VIDEO CONFERENCING OVER IP COURSE DESCRIPTION
A current hot topic in recent years has been the provision of multimedia
services over IP networks - triple play. This course investigates the
characteristics of video transmission and then studies the impact on IP
networks.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
* Describe the issues of video and data convergence.
* Describe techniques, which can be used in IP to provide low uniform delay.
* Evaluate video technologies.
* Design data networks, which will support video..
VIDEO CONFERENCING OVER IP COURSE DETAILS
* Who will benefit:
Technical staff.
* Prerequisites:
TCP/IP fundamentals
Intro to data communications & networking
* Duration
3 days
VIDEO CONFERENCING OVER IP COURSE CONTENTS
* Review
Traditional video, digital video, video formats, MPEG, brief review of IP,
Uses of video: downloading, streaming, TV, CCTV, conferencing.
* Video over IP issues
Delivery methods: FTTH, ADSL, VDSL, 3G and others. Bandwidth, delay, jitter,
signalling. Digitising video, CODECS, packetising video, comparison of
techniques.
* IP performance and QOS
IP TOS field, queuing strategies; FIFO, WFQ, custom, priority, RED.
Differentiated services, diffserv.
* Video over IP protocol stack
RTP, RTCP, mixers and translators, RSVP. IPv6.
* Conferencing
Traditional solutions, Video conferencing over IP, point to point,
multipoint, architectures, bridges.
* IETF - Session Initiation Protocol
Comparison with H.323, SIP proxy, proxy server, redirect server. SDP.
* Multicasting
Multicasting compared to unicasting and broadcasting, when to use and when
not to use multicasting. IGMP, DVMRP, PIM.
* Security
Impact of firewalls and NAT, ISMA, DRM, DTCP.