IP broadcast fundamentals

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.

What will you learn

IP broadcast training course details

Anyone working in broadcast.

TCP/IP foundation for engineers

3 days

What is IP? What is TV? Pixels, frames, colour,
digital modulation, digital video broadcasting.
SDTV, HDTV, 4K. IPTV architectures,
Contribution, distribution, delivery. IPTV
standards.
Hands on Base IP connectivity, VLC.

IP, TCP, UDP, RTP. IPv6. HTTP. Bandwidth
requirements.
Hands on IPTV bandwidth
calculations.

What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation,
sampling, quantisation, encoding, compressing.
MPEG, bit rates, resolution. I, B, P frames, GOP.
MPEG 2, MPEG 4, H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1.

Hands on Analysing MPEG frames.

Quality vs. bandwidth. Bandwidth, delay, latency,
jitter, signalling. Routers.
Hands on Analysing
jitter and other performance issues.

IP DSCP field, queuing strategies; FIFO, WFQ,
custom, priority, RED. Differentiated services,
Diffserv. 802.1Q. Traffic shaping. QoE.
Hands on
best effort versus prioritisation.

Reliable, unreliable, connection oriented,
connectionless. Broadcasts, multicasts and
unicasts. TCP flow control, TCP and
performance.
Hands on TCP window sizes.

RTP, ports, mixers, translators, RTCP, SMPTE,
FEC.
Hands on RTP analysis with Wireshark.

Multicasting compared to unicasting and
broadcasting, when to use and when not to use
multicasting. IGMP, PIM-SM, SSM. MLD.
Hands on Analysing multicast streams.

HTTP, HTTPS, Chunked HTTP. Adaptive
streaming. HTML5. DASH vs HLS.
Hands on
Analysing HTTP streams.

Firewalls, TLS, DRM, watermarking. Encryption.
Geolocation. VPNs.

Content providers, Service providers, delivery
networks, home networks. Caching, Service
discovery. RTSP. SAP, SDP. DHCP, DNS, NTP