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Transmission Network Engineering Training Course

Develops engineering skills for transmission networks that carry voice, data and video between access, core and data centres, supporting 5G and fibre services.

TEOP · Telecommunications Engineering & OptimizationAll Levels#2805ClassroomEnglish , Arabic
Duration
5 Days
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Sectors:Telecommunications & Satellite TechnologyCategories:Telecommunications Engineering & Optimization

Course Overview

Transmission networks are the backbone of modern telecommunications, carrying voice, data, and video traffic between access networks, core networks, data centres, and service platforms. Reliable transmission engineering is essential for maintaining service availability, meeting capacity demands, and supporting technologies such as 5G, fibre broadband, and cloud-based services. This course develops practical skills in transmission network planning, design, capacity assessment, and performance optimisation. Participants examine fibre-optic transmission, microwave radio links, optical transport technologies, network topologies, and redundancy mechanisms, with a focus on selecting appropriate solutions for different traffic requirements and operating conditions. The programme also covers link performance, bandwidth planning, latency, signal degradation, fault localisation, and service continuity. Through technical exercises, participants learn to evaluate transmission requirements, identify network bottlenecks, troubleshoot common faults, and develop engineering solutions that improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand transmission network architecture and engineering principles.
  • Plan transmission capacity based on traffic demand and service requirements.
  • Evaluate fibre-optic, microwave, and optical transport technologies.
  • Analyse link budgets, latency, bandwidth, and signal quality.
  • Design resilient transmission paths and protection mechanisms.
  • Identify transmission faults and determine their root causes.
  • Apply performance monitoring and network optimisation techniques.
  • Develop practical solutions for transmission reliability and capacity improvement.

Who Should Attend

Transmission and telecom network engineers. Optical fibre and microwave engineers. Network planning and design specialists. Telecom operations and maintenance teams. IP and core network engineers. Network performance and optimisation specialists. Technical project managers and infrastructure consultants.

Learning Outcomes

  • Interpret transmission network architectures and topologies.
  • Evaluate transmission technologies against capacity and availability requirements.
  • Calculate basic link budgets and assess transmission performance.
  • Identify bandwidth constraints, latency issues, and signal degradation.
  • Apply protection and redundancy principles.
  • Analyse alarms, performance indicators, and fault records.
  • Develop troubleshooting and capacity improvement plans.

Course Outline

Day 1

Transmission Network Architecture and Fundamentals

  • Role of transmission networks in mobile, fixed, and enterprise telecommunications.
  • Network topologies: point-to-point, ring, mesh, and hub-and-spoke.
  • Traffic aggregation, transport capacity, and network hierarchy.
  • Transmission media: optical fibre, microwave radio, and copper.
  • Synchronisation, latency, jitter, and availability requirements.
  • Network resilience, redundancy, and service-level objectives.
  • Practical Exercise: Develop a transmission network topology for a group of telecom sites, considering traffic demand, availability, and redundancy.
Day 2

Fibre-Optic Transmission Engineering

  • Fibre types, optical components, and transmission characteristics.
  • Optical transmitters, receivers, amplifiers, and multiplexing fundamentals.
  • Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM).
  • Optical power budgets, attenuation, dispersion, and connector losses.
  • Optical transport platforms and high-capacity backbone design.
  • Fibre testing using optical time-domain reflectometers (OTDR) and optical power meters.
  • Practical Exercise: Assess a fibre link using sample optical measurements, calculate its power budget, and identify potential causes of excessive loss.
Day 3

Microwave Transmission and Link Planning

  • Microwave transmission architecture and deployment scenarios.
  • Frequency bands, channel bandwidth, modulation, and adaptive modulation.
  • Line-of-sight requirements, path profiles, and Fresnel zone clearance.
  • Link budget calculations, fade margin, and propagation losses.
  • Antenna alignment, interference, and frequency coordination.
  • Availability assessment and protection configurations for microwave links.
  • Practical Exercise: Develop a preliminary microwave link plan using site coordinates, frequency, antenna parameters, and availability requirements.
Day 4

Network Capacity, Protection, and Performance Optimisation

  • Traffic forecasting and transmission capacity planning.
  • Capacity allocation, aggregation, and bandwidth utilisation.
  • Protection mechanisms, including 1+1 protection and ring-based recovery.
  • Monitoring latency, jitter, packet loss, optical power, and link utilisation.
  • Identifying congestion, bottlenecks, and performance degradation.
  • Network expansion planning and resilience assessment.
  • Practical Exercise: Analyse sample network performance data, identify capacity constraints, and recommend an optimisation and redundancy plan.
Day 5

Fault Diagnosis, Maintenance, and Network Reliability

  • Common transmission faults affecting fibre, microwave, and transport equipment.
  • Alarm interpretation, fault isolation, and root cause analysis.
  • Troubleshooting using optical measurements, link statistics, and equipment logs.
  • Preventive and corrective maintenance procedures.
  • Change management, configuration documentation, and service restoration.
  • Reliability indicators, incident reporting, and continuous improvement.
  • Practical Exercise: Investigate a simulated transmission outage using alarm records and performance data, determine the likely root cause, and prepare a restoration and prevention plan.

Upcoming Dates

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Doha · 27 Sept – 1 Oct 2027 · Classroom

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