Excursion to Telekom - Insights in Planning and Operating of Cellular Networks

At midsummer temperatures, the almost traditional excursion of the Communication Networks Institute to Telekom Technik in Dortmund took place on June 30, 2015. There, students of the master's lecture "Mobilfunknetze" (English translation: "Cellular Networks") and the bachelor's lecture "Betriebswirtschaftliche Grundlagen der IKT" (English translation: "Economic Basics of ICT") had the possibility to get exciting and practical insights into the network operation of Deutsche Telekom. From network planning through to successive testing and optimizing of the network quality by measuring vehicles, several stations within the company, at which respective experts presented their workspace, have been visited in small groups. This way, the students were able to monitor, how last white spots of the cellular network are systematically eliminated by complex planning methods. The highly interesting excursion was topped off by a collective snack, which allowed for deepening contacts to the practical working world.