BridgeTech Academy Trainers' Course Focuses On MPEG Streams In Multicast

Bridge Technologies continues its 2011 programme of training courses with another Train the Trainers course at its Oslo headquarters, between February 15 - 16. These courses complement the BridgeTech Academy's operator training courses by giving customers and distribution partners in-depth expertise for training their own staff in-house.
Led by BridgeTech Academy head Randouth Tillery, the course will equip operators with a full understanding of the key factors necessary to master monitoring and service quality control issues.
The February course content will place extra emphasis on monitoring MPEG-2 transport streams in a multicast environment, together with in-depth exploration of new features and functions of version 4.7 of the VideoBRIDGE software.
Developed in response to the demand from digital media operators, the BridgeTech Academy provides technical personnel with the multidisciplinary operational expertise necessary for a complete understanding of the entire digital TV delivery chain and the VideoBRIDGE advanced monitoring environment. Training courses are provided at Bridge Technologies' Oslo headquarters using a complete on-site transmission chain created for training and testing, or by arrangement at the operator's facility.
The courses are aimed at technical support engineers with some knowledge of IP and with either a broadcast or telco background. Course content will include:

• Fundamentals
• The transport stream and IP protocol stack
• IPTV protocol mappings
• Relevant standards, unicast vs multicast and IGMP
• Digital TV measurement techniques
• General considerations and standards
• What to measure and where to measure
• Packet drops and packet jitter
• Common network problems and common video problems
• Case studies, inter-arrival time, and jitter robustness
• Stuffed vs unstuffed streams
• The MediaWindow
• Product training
• Probes, extractor, generator and VBC

Further detail on course location and schedules is available from Bridge Technologies at: [email protected]
The VideoBRIDGE system is the first true headend-to-set-top-box monitoring solution available in the industry and includes a full range of IP probes for analysis at any point in the chain from satellite to set-top box. The award-winning VideoBRIDGE series of probes offers an innovative approach to monitoring and analysis of converging services employing stream-based IP packets.
Compatible with all major stream-based industrial standards such as MPEG-2, H.264/AVC and DVB/ATSC - ETSI TR 101 290, the VideoBRIDGE series offers a complete end-to-end system for the continuous quality assurance of a network. With full support of the innovative, patented MediaWindow, the VideoBRIDGE series is at the forefront of digital TV measurement, monitoring and analysis technologies.
Further information on Bridge Technologies is available at: www.bridgetech.tv
(KMcA)