How to become an End-to-End 5G Architect
Hold the whole system — radio to core to data network — and be the person who can explain where a problem actually lives.
Who takes this route
Engineers and technical leads who have to reason across domains rather than inside one.
The route
3 courses, in this order — 22 modules, about 11.8 hours of video, hands-on labs throughout, and a graded exam at the end of each.
Place 5G in the real world and draw the whole system from memory — architecture, SBA, radio, and the power-on-to-first-packet journey. No prior telecom knowledge assumed.
7 modules~3.3h videoCertificate exam → TELCOMA 5G Foundation (week 4)Decode the NR air interface, run a handover in your head, and dimension a real 5G RAN — from the resource grid and massive MIMO to CU/DU/RU splits, Open RAN, and KPIs.
7 modules~3.4h videoCertificate exam → TELCOMA 5G RAN Specialist (week 8)Before this: 5G Foundation, or equivalent working knowledge of 5G architecture
Trace every message of the procedures that define 5G, then engineer QoS, slicing, edge, security and voice end-to-end — and hold an informed conversation about 5G-Advanced and 6G.
8 modules~5.1h videoCapstone → TELCOMA Certified 5G Professional (week 12)Before this: 5G Foundation, or equivalent; 5G RAN Specialist recommended
What you can do at the end
Draw the full 5G system from memory and defend it; follow a fault from the air interface through the core to the data network; judge an architecture decision on its trade-offs rather than its vendor.
What you earn
3 verifiable TELCOMA certificates — one for each course, issued only after you pass its graded exam. Each carries a number and a QR code to a public verification page an employer can open without an account.
- TELCOMA 5G Foundation
- TELCOMA 5G RAN Specialist
- TELCOMA 5G Core & E2E Specialist
Start where the route starts
The first lesson of 5G Foundation plays with no account and no card. The whole first module is free once you sign in.
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