IPTV training course description
A current hot topic in recent years has been the provision of multimedia services over IP networks aka triple or quadruple play. This course investigates the characteristics of video transmission and then studies the impact on IP networks.

Who will benefit?
Anyone working with IPTV

IPTV training course prerequisites
Intro to data communications & networking.
TCP/IP fundamentals.

IPTV training course objectives
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Describe the issues of video and data convergence.

• Describe techniques, which can be used in IP to provide low uniform delay.

• Evaluate IPTV technologies.

• Design data networks, which will support IPTV.

Duration: 3 days

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What is IPTV?
What is IP? What is TV? Pixels, frames, colour, Analogue TV, digital TV, digital modulation, digital video broadcasting, video players. SDTV, HDTV. Multiple Program Transport Streams. Hands on: Base IP connectivity, simple IPTV.

Video codecs
What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation, sampling, quantisation, encoding, compressing. MPEG, bit rates, resolution. Hands on: Working with codecs.

IPTV architectures
Centralised versus distributed. Building blocks: Content distribution, middleware, transport infrastructure, CPE. Headend, Media servers, satellite servers.

IPTV issues
Quality vs. bandwidth, Delivery methods: FTTH, ADSL, VDSL, 3G and others. Bandwidth, delay, latency, jitter, signalling. Hands on: Investigating issues of IPTV.

IPTV performance and QoS
IP TOS field, queuing strategies; FIFO, WFQ, custom, priority, RED. Differentiated services, diffserv.

IPTV protocol stack
RTP, RTCP, mixers and translators, RSVP. IPv6. Bandwidth requirements. Hands on: IPTV bandwidth calculations.

SIP and SDP
SIP, SIP proxy, proxy server, redirect server. SDP. Hands on: SDP analysis.

Streaming
Video on demand vs. video broadcasting, architectures, RTSP, WNSRP. Hands on: Video streaming, RTSP analysis.

Multicasting
Multicasting compared to unicasting and broadcasting, when to use and when not to use multicasting. IGMP, PIM-SM, SSM.

Set top boxes
Internet TV versus IPTV. PC versus set top box, signal sources, decoding, software, QoE, management, TV connection. Interactivity.

Security
Impact of firewalls and NAT, ISMA, DRM, watermarking. Privacy.