Introduction to Rich Communication Services (RCS)

Evolution of Messaging from SMS/MMS to RCS as we evolve from various Generations of Wireless Networks

Created by: Pardip Singh
Wireless Technology Instructor at Udemy

What Will I 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 high-level 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 see some of the Obstacles and Challenges to deploy RCS.
• Looking at the complexity of RCS implementation, we shall cover very basic scenarios here and leave more complex scenarios for my Advanced course on RCS.

Requirements

• If you have general information about how the Wireless Networks have evolved over time and in specific how the messaging has evolved over time, you will be interested in this course.
• You may be working at Management level or at Technical role relating to RCS implementation or maintaining the network nodes in operator network, you should have general understanding of what is involved in implementing RCS in the network. This course will help you get that high level understanding.
• In this course, we shall not go through the network architecture of various Generations of Wireless Networks but it is good to have that knowledge as background information.
• One Suggestion: Since there is so much technical material that is being discussed in each slide in this course, it is suggested to do this course on a big screen of computer or TV. If you see the slides on your cell phone, you may not appreciate it that much.

Target audience

• Anyone working for Wireless Operators or Handset Vendors and dealing with Messaging Aspects will be interested in this course.
• A wireless operator who is deploying new IMS network and thinking of deploying various messaging services over IP would like to get this basic understanding of RCS to all their Technical and Management workforce.
• If you are dealing with communication with Chatbots (may be powered by AI), you would like to know how the contents got displayed on your phone. This course will give you that overview.