Day 1 (08 Feb)
Course Overview, Key business drivers - [of NGN], NGN Network Elements – An Overview, Telecom Network Elements – An Overview, IP Transport/ MPLS, IMS Network Architecture
Day 2 (09 Feb)
ITU Recommendations on IMS, Cost Standards and their Application, Top Down and Bottom Up Models and Benchmarking, Weighted Average Cost of Capital – Theory and practice, Data Sourcing, Building and testing a model
Day 3 (10 Feb)
Visit to training labs with different NGN Models, Field visit
Day 4 (11 Feb)
Actual cost models for Next Generation Networks, Limitations of Network Cost Modeling, working group exercise.
Day 5 (12 Feb)
Price Regulation and Costing, Cost modelling in practice, Modelling in NGN environment