Perpetual Solutions launches MPEG-DASH training course

07 March 2013 - Communications technology training provider, Perpetual Solutions, has announced a new course as part of its Connected Home Academy Certification: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP using MPEG-DASH.

The three-day course will examine 'Over the Top' delivery of WebTV, demonstrating its difference from traditional broadcast TV and Multicast streamed IPTV.

Attendees will discover solutions to key engineering problems in building WebTV services and, using hands-on demonstration exercises, experience the impact of differing levels of delay variation and packet loss using internet simulators.

The latest MPEG standards provide enhanced mechanisms for encoding and delivery, with MPEG-DASH offering a new, standard way to build manifest files for adaptive bit rate delivery.

The design of new services depends upon understanding the new commercial and technical features it provides for insertion of targeted advertising, along with the ability to deliver video quality capable of adapting to a range of devices, networks and platforms.

Course Overview
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP using MPEG-DASH provides a comprehensive understanding of MPEG-DASH technology, comparing it with Apple HLS, Adobe HDS and Microsoft Smooth Streaming.

This course is intended for engineers, service designers, developers and systems engineers involved in the development of WebTV products and services.

Hands-on exercises configuring MPEG-DASH services, and comparing its performance with identical video delivered through other streaming technologies, will allow a sound understanding of the new technology.

Attendees will analyse the protocols used for delivery using WireShark, obtain the skills to use key analysis software used to troubleshoot application platforms, and the network technologies used within a range of new Adaptive WebTV systems.

Learn more about this course and view detailed course modules. Upcoming course dates are now open for booking:

• 3 – 5 April – London, UK

• 1 – 3 July – London, UK

• 22 – 24 July – Washington D.C., USA
  

_{About Connected Home Academy
The Connected Home Academy offers three professional certifications and over 35 individual courses to Broadcast, Telco and Connected Home professionals.
The Business Leaders series encompasses six short courses that are designed to give leadership a high level introduction to the technologies and insight into how these technologies can be monetized, and the shape of the current market.
The Technical Series offers training starting with technical overviews to deep level ‘hands-on’ engineering courses around classic managed IPTV, unmanaged OTT TV (Over-the-top TV), video encoding and head-end, content protection such as CAS and DRM, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), Access and Core network technologies, Home Area Networking (HAN), Voice over IP (VoIP), WiFi, Femto, and ZigBee. Many industry standards and technologies are covered within this range of training.
The Connected Home Academy is a Perpetual Solutions brand.}

_{About Perpetual Solutions
Perpetual Solutions is an established education provider with a specialist range of communications technology training.}

_{Our HQ is in London however our network of 450+ specialist instructors delivers training in over 60 countries.}

_{We achieve high standards and quality in everything we deliver, from customer service to post-delivery, with a multinational team that embraces diversity at its core.}

_{Our communications training catalogue includes courses on NGN core network architecture, access networks, IP & convergence including IPTV & SIP, wireless technologies, IT systems, software development and professional development and ‘soft’ skills.}

_{We deliver education programs across EMEA, US & Asia/Pac regions to customers such as Vodafone Group, BT, Cable & Wireless, and Orange.}

_{Clients include:
Broadcast: BBC, BSkyB, RiksTV, Arquiva, SIS Live
Telco: BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Etihad Etisalat, Vodafone Group
Vendors: Cisco, Conax, ALU, Ericsson, Amino, Thomson}

_{For press enquiries, please contact Melissa Polec at Perpetual Solutions:
E: melissa.polec@perpetual-solutions.com T: +44 207 620 0033
Perpetual Solutions, Tuition House, 27-37 St Georges Road, London SW19 4DS}

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