Career route
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.
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The route
- 15G Foundation
- 25G RAN Specialist
- 35G Core & E2E Specialist
- Courses
- 3
- Video
- ~11.8h
- Certificates
- 3
Who takes this route
Engineers and technical leads who have to reason across domains rather than inside one.
What you'll be able to do
- 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
The route, in order
3 courses · 22 modules · about 11.8 hours of video, hands-on labs throughout, and a graded exam at the end of each.
1TELCOMA 5G Foundation5G Foundation5G system architectureNSA vs SAService-based architectureCore network functionsBeginner34 lessons~3.3h7 modules
2TELCOMA 5G RAN Specialist5G RAN SpecialistNR numerology & frame structureBandwidth partsSSB & random accessMassive MIMO & beamformingIntermediate31 lessons~3.4h7 modulesBefore this: 5G Foundation, or equivalent working knowledge of 5G architecture
3TELCOMA 5G Core & E2E Specialist5G Core & E2E SpecialistCore call flowsPFCP & the UPF5QI, PCF & chargingNetwork slicingAdvanced38 lessons~5.1h8 modulesBefore this: 5G Foundation, or equivalent; 5G RAN Specialist recommended
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 page an employer can open without an account.
TELCOMA 5G Foundation
TELCOMA 5G RAN Specialist
TELCOMA 5G Core & E2E Specialist
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