The training is designed to equip participants with an understanding of

• the key business drivers of NGN, Telecom Network Elements, Network Architectures in NGN environment
• how to collect, analyse, enter data and select suitable model approach.
• the types of cost model, their advantages and disadvantages and working and use of  each type of model.
• the various cost standards and their areas of useful application in telecommunications/ICTs.
• the necessary enquiries, choice and judgments on costing of NGN project planning, deployment of Class-4 NGN (IP-TAX) and Class-5 NGN – IMS in field units of  BSNL (India), learn about the  actual cost model adopted for NGN deployment in BSNL(India).
• the relationship between price regulation and costing.
• Project Planning of NGN deployed in field units.
• NGN Project Planning in an NGN Converged environment.

​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