setting Interconnection Prices
- Setting international Interconnection Prices
- Cross-border Interconnection and its economics
Cost Modelling – Economic Policies and Methods
- Tariff and Pricing
- New charging methods (or models, if applicable) for services provided over NGN networks
- Different models for infrastructure sharing
- Top-Down Model and Bottom-Up Model
- FAC, LRIC, LRIC+
- Consumer price evolution and impact on ICT service usage
- Mergers and Acquisition
- Taxation
- Trends in the development of MVNO
- Best-practice guidelines
Wholesale and Retail Pricing
- Wholesale Concept
- M2M, VoLTE Wholesale Pricing
- Retail Pricing Model
- Mark-up Pricing
- Bundle pricing
- RLH
Interconnection Billing System
- Billing system
- Support of different price plans
- Settlement features
- Disputes handling
- Billing and Charging Evolution (BCE)
- Data and Financial Clearing House and Processes
Inter Operator Tariff (IOT) and IOT Negotiation
- Standard IOT
- IOT Data Analysis — Traffic volumes, TAP charges, Discounts, Retail rates, Costs
- IOT Strategy, Target Setting and Tactics
- IOT Discount Models
- IOT Negotiation Process and Follow-up
- Negotiation as a group and with a group
- IOT Negotiation in Future
Infrastructure Sharing
- Types and Models of Infrastructure sharing
- Passive and Active Infrastructure Sharing
- Efficiency improvements: coverage, quality and pricing
- Regulatory approval for infrastructure sharing
- Controls on charges
- Regulatory safeguards
- International practices on Infrastructure Sharing
Inter-Carrier Interconnection Services – QoS, Economics and Business Issues
- Wholesale and Retail QoS measures
- QoS for NGN interconnection
- Interconnection congestion
- Preferred QoS KPIs for Voice Service quality
- KPIs for SLA
TRAINING/WORKSHOP | DURATION | TRAINING DATE | LOCATION |
Workshop on Intercarrier Interconnection | 3 Days | 2nd Dec. - 4th Dec., 2024 | Suva, Fiji |
OUR HAPPY CLIENTS
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY ABOUT TELECONTRAN !!
The training content is well organized and the trainer has very good expertise in the subject matter.
This training helped me to understand new 5G technologies and its applications and processes related to Roaming and roaming frauds.
This training was very detailed and informative conducted by the trainer and we enjoyed how he kept it simple and provided many examples to help us understand.
I found this workshop very interesting and relevant to the International roaming tasks that I am currently doing.
The training is very much informative and it offers very good overview of roaming that covers both commercial and technical aspects.
