Overview
Fixed digital microwave radio links offer telecommunication providers cheap high-capacity communication links that are quick to install in almost any environment. They are found in a wide variety of telecommunication network types and they are equally suitable for remote areas and urban or campus locations. If such a link is to be successful, reliability is critical. Reliability comes from careful and effective planning in the initial stages of link design.
This course provides the student with the theoretical and practical skills to plan fixed links effectively. The course covers technical and regulatory issues, using the UK as an example for the latter. The course guides students through spectrum usage and allocation, radio and modulation techniques typically used on digital microwave links, and the antennas and radio equipment found at radio sites. This foundation then leads into a description of the planning process itself including link profiling, path loss calculations and link budgeting.
This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.
Audience
This course is designed for engineers working for fixed and mobile telecommunication network operators who are involved in the specification, planning and maintenance of digital microwave radio links.
Prerequisites
A good knowledge of radio principles (as supplied by Course RP2601 - Radio Principles) or a background in radio communications.
Course Outline
- Spectrum management
- Licensing
- Digital transmission techniques
- Digital radio design
- Microwave antennas and feeders
- Path profiling
- Path clearance
- Power budgets
- Path losses
- Fading
- Diversity systems
Practical exercises
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