Course Details
Overview
The Cisco ASR 5000 Comprehensive Four-Day Technical Training SGSN, GGSN, and ECS Version 12.2 instructor-led course offered by Learning Services provides detailed instruction on how to manage, monitor, configure, and administer the Cisco® ASR 5000 to function as a serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) support node (SGSN) or gateway GPRS support node (GGSN) in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS) network environment. The course also provides supervised, hands-on training pertaining to the configuration of the Cisco Enhanced Charging Service (ECS) on the ASR 5000.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should have a thorough understanding of the following aspects of the platform:
- Understanding and using the StarOS command line interface (CLI)
- Understanding contexts and context selection processes
- Performing initial system configuration, including administrative users, hardware redundancy, and remote management functions
- Performing basic configurations for GGSN services
- Performing basic configurations for 3G and 2G SGSN services
- Applying software upgrades, session and feature use licenses, and configuration files
- Configuring bulk statistics and systems/event logging
- Troubleshooting techniques for both hardware and software
- Understand what inline services are
- Understanding the ECS feature and its intended uses
- ECS feature capabilities
- ECS deployment examples
- ECS operations, services, and architecture
- ECS feature configuration
Outline
- Module 1: SGSN and GGSN Services Overview
- Module 2: ASR 5000 Hardware Overview
- Module 3: ASR 5000 Software Overview
- Module 4: Initial System Configuration
- Module 5: Understanding the StarOS Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Module 6: Configuring System and Management Parameters
- Module 7: Configuration Terminology
- Module 8: Configuring GGSN Services for IP and PDP Context Processing
- Module 9: Configuring SGSN Service for 3G Operation
- Module 10: Configuring SGSN Service for 2G Operation
- Module 11: ATM interfaces and Global Title Translation for SGSN Services
- Module 12: SGSN Operator Policies
- Module 13: Configuring the ASR 5000 for Bulk Statistics Collection
- Module 14: Traffic Shaping and Policing
- Module 15: Configuring Threshold Crossing Alarms
- Module 16: Inline Services Introduction
- Module 17: How Inline Services Work
- Module 18: Accounting
- Module 19: Redundancy Support
- Module 20: Inline Services Software Architecture
- Module 21: The Gx Interface
- Module 22: The Gy Interface
- Module 23: Inline Services Configuration Example
Lab Outline
- Lab 1: Command Line Interface Familiarization
- Lab 2: Configuring GGSN Services
- Lab 3: Configuring 3G SGSN Services
- Lab 4: Configuring Threshold Crossing Alarms
- Lab 5: Implementing ECS
Target Audience
This course is designed for participants from any of the following disciplines who are responsible for the planning, configuration, and management of the ASR 5000:
- Network engineering
- Network consulting
- Customer support
- Field engineering
- Channel partners, resellers
Pre-Requisites
Following are the prerequisites for this course.
- Participants must have a thorough understanding of IP routing, networking protocols, and a basic working knowledge of applicable UMTS network operation.