Hands-on VoIP with SIP + Live Demos
Course Duration  
5-day instructor-led training with hands-on labs, 0900-1700

Course Objectives
At the end of this VoIP with SIP course the student will be able to;
  • describe the operation of SIP
  • describe the benefit of SIP
  • compare SIP to the PSTN and H.323
  • plan a VoIP rollout
  • describe the shortcomings of SIP
  • interpret SIP protocol packets

Course Overview
 
This course provides a detailed description of the Session Initiation Protocol to implement Voice over the Internet Protcol. The standards are covered and hands-on labs using Cisco, Linksys and Asterisk VoIP equipment to reinforce the material.

Key Benefits
 
  • What SIP is and the market opportunities
  • What can be delivered using SIP technology
  • What are the SIP deployment business models
  • What are the SIP service bundles – voice, data, video

Who Should Attend?
  • Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs)
  • VoIP systems manufacturers, designers and integrators
  • VoIP dealers, distributors, and channel specialists
  • Telecommunication carriers
  • Executives: CEO, CXO, CMO, CTO, CIOs
  • Enterprise network managers, operations and planning staff
  • Government Regulators
  • Researchers, Analysts, Investors and others allied to the field

Course Outline
Day 1

Television architecture and evolution
- RF/Microwave medium
- Analog TV service
- Digital TV service
- Interactive TV service

Traditional Digital TV Architecture
- Broadcast medium constraints
- Acquisition
- Repackaging / Grooming
- Broadcasting
- Security and Interactive services in a broadcast medium

IPTV Services
- How to compete in a saturated market?
- Unique value proposition
- Case Studies


Day 2

Overall IPTV architecture
- Architecture diagram
- Interfaces and standards

Administrative and Organizational support
- Service availability, change control
- Support
- Content licensing
- Organizational security

Underlying network
- Multicast vs. Unicast delivery
- Multicast service models – ASM, SSM
- IGMP, IGMP snooping
- PIM-SM
- MPLS transport of IPTV traffic
- Service Monitoring
- QoE and how it relates to QoS
- Network-based security measures
- Industry trends


Day 3

Live TV acquisition/reception subsystem
- A word on the Satellite subsystem
- Satellite receivers/decoders
- Other possible sources
- Example products, trends

Live TV Transcoding and streaming
- CODECs – MPEG2, H.264, others
- Stream encryption & manipulation
- Example products, trends

Non-linear services subsystem
- Content library
- Front-end streaming servers
- Clustering and distributed VoD
- Live TV recording
- Security measures
- Example solutions, trends


Day 4

Conditional Access / DRM subsystem
- Principles of operation
- Example solutions

STBs
- Desired features
- Market overview

Middleware
- Desired features
- Market overview

User experience
- How little things matter
- Customization and the reseller model
- UI features

Wrap-up