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OTT TV for engineers course description This course covers OTT TV by primarily looking at the delivery of video streams using HTTP adaptive streaming. Both MPEG DASH and HLS are investigated. Hands on sessions involve using Wireshark to analyse streams as well as crafting segmented content. What will you learn Explain what OTT TV is, and how it works. Describe the OTT TV architecture. Use Wireshark to analyse and troubleshoot OTT video streams. Explain how HTTP adaptive streaming works. Evaluate and compare MPEG DASH and HLS. Use tools to create OTT TV adaptive streams. OTT TV for engineers course details Who will benefit: Anyone working in the broadcast industry. Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers. Duration 2 days OTT TV for engineers course contents What is OTT TV? Brodeo providers vs ISPs. Progressive downloads versus streaming. Why not UDP and RTP for delivery? Adaptive bit rate streaming. Standards. Hands on: Base network setup. Using WireShark for HTTP streams. HTTP protocol stack IP, TCP, IPv6. HTTP. HTTP 1.0, HTTP 1.1, HTTP 2.0, HTTP header fields. HTML 5. Hands on: Analysing HTTP. Adaptive bitrate streaming principles Chunks, fragments, segments. Manifest files. Encoding, resolution, bitrates. Addressing, relative and absolute URLs, redirection. When does the client switch streams? Switch points. Hands on: Walk through of client behaviours on a stream. OTT TV streaming architecture Server components, distribution components, client software. CDN, caching, multiple servers. Hands on: Analysing CDN and Internet delivery. TCP and HTTP streaming interactions TCP ACK, TCP connections, unicast only. TCP flow control, TCP and performance. Hands on: TCP window sizes. MPEG DASH Stakeholders, DASH architecture and model, codec agnostic, XML, Media Presentation Description, Media Presentation, segment formats. Hands on: MPEG DASH analysis. HTTP Live Streaming and others Stakeholders. Media segments, media playlists, master playlists. Adobe HTTP dynamic streaming, Microsoft smooth streaming. Hands on: Analysing HLS. Tools mp4dash, mp4fragment, libdash. Apple developer tools for HLS. Hands on: Creating segmented content. Security HTTPS, encryption, content protection. Hands on: Encryption analysis. Summary Choosing a streaming method. Impact of live versus VoD. Web sockets.

SolarWinds NPM training course description A hands on course providing a solid foundation on network management using SolarWinds. The course specifically focusses on SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor. The course starts with configuring agents and device discovery, onto exploiting SNMP with SolarWinds and then Alerts, reports and customisation of menus, views and maps. What will you learn Discover devices using Solarwinds. Use Solarwinds. Poll and monitor devices using Solarwinds. Create Alarms and reports. Diagnose faults using Solarwinds. SolarWinds NPM training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Solarwinds. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days SolarWinds NPM training course content Getting started with SolarWinds What is SolarWinds, Products, ICMP, WMI, SNMP. Installing SolarWinds. Hands on Connecting to SolarWinds, configuring users and groups, using SolarWinds. Device discovery with SolarWinds Manual discovery, automatic discovery, controlling IP discovery, polling, thresholds. Hands on Adding ICMP only, SNMP and WMI nodes. dependencies, groups. Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. MIBs, SNMPv3, obtaining MIB information. Universal device poller. Hands on MIB browser, MIB walking, syslog. Message center. Using SolarWinds The home page, Views, changing views, adding views. Hands on Views and menu customisation. Server monitoring. Alerts Filters, acknowledgements, notes. Basic alert configuration, Advanced alert configuration. Hands on Configuring alerts. Reports Creating reports, on demand reports, scheduled reports, customising reports, adding reports to views. Standard reports. Hands on Performance reports. Graphs. Maps Orion Network Atlas, the background, adding objects, connect now, applying to views. Hands on Customising a map. Administration Backups, the database.

Advanced Ethernet switching training course description An advanced hands on switching course for those already familiar with the basics such as STP and VLANs. The course starts with advanced diagnostics and network monitoring moving onto switch protocols. A large part of the second day is spent implementing QoS and security such as 802.1x. What will you learn Troubleshoot switching. Explain how a number of switch protocols work, including: UDLD LLDP LACP DTP VTP/MVRP Design redundancy into switched networks. Implement QoS on switches. Harden switches. Advanced Ethernet switching training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Ethernet switches. Prerequisites: None Duration 2 days Advanced Ethernet switching training course contents Switches Switch review, troubleshooting, diagnostics, L2 traceroute, UDLD, message logging, Wireshark, port mirroring, Hands on: Troubleshooting. Network management SNMP, SNMPv3, RMON, Netflow, Sflow. System logging. Hands on: Managing switches with SNMP. Syslogd. Switches and automatic configuration Auto-MDIX, LLDP, CDP, Link aggregation, LACP, Link state tracking, VLANS and tags, DTP. Hands on: Discovery, dynamic configuration. RSTP 802.1w, new port roles and states, new BPDUs, rapid convergence, topology changes, compatibility issues. L3 redundancy, VRRP, GLBP. Design issues. Hands on: RSTP, VRRP. VLANS: Registration protocols Why VTP? VTP modes, how VTP works, VTP pruning. GVRP, MVRP. Hands on: Dynamic VLANs STP variations and alternatives 802.1s (multiple spanning tree), regions, rings, L2MP, TRILL. Hands on: 802.1s Multicasting What is multicasting, Static configuration, IGMP snooping, CGMP, MVR. IPv6 MLD snooping. Hands on: Multicast through switches QoS Storm control, DSCP, 802.1Q, 802.1p, mapping, classification, policy, Ingress queues, Egress queues. Dropping frames, limiting bandwidth. Hands on: Voice through switches. More VLANS Native VLANs, Voice VLANs Security Static MAC addresses, AAA, RADIUS, Port based authentication, 802.1x, Guest VLANs, L2 attacks, SSH, HTTPS. Hands on: Hardening switches. Miscellaneous NTP, managing the MAC address table, managing system resources, SDN

DevOps training course description This course is an introduction to DevOps. The course emphasizes communication, collaboration , integration, and automation to improve the workflow between developers and IT operations professionals. Improved workflows lead to more opportunities to design software and services in a more agile fashion. This course is a basis for discovering the most important DevOps concepts and to understand the principles and methods behind this. The course will leave you with the inspiration to be the advocate of change. What will you learn Explain DevOps principles. Describe the relationship between Agile , Lean and IT Service Management ( ITSM). Describe methods for automation and technology factors. Describe considerations when changing. Describe challenges, risks and critical success factors. DevOps training course details Who will benefit: IT development, IT operations and IT service management. Prerequisites: Introduction to data communications & networking. Duration 2 days DevOps training course contents Why DevOps? Introduction DevOps Goals DevOps Added value of DevOps Proven Results DevOps for businesses DevOps principles (The Three Ways) DevOps and other frameworks DevOps and Agile DevOps and Lean DevOps and IT Service Management DevOps culture Characteristics of a DevOps culture Organizational Considerations DevOps DevOps stakeholders DevOps roles DevOps teams DevOps organizational structures DevOps methods Continuous Integration Continuous delivery Continuous deployment Value stream mapping Kanban Theory of Constraints Improvement Kata Deming's quality circle ITSM processes DevOps and Automation Methods for DevOps automation Longevity and tools categories DevOps applications Transitioning to a DevOps culture. Implementation Challenges, risks and critical success factors Measuring DevOps successes

Supporting Microsoft SharePoint course description A concise hands on course enabling delegates to manage and administer a SharePoint site. What will you learn Perform initial farm configuration. Use stsadm commands. Manage content. Secure SharePoint. Customise SharePoint search. Monitor and performance tune SharePoint. Supporting Microsoft SharePoint server course details Who will benefit: Anyone working with Microsoft SQL server Prerequisites: SharePoint Administrators. Duration 2 days Supporting Microsoft SharePoint course contents SharePoint Introduction A SharePoint installation. Initial farm configuration. Creating a site collection. Administering SharePoint Stsadm commands, automation with PowerShell. Managing content Lists, libraries, items and documents Security SecureStore, Users and groups, roles and role assignments. Permission levels. SharePoint search Configure search, refine search. SharePoint performance Diagnostic logging, logging levels, Health anaylzer, performance bottlenecks.

VSAT training course description This 2 day training course examines what VSAT is, its usages and users. It then looks at the hardware required for VSAT. What will you learn Explain how VSAT is used Describe the hardware required for VSAT operation. VSAT training course details Who will benefit: Anyone working with VSAT. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days VSAT training course contents Introduction History of PMR VSAT Introduction A Brief History Satellite Services Satellite Communications Satellite Footprint Radio Frequency Bands ITU Definitions VSAT Users What is a VSAT? VSATs - Usage VSATs - Users VSAT Hardware Typical System Hardware VSAT ODU and IDU VSAT Station Equipment Diplexer and Feed Horn Typical Waveguide Element Polarisation VSAT Hub Antenna Pointing Outdoor Unit Outdoor (continued) VSAT Network Earth Stations Indoor Unit VSAT Network Earth Stations Indoor Unit Element Hub Station Hub Sub-station Hub Options Hub Options (2) Hub Options (3) Temporary Mount

Essential SDN training course description Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become one of the industries most talked technologies. This training course cuts through the hype and looks at the technology, architecture and products available for SDN along with looking at the impact it may have on your network. What will you learn Explain how SDN works. Describe the architecture of SDN. Explain the relationship between SDN and OpenFlow. Recognise the impact SDN will have on existing networks. Essential SDN training course details Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to know more about SDN. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days Essential SDN training course contents Introduction What is SDN? What is OpenFlow? SDN benefits. The SDN stack and architecture. SDN architecture SDN applications, SDN switches, SDN controllers, Network Operating Systems. Control plane, data plane. Control to Data Plane Interface (CDPI), Northbound interfaces. SDN components, control and data plane abstractions. Network Operating Systems Finding the topology, Global view, control program, configuration based on views, graph algorithm. OpenFlow Just one part of SDN. Open Networking Foundation, OpenFlow ports, Flow tables, OpenFlow Channels. The OpenFlow protocol, OpenFlow header, OpenFlow operations. OpenFlow versus OpFlex. SDN and open source OpenDaylight, OpenVSwitch, Open Networking Forum, Open Network Operating System. OpenStack Neutron. SDN implications Separation of control and data plane, NOS running on servers, Emphasis on edge complexity, core simplicity, OpenvSwitch, Incremental migration, importance of software. SDN vs NVF.

Intro to containers training course description This course looks at the technologies of containers and microservices. The course starts with a look at what containers are, moving onto working with containers. Networking containers and container orchestration is then studied. The course finishes with monitoring containers with Prometheus and other systems. Hands on sessions are used to reinforce the theory rather than teach specific products, although Docker and Kubernetes are used. What will you learn Use containers. Build containers. Orchestrate containers. Evaluate container technologies. Intro to containers training course details Who will benefit: Those wishing to work with containers. Prerequisites: Introduction to virtualization. Duration 2 days Intro to containers training course contents What are containers? Virtualization, VMs, What are containers? What are microservices? Machine containers, application containers. Benefits. Container runtime tools Docker, LXC, Windows containers. Architecture, components. Hands on Installing Docker client and server. Working with containers Docker workflow, Docker images, Docker containers, Dockerfile, Building, running, storing images. Creating containers. Starting, stopping and controlling containers. Public repositories, private registries. Hands on Exploring containers. Microservices What are microservices? Modular architecture, IPC. Hands on Persistence and containers. Networking containers Linking, no networking, host, bridge. The container Network Interface. Hands on Container networking Container orchestration engines Docker swarm: Nodes, services, tasks. Apache Mesos: Mesos master, agents, frameworks. Kubernetes: Kubectl, master node, worker nodes. Openstack: Architecture, containers in OpenStack. Amazon ECS: Architecture, how it works. Hands on Setup and access a Kubernetes cluster. Managing containers Monitoring, logging, collecting metrics, cluster monitoring tools: Heapster. Hands on Using Prometheus with Kubernetes.

Firewalls training course description A technical hands on training course covering firewall technologies. This focuses on the whys and hows of firewall technology rather than looking at manufacturer specific issues. What will you learn Design secure firewall protected networks. Test firewalls. Evaluate firewalls Configure firewalls Firewalls training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff wanting to learn about Filrewalls including: Technical network staff. Technical security staff. Prerequisites: IP security foundation for engineers Duration 2 days Firewalls training course contents Firewall introduction Security review, what is a firewall? What do firewalls do? Firewall benefits, concepts. Hands on Configuring the network to be used in later labs, launching various attacks on a target. Firewall types Packet filtering, SPI, Proxy, Personal. Software firewalls, hardware firewalls, blade based firewalls, personal firewalls, which firewall should you use? Firewall products. Hands on Configuring a simple firewall. Packet filtering firewalls Things to filter in the IP header, stateless vs. stateful filtering. ACLs. Advantages of packet filtering. Hands on Configuring packet filtering firewalls. Stateful packet filtering Stateful algorithms, packet-by-packet inspection, application content filtering, tracks, special handling (fragments, IP options), sessions with TCP and UDP. Firewall hacking detection: SYN attacks, SSL, SSH interception. Hands on Stateful packet inspection firewalls. Proxy firewalls Circuit level, application level, SOCKS. Proxy firewall advantages and disadvantages. Hands on Proxy firewalls. Personal firewalls The role of personal firewalls, Windows XP, Zonealarm. Hands on Configuring a personal firewall. Firewall architectures Home based, small office, enterprise, service provider, what is a DMZ? DMZ architectures, bastion hosts, multi DMZ. Virtual firewalls, transparent firewalls. Dual firewall design, high availability, load balancing, VRRP. Hands on Resilient firewall architecture. Securing communications VPNs, IPsec. Firewall configuration of VPNs, integration of dedicated VPN devices and firewalls. Hands on IPSec VPN configuration. Testing firewalls Configuration checklist, testing procedure, monitoring firewalls, logging, syslog. Hands on Testing firewalls.

SIP in IMS training course description The IP Multimedia Core Network Subsystem (IMS) is defined by 3GPP as a new mobile infrastructure. This advanced course looks at the use of SIP in the IMS. What will you learn Describe the role of SIP in the IMS. Explain how SIP works in the IMS Describe the SIP architecture in the IMS. Explain how SIP and SDP are used in basic IMS procedures. SIP in IMS training course details Who will benefit: Technical telecommunications staff. Prerequisites: SIP for engineers. Duration 2 days SIP in IMS training course contents Introduction SIP review, SIP elements, Simple SIP call flow, What is IMS? Why IMS? Why SIP in the IMS? SIP and IMS relationship. Standards 3GPP, IETF, 3GPPr5, 3GPPr6, 3GPP SIP extensions. SIP and IMS IMS architecture, SIP interfaces. Server functions Registration, home and away, location and directory services, stateful and stateless servers. SIP servers P-CSCF, I-CSCF, S-CSCF, PSTN gateways SIP registration in the IMS SIP REGISTER, IMS identities, registration process, P-CSCF discovery, S-CSCF assignment, IMS subscriber and IMS registrar signalling flow. IMS routing in the registration process. Re and De-registration. SIP sessions in the IMS SIP INVITE, Establishing IMS SIP sessions, User at home network, user roaming, IMS offer answer architecture, SIP preconditions, QoS, reserving resources, IMS bearer network interactions, IMS subscriber and IMS service signalling flow. Typical call flows. SIP services in the IMS IMS specifications, IMS service procedures, call scenarios, call services. IMS multimedia related procedures. IMS presence, IMS messaging, IMS conferencing, IMS PoC. SIP-T SIP and the PSTN, URIs and ENUM, NAPTR, SRV, ISUP numbers and URI mapping, IAM and INVITE, SIP to PSTN/ISUP mapping, PSTN/ISUP to SIP mapping, PSTN to PSTN over SIP. MIME media types for ISUP, DTMF transmission, CLIP and CLIR in SIP, ring tone, split gateways SIP-I ISO standards, translation versus tunnelling. IMS SIP extensions Security (RFC 3310, 3329), Resource reservation (RFC 3312), Media authorisation (RFC 3313), SigComp (RFC 3320), P Headers (RFC 3325, 3455), Mobile registration (RFC 3327, 3608), Reg event (RFC 3680), Preconditions (RFC 4032) Security IMS security architecture, identities, HTTP digest, TLS. Affect of security on SIP media sessions.