CelPlan Tech­nolo­gies, Inc (CelPlan) and The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, have signed an Aca­d­e­m­ic Pro­gramme Course­ware Li­cense Agree­ment by which CelPlan will pro­vide train­ing ma­te­ri­als on ra­dio com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Ra­dio-Fre­quen­cy (RF)-based sys­tems, stan­dards and tech­nolo­gies to The UWI.

Dr Kim I Mal­lalieu, leader of the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Sys­tems Group, De­part­ment of Elec­tri­cal and Com­put­er En­gi­neer­ing (DECE), said: "This is a tremen­dous op­por­tu­ni­ty for our stu­dents to de­sign and analyse new and emerg­ing wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tion net­works us­ing in­dus­try-grade soft­ware; and at the same time, to ex­plore mar­ket mod­el­ling, re­al­is­tic busi­ness cas­es and a va­ri­ety of de­sign tasks that are not typ­i­cal­ly cov­ered in the­o­ret­i­cal cours­es."

To ac­cel­er­ate this in­te­gra­tion, CelPlan will con­duct a 4G Tech­nolo­gies and Net­work De­sign Boot Camp from De­cem­ber 2�6 at UWI, St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus. This five-day course will pro­vide CX­Os, man­agers, en­gi­neers, and tech­ni­cal staff with the prac­ti­cal knowl­edge and ex­per­tise need­ed to de­ploy and op­ti­mise re­al­is­tic 4G net­works. Stu­dents will not on­ly be pre­sent­ed to the tech­nol­o­gy it­self, but al­so to the added com­plex­i­ty of de­sign­ing a da­ta-cen­tric net­work.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, CelPlan has al­ready pro­vid­ed UWI li­cense-free use of CelPlan­nerTM, their flag-ship, in­dus­try-grade soft­ware for plan­ning, de­sign­ing and op­ti­miza­tion of wire­less telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tems, in­clud­ing 4G sys­tems.

The train­ing ma­te­ri­als, to­geth­er with soft­ware, will be in­te­grat­ed in­to a num­ber of aca­d­e­m­ic cours­es and stu­dent projects of­fered by the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Sys­tems Group in the (DECE). These, in turn, will pro­vide stu­dents in-de­mand, in­dus­try-ready, hands-on skills and ex­pe­ri­ence in the rapid­ly ad­vanc­ing field of wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tions en­gi­neer­ing.

Leon­hard Ko­rowa­jczuk, CEO/CTO of CelPlan, and au­thor of sev­er­al texts in­clud­ing LTE, WiMAX and WLAN Net­work De­sign, Op­ti­mi­sa­tion and Per­for­mance Analy­sis, (Wi­ley 2011) will be the in­struc­tor for this boot camp. Some of the top­ics that will be cov­ered are: Wire­less Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Fun­da­men­tals, 4G Tech­nolo­gies (WLAN, WiMAX, LTE) In-depth Analy­sis, and De­sign and Op­ti­miza­tion of 4G Net­works. Par­tic­i­pants can chal­lenge the CelPlan 4G Tech­nolo­gies and Net­work De­sign Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Ex­am at the end of the train­ing.

All in­dus­try per­son­nel, acad­e­mia and in­ter­est­ed per­sons in T&T and the wider re­gion are wel­comed to reg­is­ter for the course.

For more in­for­ma­tion con­tact Dr Kim Mal­lal­lieu at 662-2002 ext 83191, Fax: (868) 662-4414, Mob: (868) 682-2403, or via e-mail Kim.Mal­lalieu@sta.uwi.edu.