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IPTV Fundamentals
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| What is IPTV?
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| What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of IPTV
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| Industry Status
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| Where is the market at?
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| What are the future trends?
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| How ready are we for IPTV?)
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Services
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| IPTV Service Providers (IPTVSP)
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| Managing the TV connections (downloading & streaming)
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| Broadcast (Multicast vs. Unicast)
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| What is an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast vs. unicast address?
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| How do multicast IP addresses map to Ethernet addresses?
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| Switched Digital Video
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| Channel Selection
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| Electronic Programming Guides (EPG)
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| Interactive Programming Guides (IPG)
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| Analog Television Adapters (ATVA)
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| Internet Protocol TV (IPTV)
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| Video on Demand (VOD)
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| Pay Per View (PPV)
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| Multimedia Computers
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| Mobile Phone TV
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Technology (How IPTV Systems Work)
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| Analog vs. Digital TV
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| Standard Definition TV (SDTV) vs. High Definition TV (HDTV)
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| Cable TV
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| Satellite TV
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| Video Systems (NTSC, PAL, SECAM, MPEG, DOCSIS)
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| Digital Video Compression - MPEG-2, 4, VC 1
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| Audio Compression - ATSC Dolby Digital, MPEG1 & 2
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| IP Multicast
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| Ethernet LSPs (Pseudowires)
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| Transmission Fundamentals for DTV systems
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| How do MPEG packets get put into Ethernet?
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| Transport Multiplexing for DTV systems
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| Bandwidth requirements
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| Broadband access delivery methods
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| Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
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| Passive Optical Networking (PON)
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| Fiber-to-the-x (FTTx - x can be home, premise, curb, node, pedestal...)
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| Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC)
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| Satellite
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| Broadband Wireless (WiFi / WiMax)
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| 3G mobile
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| IGMPv2/v3 protocol
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| What is it and how is it used and why is it important to IPTV
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| IGMP Snooping, Proxy and Routing -How will the industry define them and what are their
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| applications?
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| Managing IPTV systems
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| Service Provisioning
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| Accounting & Billing
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Network Architecture
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| Network Integration/Migration
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| DWDM Transport
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| Ethernet Switching
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| Packet Processing/Signaling/Protocols
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| Routers
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| Servers
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| Video Servers, Proxy Servers, Remote Access Dial-in User server (RADIUS), Registrar
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| Servers (RAS), Provisioning Servers, Billing Record Servers, Policy Server, Domain Name
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| Server (DNS), Web Server, Media Gateways, Signaling Gateways
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| Quality of Service
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| Security
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| Set Top Box/Middleware
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| Costs
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| Network Architectures (ex. Alcatel FTTN IPTV architecture)
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IPTV Challenges
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| Content licensing and distribution rights
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| Data transfer rate capability
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| Media player compatibility
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| Industry standards
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Future direction of IPTV
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| Addressable Advertising
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| Anywhere Television Service
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| Global Television Channels
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| Television on Demand (ToD)
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| Personal Media Channels (PMC)
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| Future compression technologies
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| Future bandwidth requirements |
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