Course Objectives:
After attending this training participants will be able to:
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- Describe the international communication, submarine cable, operator’s participation mechanism in a traditional carrier consortium
- Describe the Network architecture of Submarine Cable, End Terminals and different types of Interfaces
- Describe product Life Cycle
- Prepare the business case for a project and by reverse engineering of the model which in turn will help to adjust the product costing and revenue streams
- Understand the regional and global traffic trends and the player’s role in submarine cable segment.
Course Overview:
The course has been designed to help bridge the knowledge gaps that may exist in telecom professionals working on telecom systems and interfaces like SDH, STM-x, Gigabit Ethernet, OTN/OTU etc. and non-telecom professional like financial experts, product costing and product development professionals working in related industry. It will also be beneficial for marketing professionals who wish to understand both the technical and commercial aspects of the submarine cable and its products along with traffic and costing trends globally and regionally.
Key Benefits:
Participants will comprehensively learn the international requirements, development and operation of the submarine cables along with interface details to develop the products in data and voice for marketing. They will also have a good grasp the traffic and costing trends regionally and globally.
Who Should Attend?
Telecom engineers, strategic planners, costing professionals, product development experts, financial experts etc.
Course Outlines:
- International Telecom Network Requirements
- Network Architecture of SMC (Submarine Cable)
- Optical Fiber Communication System
- Submarine Cable Endeavors
- Concept of MIU and TCC
- Business Case for Submarine Cable
- Tariff selection and global market
- Global and Regional Traffic Trends for telecom services
- Bandwidth Market, Players and competition Trends
- Data and Voice Products for SMC
- Overview of SMC products
- Telecom Product development life cycle
- IPLC and IP Transit Product/Service :
- Building a Business Case for a SMC project
- Operation and Maintenance for IPLC and IP Transit Services
- Bandwidth Market, Players and competition Trends
- Pricing Models
- Leasing Approaches
- Product QoS
- Service Level Agreements
- Case Studies