Basic Cellular Networks Operator Course

Basic Fundamentals of Cellular Network Operations

4.49 (2437 reviews)

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What you will learn

Understand the fundametnal principles used in creating a cellular communication network.

Gain a solid foundation for better understanding protocol specific network thoery like GSM and CDMA.

Why take this course?

About This Course

Learn the fundamental concepts that every cellular network operator needs to know about cell phone architecture and functionality. This course is tailored to students with little to no background in RF Engineering who want to learn the practical functions of how a cell phone network operates.

Description.

This course covers fundamental principles used in wireless telecommunication including discussions about the history of cellular communications, radio frequency engineering, cell site planning, equipment components, and call processes. By taking this course students will quickly grasp the same complicated subjects that are taught to military intelligence and law enforcement officers who work with cellular telecommunications in their respective duties.

This course is designed to be a beginner level class for students that are studying cellular protocol theory. This class does not cover a specific cell phone protocol, rather it provides an overview of fundamental principles used in every type of cellular network architecture. The topics discussed in this class are universal to all cell phone protocols and thus are necessary for those studying advanced protocol theory.

This course is ideal for students who are either interested in RF engineering as a career or academic field, employees of wireless service providers, members of law enforcement or military, or professionals with a need to understand the basic workings of cellular technology. The lessons taught in this course are extremely valuable to anyone who is going to study specific cellular protocols. I recommend this course first to anyone interested in taking my more advanced courses in GSM, CDMA, or UMTS.

The course uses a teaching method and approach that was developed for teaching military and law enforcement officers. It takes into account that most students do not have an engineering background. No complex math or abstract principles are presented, and every concept is illustrated with in depth talking points.

Course Instructor.

This course is presented by retired Army sergeant Josh Russell. Josh is a SIGNAL Intelligence and military intelligence expert with a background in special operations (SOF).

Reviews

Ray

May 9, 2023

This is a good refresher for information about the cellular network and how they work on a broader scope.

Jason

December 14, 2022

Great information, tho the volume could be a little louder... had to turn the speakers all the way up to be able to hear it.

Nikhil

November 22, 2022

Great course to learn about the basics of Mobile and Telecommunication technology and Generations in general.

Clay

September 11, 2022

With the intended target audience I though the material was well taught. Although I have been in the industry for a long time I wanted to see what kind of course was being offered. I wish we had this kind of offer 30 years ago if for no other reason then to present to new potential employees for a screening process

Richard

July 5, 2022

I am concerned about his discussion on network modeling. I assume a cell network fits the 7 layer model. and the instructor is creating his own model that will not help students long term.

Adeel

January 20, 2022

Not very engaging. Just a dump of information mostly with very little connection to application of it.

Kevin

December 2, 2021

Excellent course. John is an awesome presenter and the slides were very well documented. Thank you John. I am a retired AT&T PBX Engineer on Nortel/Northern Telecom PBX switches.

Steven

December 2, 2021

The instructor has an excellent grasp of the historical path of communications from the battlefield of WWII to our current cay. I enjoy his presentation

Rob

November 29, 2021

Exceptional so far. Had some difficulty with the course transition from historical to technical (Network layers).

Luqman

July 20, 2021

Taking this course makes me realize that there's a lot of process going on in the background of our daily online activity that we take for granted. Very well explained and easy to understand. Absolutely amazing course!

Kristen

July 9, 2021

Well spoken instructor with detailed outline and easy to understand graphics. Information is very old though and doesn't cover any new 5G networking technologies.

Barbara

June 2, 2021

I am brand new to this telecommunications field. So far I like the pace and foundational knowledge of this course.

Serghei

April 17, 2020

The course author is obviously passionate about radio technologies and knows a lot about them. The information is very well structured.

Daniel

March 30, 2020

If possible, would suggest reviewing or modifying the closed captioning. See #6 for example, you get arson and arse instead of ARFCN quite a lot which may be confusing for someone who is new. I also didn't agree that paging messages "always" contain sensitive identifiers. LTE primarily uses TMSI in paging messages at least in the CONUS. I did appreciate this course delivering the basics of cellular networks and it staying as protocol agnostic as possible. I will definitely be recommending this course.

Anonymized

March 17, 2020

Really good course and provides insight to the basics, I can only recommend! I guess I'd have loved to learn more about the digital conversion of radio signals, and how CDMA works