• Engineer addressing schemes for IP network prefix configurations
• Add resilience to MAC/IP mappings for reliable redundancy switching
• Select the best routing and switching strategy for server and delivery networks
• Analyze protocols used to carry multimedia and troubleshoot services problems
• Appreciate how multicast routing protocols function
• Specify requirements for firewall transit of video services
• Compare how DiffServ, DSCP, RSVP, WFQ, MPLS and 802.1P/Q can provide quality of service
• Select the most appropriate quality of service option

Delivery Options:

We have a number of public scheduled course dates, please see the bottom of this page.

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Prerequisites:
This training course is aimed at experienced systems engineers, integrators, developers and designers who already have a basic understanding of IP and need to build upon this to better appreciate how reliable distribution and QoS networks can be engineered.

Prerequisite courses:
Hands On TCP/IP and Internet Protocols
Understanding IP and Datanetworking
ICND: Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices

Follow up courses:
IPTV: Advanced Internet Protocol Services for TV Distribution and Switching
Understanding MultiService Access and SIP
Understanding MultiService Access and H.248
Gigabit Ethernet for Telecommunications Service Networks
Multi-Protocol Label Switching in 21st Century Telecommunications Networks
Transport of Next-Generation Data Services over SDH

IPTV: Internet Protocol Services for TV Distribution and Switching includes the following modules:

Internet Protocol Suite Delivery of Multimedia Services

• Structure of Internet Protocol Suite
• Applications and their service needs
• Functions of TCP and UDP
• IP Datagram Services
• Layer 2 Services
• Hands-on Exercise 1: Configuring a Protocol Analyzer and Capturing Traffic

Layer 2 Addressing

• Layer 2 MAC
• Point tot Point Layer 2 services
• LAN and Broadcast Media Access Control
• 802 standard addressing
• Hands-on Exercise 2: Identifying MAC addresses
• Group and multicast addresses at layer 2
• Local addressing
• Bridging and switching at layer 2
• Hands-on Exercise 3: Experimenting with Bridges and Switches

Layer 3 Addressing

• Mapping layer 2 addresses to layer 3 with ARP
• Constructing and interrogating ARP Tables
• Hands-on Exercise 4: Observing ARP in operation
• Requirements to route a packet
• Selecting Address prefix and address classes
• Dividing address space into networks and sub-networks
• Case Study: Deploying Subnets

Routing

• Distributed dynamic routing
• Static alternate routing
• Routing logic
• Reading IP Routing Tables
• Hands-on Exercise 5: Reading routing tables in PCs and Routers
• Selecting metrics
• Popular Routing Protocols and their problems
• RIP
• IGRP
• RIPv2
• EIGRP
• OSPF
• Building least cost path database
• Real time switching advantages
• BGP4
• Routing Survival Kit: What You Need to Know to Make it Work

Multicasting

• Deploying Multicasting for network delivery of video
• Multicast routing requirements
• Multicast routing approaches
• Multicast extensions to OSPF
• Protocol Independent Multicast
• Selecting Mode of operation: Dense or Sparse
• IGMP
• Protocol exchanges to build tree
• Protocol exchanges to prune tree
• Potential failures and fixes

Management of Devices With SNMP

• SNMP conceptual model
• Reliable management over datagram networks
• Manager and Agent relationships
• Management Information Bases
• ASN.1
• Hands-on Exercise 6: Observing SNMP Operation
• Structure of Management Information
• Get, GetNext and Set
• Response and Trap
• Access to tables and scalar objects
• Walking the MIB
• Hands-on Exercise 7: Extracting Eables using SNMPWALK
• Manipulating MIB variables
• SNMPv1 Community names
• SNMPv2 and v3

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