Total Video conferencing over IP for engineers

Description

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

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.