Mobile Networks Evolution
March 27, 2011
Almost two years back my work made me realize that I needed to get familiar with mobile networks. I had spent most of my working life in working with data networks – TCP/IP networks to be precise. Telecommunication networks was a completely unknown beast. I soon realized that I had still underestimated it.
- Ever confusing standards documentation.
- Infinite acronyms.
- Lot of Jargon.
- Misinformation and misrepresentations in the literature available in public domain
- Too many pieces to know where to start; how to proceed
- Vendor proprietary behavior
- No access to real systems to validate understanding
I created this presentation in a view to provide a concise view of basic understanding required to develop deeper insights into mobile networks. This is not meant to be an expert level treatment as each slide probably deserves a full presentation of its own. However, when one wants to start developing deeper understanding of mobile networks this presentation should provide the big-picture view of things. It should make clear the reason for existence of each piece of this picture and its relation with the other pieces.
The presentation is available here
March 31, 2011 at 2:06 PM
[...] to Gandhar Gokhale, our speaker for making the presentation available along with a blog post. This link takes you to the blog post. A link to the presentation is at the bottom of the blog post. [...]
April 4, 2011 at 5:52 PM
And another twist in the 4G tale: http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2010/48.aspx
Now ITU says 4G is “undefined” and LTE and WiMAX are entitled to the 4G ‘designation’.