Career route
How to become a RAN Planning & Optimisation Engineer
Design the cell on paper, then answer for its KPIs once it is live — link budgets, dimensioning, counters and the parameter change that fixes them.
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The route
- 15G Foundation
- 25G RAN Specialist
- 35G RAN Planning & Design
- 45G RAN Optimisation & Performance
- Courses
- 4
- Video
- ~16.3h
- Certificates
- 4
Who takes this route
RF planning, optimisation and NOC engineers who own a radio design or the KPIs that come out of it.
What you'll be able to do
- Close a link budget to a cell radius and dimension the capacity behind it
- Plan PCIs, root sequences and neighbours
- Read an accessibility or retainability regression back to its cause and ship one parameter change with a baseline and a control
The route, in order
4 courses · 25 modules · about 16.3 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 RAN Planning & Design Specialist5G RAN Planning & DesignPropagation modelsShadow fading marginsLink budgets & cell radiusCapacity dimensioningIntermediate28 lessons~4.5h5 modulesBefore this: Recommended: 5G Foundation. 5G RAN Specialist helps throughout — this course plans the air interface that one explains.
4TELCOMA RAN Optimisation Specialist5G RAN Optimisation & PerformanceCounters & KPIsAccessibility analysisRetainability & radio link failureMobility robustnessIntermediate31 lessons~5.1h6 modulesBefore this: Recommended: 5G RAN Planning & Design — this course operates the cell that one designs, and inherits its reference case by reference rather than by copy. 5G RAN Specialist helps throughout.
What you earn
4 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 RAN Planning & Design Specialist
TELCOMA RAN Optimisation Specialist
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