Course 609: Advanced IPTV Training

The Advanced IPTV course provides a technical detail on IPTV and covers IPTV implementation and operations. This course provides a detailed understanding of the motivation behind IPTV architecture. It also discusses IPTV design principles and how IPTV achieves QoS. This course concludes with end-to-end and operations scenarios to help attendees understand the big picture.

After successfully completing the course the attendees will:

• Explain advanced IPTV architecture
• Explore the architecture and components of IPTV
• Sketch IPTV networks, protocols and interfaces
• Explain IPTV architecture approaches to provide multiple services
• Discuss the detailed operations of IPTV
• Describe the IPTV design philosophy and identify the key concepts
• Understand the issues with IPTV implementation and operations
• Understand IPTV management and O&M challenges
• Discuss deployment scenarios for IPTV

Review of IPTV

• Traditional TV services such as broadcast programming, VOD, and DVR.
• Live TV (multicasting)
• Stored video (Video on Demand VOD)
• IPTV based converged services
• The Effect of the All-IP Network TrendThe Effect of the All-IP Network Trend
• IPTV Limitations
• Microsoft TV IPTV Edition
• IPTV Architecture
• IPTV Building Blocks
  • Super Head-End (SHE)
  • Video Hub-Office (VHO)
  • Core Network
  • Edge Network
  • Access Network
  • Home NetworkTwo-way digital broadcast signal
  • Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD)
  • Integrated Receiver Transcoder (IRT)
  • Real-Time Encoder (RTE)
  • Server Farms
  • Core Mux
  • Network Adaptor
  • IGMP Network Element
  • IGMP Snoopers
  • IGMP Router
• IPTV Protocols
• Encapsulation of MPEG-4 TS on IP
• IP Multicast
• IGMP version 3
• RTSP

IPTV framework functional capabilities

• Transport Functions
• Service/Control functions
• Management Functions
• Resource Control Functions
• Video Content Functions
• Middleware Functions

Functional Capabilities and Key Work Areas for IPTV

• General Framework Architecture for IPTV Networks
• IPTV Functional Description
• IPTV Services
• Set Top Box or home gateway functionality and associated interfaces
• Video and Audio Codec functions and selection
• Middleware capabilities such as Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and other user interfaces
• Billing / accounting interfaces and protocols
• Program Control functions
• Operational and Maintenance capabilities
• Security/ authentication and Digital Rights Management (DRM) aspects
• Quality of Service / Experience capabilities and performance
• IP/UDP/RTP/MPEG2TS/codec wrapper
• IP/UDP/RTP/MPEG-4
• Consideration of OCAP/MHP/GEM for an application framework
• Ad Insertion
• IPTV endpoint management
• Customized channel lineup
• Viewership data management

IPTV Network Architecture and Protocols

• Protocols to Transport IPTV Data Packets
• IP/UDP/RTP/RTCP/MPEG
• Compression
• MPEG-2
• MPEG-4 Part 10/H.264/AVC
• Windows Media 9/ VC-1
• Codec Choice
• Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
• Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
• Access Node Protocol
• Adaptation functions
• PPPoA-to-PPPoE interworking
• IPoA-to-IPoE interworking
• Access Network Architecture
• VLAN per subscriber
• VLAN per service
• Layer 2 Control
• Multicast Replication
• Core Network Design Concepts
• PIM SSM
• PIM SM
• P2MP LSPs
• Network Responsiveness
• Processing of the remote control request
• IGMP control processing (Set Top Box (STB), Residential Gateway, Network)
• Data plane protocol stack processing
• DSL interleaving delay, decryption, and FEC
• STB jitter buffer delay
• Buffer for video encoding
• MPEG decoder delay for re-synchronizing with the new program
• Core Network Design Concepts
• Distribute multicast traffic throughout the IP backbone
• PIM SSM and PIM SM
• P2MP LSPs
• MPLS multicast distribution concept
  

IPTV Control/Signaling Functions

• Program Control Function
• STB Control/Customer Channel Line up
• Service Information
• Ad insertion
• Testing IPTV Channel Zapping
  

IPTV Management Functions

• Operational and Maintenance Capabilities
• Security/Authentication and DRM aspects
• IPTV Endpoint Management
• Viewership Data Management
• Billing/Accounting Interfaces/Protocols
• Consideration of OCAP/MHP/GEM Application Framework

Middleware Capabilities

• Electronic Program Guide (EPG)
• User Interfaces
• Video and Audio Codec Selection
• Standard API for DRM System Interface
• Standard API for IPTV Control & Signaling Functions

Home Gateway and Set Top Box (STB) Functions

• STB/HG Interfaces
• IP/UDP/RTP/MPEG2TS/MPEG-4/Codec Wrapper

Quality of Service/Experience Capabilities

• Performance Requirements
• Bandwidth and Network Resource Requirements
• Transport Functions in Access and Core Networks

IPTV OAM (Operation, Administration & Maintenance)

• Interactive Fulfillment and Billing
• Presence and Availability Information
• Security Management
• Subscriber Profiles and Preference Data
• Flexible Charging
• Service Creation and Management
• Creating and Managing IPTV Networks
• IPTV Planning and Engineering
• IPTV Physical and Logical Inventory
• Network Design and Provisioning
• Network Monitoring and Maintenance
• Managing the Service Offerings
• Service Planning and Development
• Service Provisioning
• Creating and managing the network
• Service Quality Management
• Usage Rating
• CRM
• Managing customer relationships

Meeting End User Expectations for IPTV

• Network Aspects
• Bandwidth Dimensioning
• Reliability
• Quality of Service
• Network Responsiveness

IPTV Service Assurance

• Managing service quality in IPTV
• Picture Quality
• Zap Time
• Control Command Response Time
  
• Audio-to-Video Synchronization Delay
• Authentication Errors
• Service Modeling
• Service Monitoring
• Service Impact and Prioritization
• Customer Reporting
• Quality of Service
• DiffServ based IP QoS at the Routing Gateway and the BNG
• IPTV over MPLS (Internet Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching)
• QoS models
• Ethernet QoS in the Access/Aggregation Network

IPTV Implementation and Development Case Studies

• Obstacles to successful seployment
• Services Possible with a Local IPTV Network
• Comparison of IPTV Services Providers' Offerings
• Comparison to Traditional Broadcast TV
• Quad-play services
• Bunlding of wireline, wireless, Internet and video in one service package
• Quality of Experience (QoE) Requirements and mechanisms on QoE dimensions, measurement and requirements for different applications
• Broadcast TV, Video on Demand, Premium Video
• Voice
• Best Effort Internet Access
• Online Gaming
• Multicast policy management kept central
• Delivering Converged Quad-play Services with IPTV and IMS
• TELECOM OPERATORS PLANS AND EXPERIENCES
• Telco Operators Plans and Development Experiences
• Cost Impact
• Subscriber Growth
• Impact on the Network Equipment Market
• Telco Operators Plans and Development Experiences
• Verizon
• SBC/AT&T
• Belgacom
• BT
• PCCW
• FastWeb
• BT
• France Telecom
• Swisscom
• Sasktel
• Major Vendors of IPTV Networks
• Set-Top-Box
• Set-Top-Box Browser
• Middleware
• Conditional Access (CA)
• Digital Rights Management (DRM)
• OSS/BSS
• VoD Streaming Servers
• VoD/PVR Software
• Home Gateway
• Home Networking