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Pilates Reformer Instructor Training Program Modules: Reformer I, The Pilates Reformer is an extraordinarily flexible piece of exercise equipment allowing resistance and support for exercises involving every part of the body. Our program gives you a thorough understanding of how to use the Reformer to develop core and extremity strength, stability, flexibility, coordination and balance.

H.323 TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on course covering IP telephony with H.323. The course starts with a brief review of knowledge students should already possess including RTP and RTCP. The main focus is on H.323 protocols though, progressing from what H.323 is through signalling, call processing and architectures, moving onto more advanced issues including security, multimedia, conferencing, and interoperability. Hands on practicals follow each major theory session. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how H.323 works. * Analyse H.323 packets. * Deploy H.323 IP telephony solutions. * Integrate H.323 with other telephony solutions. H.323 TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical staff working with H.323 * Prerequisites: Voice Over IP * Duration 2 days H.323 TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * VoIP review Brief review of VoIP, IP, telephones and voice. RTP, RTCP, mixers and translators. * What is H.323? The framework, Why H.323, history, H.323 standards and the ITU, H.323 versions 1,2,3,4, and 5, Annexes and Appendices, capabilities, services, How H.323 works, a basic call. * H.323 protocol stack The overall framework, Audio codecs (H.7xx), Video codecs (H.26x), T.120 data conferencing. * H.323 Architecture Endpoints: Terminals, MCUs, gateways. Gatekeepers, border and peer elements, design issues, signalling with and without gatekeepers. * H.225 Packet format, ASN.1, Information elements, Call setup, Call control. * Gatekeepers Gatekeeper features, admissions, address translation, bandwidth management, call routing, zones, administrative domains, gatekeeper discovery, call establishment, fast connect. RAS packet formats, RAS signalling. Alternate gatekeepers. * H.245 Purpose, call control channel, relationship with H.225, message format, tunnelling. * H.323 Supplementary services Conferencing: point to point, multipoint, hybrid, broadcast, H.332. H.450.x. Call transfer, diversion, hold and waiting. Remote device control (H.282, H.283). Capability exchange, Video. * Security H.235. Authentication, privacy, transport layer level security. * Interoperability Gateways, Inter working with PSTN, SIP and H323. H.246. * Annexes and Appendices An overview.

SMPTE 2022 TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION SMPTE 2022 is the standard for IP video transport in the broadcast industry. This course covers the seven section of the standard in detail. Particular attention is given to FEC and seamless protection switching areas of the standard. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Use Wireshark to analyse. SMPTE 2022 streams. * Explain the role of FEC in SMPTE 2022. * Explain how SMPTE 2022 provides resilience. SMPTE 2022 TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with TV distribution. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers * Duration 1 day SMPTE 2022 TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction What is SMPTE 2022, SMPTE 2022 parts. SDI over IP. Contribution and distribution versus delivery. * The SMPTE 2022 protocol stack SMPTE 2022-2 (mapping of MPEG TS into IP) and SMPTE 2022-6 mapping uncompressed video into IP. IP: Best effort, connectionless, DF flag, routers, Diffserv, RSVP. IPv6. UDP: Unreliable, connectionless, broadcasts, multicasts and unicasts. RTP RTP, ports, payloads types, sequence numbers, timestamps. RTP header extensions. RTCP. MPEG2-TS: Elementary streams, transport over IP. * FEC Forward Error Correction. SMPTE 2022-1, SMPTE 2022-5. Logical rows and columns. 1D and 2D parity. FEC header format. FEC configuration and choosing dimensions. FEC traffic shaping. Overheads and delays. * Seamless protection switching IP failover. SMPTE 2022-7: Sending two matching streams over different paths. Stream synchronization. The HBRMT header. Calculating the packet to switch over. * Summary Summary of the 7 sections of the SMPTE 2022 standard. Clock recovery.

NTP AND PTP TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course looks at timing and synchronization as provided by NTP and PTP. Hands on sessions primarily involve using Wireshark to analyse the protocols. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Recognise the importance of timing and synchronisation. * Explain how NTP works. * Explain how PTP works. NTP AND PTP TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone using NTP or PTP but particularly relevant for those in the broadcast industry. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers * Duration 1 day NTP AND PTP TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction Clock drift. Timing and synchronization. Importance in computing. Importance in broadcasting. * NTP NTP versions, v0 to v4. Architecture. The intersection algorithm. Accuracy. Clock strata, Stratum 0, 1, 2 and 3. Protocol modes. Hands on NTP configuration * More NTP NTP packet header. Timestamps. Variables in the header. Clock synchronization algorithm. SNTP. The Windows Time service. Hands on Wireshark and NTP analysis. * PTP PTP v2, IEEE 1588. Architecture. Accuracy. Synchronization with PTP. Offset and delay. Hands on Analysing PTP packet flows. * More PTP Ordinary clocks, boundary clocks, masters and grandmasters. PTP specific switch types. Hardware time stamping. SMPTE ST2059-2. PTP packet header. PTP domains. Best master clock algorithm. Hands on More Wireshark and PTP.

HTTP STREAMING TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course looks at the delivery of video streams using HTTP adaptive streaming. Both MPEG DASH and HLS are investigated. Hands on sessions primarily involve using Wireshark to analyse streams. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Use Wireshark to analyse and troubleshoot HTTP video streams. * Explain HTTP adaptive streaming works. * Evaluate and compare MPEG DASH and HLS. * Use tools to create HTTP adaptive streams. HTTP STREAMING TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working in the broadcast industry. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers * Duration 2 days HTTP STREAMING TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is HTTP streaming? The old way. 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. * HTTP 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.

Reformer 3 Advanced Exercises & Programming Prerequisite: Reformer 2 Reformer 3 is the pinnacle of the Reformer work and includes advanced and super advanced exercises to challenge clients to achieve their best.

Reformer II Intermediate Exercises • Prerequisites: Reformer I • Reformer II includes intermediate exercises and modifications designed for group and individual instruction.

LTE ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides a comprehensive tour of the LTE architecture along with services provided and the protocols used. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the overall architecture of LTE. * Explain the information flows through LTE. * Describe the LTE security. * Describe LTE mobility management. * Recognise the next steps for LTE. LTE ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with LTE. * Prerequisites: Mobile communications demystified * Duration 3 days LTE ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction History, LTE key features. The 4G ITU process. The LTE 3GPP specifications. Specifications. * System Architecture LTE hardware architecture. UE architecture and capabilities. E-UTRAN and eNB. EPC, MME functions, SGW, PGW and PCRF. System interfaces and protocol stacks. Example information flows. Dedicated and default bearers. EMM, ECM, RRC state diagrams. * Radio transmission and reception OFDMA, SC-FDMA, MIMO antennas. Air interface protocol stack. Logical, transport and physical channels. Frame and slot structure, the resource grid. Resource element mapping of the physical channels and signals. Cell acquisition, data transmission and random access. MAC, RLC, PDCP protocols. LTE spectrum allocation. * Power-on procedures Network and cell selection. RRC connection establishment. Attach procedure, including IP address allocation and default bearer activation. LTE detach procedure. * Security in LTE networks LTE security features, identity confidentiality, ciphering and integrity protection. Architecture of network access security in LTE. Secure key hierarchy. Authentication and key agreement procedure. Security mode command procedure. Network domain security architecture. Security associations using IKE and IPSec. * Mobility management RRC_IDLE, RRC_CONNECTED. Cell reselection, tracking area updates. Measurement reporting. X2 and S1 based handovers. Interoperation with UMTS, GSM and non-3GPP technologies such as cdma2000. * QoS, policy control and charging QoS in LTE, EPS bearers, service data flows and packet flows. The architecture and signalling procedures for policy and charging control. Data transport using GPRS, differentiated services and MPLS. Offline and online charging in LTE. * Delivery of voice and text messages over LTE Difficulties and solutions for Voice over LTE. Architecture and call setup procedures for circuit switched fallback. Architecture, protocols and call setup procedures in IP multimedia subsystem. * Enhancements in release 9 LTE location services. Multimedia broadcast / multicast service and MBSFN. Cell selection, commercial mobile alert service. * LTE Advanced and release 10 Impact of carrier aggregation on LTE air interface. Enhanced MIMO processing on uplink and downlink. Relaying. Release 11 and beyond. * OAM and self organising networks Operation, administration, maintenance and provisioning for LTE. Self-configuration of base station parameters. Fractional frequency re-use, inter-cell interference co-ordination. Self-optimisation of base station procedures. Self-healing to detect and recover from faults.

CONCISE CISCO SWITCHES COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on course covering the product specifics of Cisco switches. Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting are all covered in a practical oriented way. VLANs often take up a large part of the course. The course covers all interfaces but concentrates on using the command line interface. Delegates are, however, free to use the web based interface in all exercises. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Install Cisco switches. * Use the command line interface and the web based interface to manage Cisco switches. * Configure and troubleshoot Cisco switches. * Perform software upgrades and maintain configurations using TFTP. CONCISE CISCO SWITCHES COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with Cisco switches. Particularly aimed at engineers and technicians supporting Cisco switches. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 2 days CONCISE CISCO SWITCHES COURSE CONTENT * Ethernet review Single segment Ethernet, CSMA/CD, Broadcast domains, collision domains. Hubs, Extending the LAN. Hands on Hub based Ethernet. * Cisco switches What are switches, frame forwarding and filtering, the forwarding database. Hands on Switched based Ethernet. * Configuring Cisco switches Accessing the switch, installing the switch, The CLI, connecting PCs using the switch. Hands on Configuring Cisco switches. * The command line interface User and privilege modes, online help, show, basic troubleshooting. The configuration editor, Global, major and sub commands, enable, secret and other passwords. Hands on Simple troubleshooting using the CLI. * Port configuration Speed, duplex, security, trunking. Hands on Port trunking. * Spanning Tree Protocol Spanning Tree, Loops, effect, root bridges, bridge port states, STP reconfiguration. RSTP and variants. Hands on STP. * VLANS What are VLANs, configuring VLANs, access ports and trunks, 802.1Q, inter VLAN routing. Hands on Access ports, trunks, layer 3 switching. * Housekeeping Configuration management, software management, password recovery. Hands on TFTP. * Managing interconnection devices SNMP, RMON, RMON II. * Troubleshooting LEDs, CDP, logging, Layer 1, layer 2, layer 3. Hands on Fixing things.

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.