Introduction to Rich Communication Services (RCS)

Introduction to Rich Communication Services (RCS), available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.33, with 23 lectures, 6 quizzes, based on 3 reviews, and has 10 subscribers.

You will learn about Understand how Legacy Messaging of SMS/MMS is evolving to RCS with many advanced features related to personal and Business Messaging. Know the RCS features and how standard bodies guide operators to deploy a network that will enable end subscribers and businesses use these functions. Understand High Level Network Architecture that Operators need to deploy to implement the features used by subscribers and Businesses To get a deeper understanding of how the Network functions interact, go over end to end call flows related to the main RCS features. Even though all operators have agreed and want to deploy RCS in their networks, but we shall go over some of the Obstacles and Challenges faced by operators. Looking at the complexity of RCS implementation, we shall cover very basic scenarios here and leave more complex scenarios for an Advanced course on RCS. This course is ideal for individuals who are All personals including Engineers, Technicians and Managers dealing with Legacy Messaging or introduction of RCS in the wireless Operators networks or those dealing with Subscriber handset vendors. or A wireless operator who is deploying new IMS network and thinking of deploying various services over IP would like to get this basic understanding of RCS to all their Technical and Management workforce. It is particularly useful for All personals including Engineers, Technicians and Managers dealing with Legacy Messaging or introduction of RCS in the wireless Operators networks or those dealing with Subscriber handset vendors. or A wireless operator who is deploying new IMS network and thinking of deploying various services over IP would like to get this basic understanding of RCS to all their Technical and Management workforce.

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Summary

Title: Introduction to Rich Communication Services (RCS)

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.33

Number of Lectures: 23

Number of Quizzes: 6

Number of Published Lectures: 23

Number of Published Quizzes: 6

Number of Curriculum Items: 29

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 29

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Understand how Legacy Messaging of SMS/MMS is evolving to RCS with many advanced features related to personal and Business Messaging.

Know the RCS features and how standard bodies guide operators to deploy a network that will enable end subscribers and businesses use these functions.

Understand High Level Network Architecture that Operators need to deploy to implement the features used by subscribers and Businesses

To get a deeper understanding of how the Network functions interact, go over end to end call flows related to the main RCS features.

Even though all operators have agreed and want to deploy RCS in their networks, but we shall go over some of the Obstacles and Challenges faced by operators.

Looking at the complexity of RCS implementation, we shall cover very basic scenarios here and leave more complex scenarios for an Advanced course on RCS.

Who Should Attend

All personals including Engineers, Technicians and Managers dealing with Legacy Messaging or introduction of RCS in the wireless Operators networks or those dealing with Subscriber handset vendors.

A wireless operator who is deploying new IMS network and thinking of deploying various services over IP would like to get this basic understanding of RCS to all their Technical and Management workforce.

Target Audiences

All personals including Engineers, Technicians and Managers dealing with Legacy Messaging or introduction of RCS in the wireless Operators networks or those dealing with Subscriber handset vendors.

A wireless operator who is deploying new IMS network and thinking of deploying various services over IP would like to get this basic understanding of RCS to all their Technical and Management workforce.

If your career and job have anything to do with Wireless Technology which have evolved from 1G to 5G, you will definitely be dealing with evolution of Messaging over different generation of Wireless Networks. As the subscriber’s communication desires evolved from Voice calls to Messaging, there came the need for building more features in Messaging. That is what we call as Rich Communication Services (RCS).   

This course is designed for beginners who would like to understand this topic of Messaging and Information Exchange with following agenda in different sections of this course.

Evolution from SMS for simple text Messaging to MMS for exchange of small images or files to RCS. 

RCS includes very Rich Features where the user can do 1 to 1 messaging session or make Group Chat (1 to N) sessions to exchange small or large text messages or exchanging small or big files of all types in these chat sessions along with getting Delivery and Read receipts.

RCS functions are further extended to cover the latest requirements for Businesses called RCS for Business Messaging (RBM).Related to RBM, you will see how various Businesses also called Brandsare using RCS technology to communicate with their current or potential customers.  That is where we are referring to communication with Chatbots which may be powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).  In this area we shall refer these chatbots as Applications and call this communication as A2P and P2A between Applications and Persons.

To understand RCS, we need to refer to the GSMA Guidelines laid out for Wireless Network Operators and Handset Providers so that RCS functions can be provided globally, and the subscriber can be in any part of the world but still be able to enjoy feature rich RCS functions.

This course will talk about the overall Network Architecture as defined by standard bodies and will explain the important functional elements that need to be built in the Operators’ Network and also in Handsets used by subscribers.

We shall also go over various Protocols and Interfaces in the network that are used for Control and Data payload to implement RCS functions.

The best way to understand the RCS technology is to see each function in terms of End-to-End Call Flows where we shall see all the control and payload starting from Originating Subscriber to the Destination Subscriber through various network elements using standard interfaces and protocols.

To implement RCS at Global level including all Network Operators and Handset Providers have its own Challenges and Obstacleswhich we shall go over in this course.

Looking at the complexity of defining and implementing RCS functions, we are offering this course as an “Introduction to RCS”where we shall try to clarify the RCS concepts and make you understand this technology giving the simplest scenarios at architecture and call flow level.  For more complex scenarios, I will add more “Advanced Course on RCS”.   

First one in the series that I have published is “RCS Chat Session A to Z” which delves into much more details  on Chat Sessions. 

And please stay tuned for my other upcoming courses on RCS.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction for my own qualification and experience that is relevant to RCS

Lecture 1: My and RCS Intro

Lecture 2: Learning Objectives for the course

Chapter 2: Standard Bodies and RCS Concepts

Lecture 1: GSMA Standards body

Lecture 2: RCS Concepts

Chapter 3: RCS Architecture

Lecture 1: RCS Network Architecture – High Level Description

Lecture 2: IMS High Level Architecture

Lecture 3: IMS Architecture Network Diagram

Lecture 4: Quick overview of SIP Protocol

Lecture 5: Overview of HTTP Protocol

Chapter 4: Application Servers Farm

Lecture 1: Configuration Server and how does it do its functions

Lecture 2: Cal Flows showing Configuration Server

Lecture 3: Presence Server

Lecture 4: Messaging Server

Chapter 5: End to End Call Flows

Lecture 1: 1 to 1 Chat Session setup

Lecture 2: 1 to N Chat Session Setup

Lecture 3: 1 to 1 File Transfer

Lecture 4: 1 to N File Transfer

Lecture 5: Introduction to RCS Business Messaging (RBM)

Lecture 6: Introduction to Chatbot Platform Architecture

Lecture 7: P2A Call Flows

Lecture 8: A2P Call Flows

Chapter 6: Challenges, Obstacles and Wrapup

Lecture 1: Challenges and Obstacles

Lecture 2: Conclusions and Wrap-up

Instructors

Pardip Singh
Wireless Technology Instructor at Udemy

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