TENTATIVE AGENDA

Blue Group

Amber Group

DAY 1

DAY 1

Boardroom 2nd Floor Meeting Room

10:30 – Start

Tour of HQ, IP Studio, Post-Production Suite and Head-end

10:30 – Start

Tour of HQ, IP Studio, Post-Production Suite and Head-end

11:30 – Deniz´s Famous Lunch

11:30 – Deniz´s Famous Lunch

12:00 – Multicast IP  
Martin Crawley – Head of Academy (3 hours)
12:00 – OTT 
Jon Egil Eriksen Head of Pre-Sales (1 hours)
· Multicast IP basics · ABR delivery chain (Encoder/transcoders, packagers, origin, CDN, active vs passive testing)
 · Network requirements · Delivery mechanisms (DASH; HLS, CMAF, etc)
 · IGMP · DRM (Widevine, Fairplay, etc)
· How to analyse with the VB330 · Alignment
 · Visualizing Packet Drops, Jitter and Bit Rates over Time · How to analyse with the VB330
 · Interpreting the Media Window
 · Monitoring Window Software Installation – 
Phil Thomson – Senior Engineer (2 hour)
 · Correlation of two or more Probes · Linux installation
 · Bridgetech’s MicroETR Tool  · Linux tools to use for troubleshooting
 · Service, PID & Bit-Rate Monitoring  · Disk tools
· 2022-7 · Cockpit
· SRT · AWS

16:00 – Q&A, Pizza and drinks @ Bridge Bar

16:00 – Q&A, Pizza and drinks @ Bridge Bar

DAY 2

DAY 2

09:30 – Start

         Software Installation (2 hour) Phil Thomson – Senior Engineer

09:30 – Start

            Multicast IP – Martin Crawley – Head of Academy (3 hours) 

·· Linux installation ·  Multicast IP basics
· Linux tools to use for troubleshooting  · Network requirements
 · Disk tools  · IGMP
· Cockpit · How to analyse with the VB330
· AWS  · Visualizing Packet Drops, Jitter and Bit Rates over Time
 · Interpreting the Media Window
OTT – Jon Egil Eriksen – Head of Pre-Sales (1 hours)  · Monitoring Window
· ABR delivery chain (Encoder/transcoders, packagers, origin, CDN, active vs passive testing)  · Correlation of two or more Probes
· Delivery mechanisms (DASH; HLS, CMAF, etc)  · Bridgetech’s MicroETR Tool
· DRM (Widevine, Fairplay, etc)  · Service, PID & Bit-Rate Monitoring
· Alignment · 2022-7
· How to analyse with the VB330 · SRT

11:30 – Deniz´s Famous Lunch

11:30 – Deniz´s Famous Lunch

13:30 – Content Analysis
Martin Crawley – Head of Academy (2 hours)
13:30 – Uncompressed Video
Damain Hatwell – Head of technical Sales/Support (2 hours)
· Video – Thumbnails, MOS; VMAF, freeze, etc · 2022-6, 2110 explanation
· Audio – Silence, loudness, EBU R128 · Network requirements (Timing, PTP, etc)
· Ad insertion – SCTE 35 vs 104 · How to use the VB440 in the studio
Event types + explanation · Signal Generator
· How to analyse with the VB330 · Widglets
15:00 – Alarms and how to use them
Martin Crawley – Head of Academy (1 hour)
15:00 – VBC Overview
Jon Egil  – Head of Pre-Sales (1 hour)
· How to interpret alarms · Difference between Probe and VBC alarms
· Ethernet Thresholds · Using RDP to investigate errors
· PID Thresholds · RDW
· Service Threshold · Reporting
· Scheduling Alarm Masks · Stream correlation
· SNMP

16:00 – Q&A, Pizza and drinks @ Bridge Bar

16:00 – Q&A, Pizza and drinks @ Bridge Bar

DAY 3

DAY 3

09:30 – Start

VBC Overview
Jon Egil Eriksen – Head of Pre-Sales (1 hour)

09:30 – Start

Alarms and how to use them
Martin Crawley – Head of Academy (2 hours)

· Difference between Probe and VBC alarms · How to interpret alarms
· Using RDP to investigate errors · Ethernet Thresholds
· RDW · PID Thresholds
· Reporting · Service Threshold
· Stream correlation · Scheduling Alarm Masks
· SNMP
Uncompressed Video
Damain Hatwell Head of technical Sales and Support (2 hours)
Content Analysis
Martin Crawley – Head of Academy (2 hours)
· 2022-6, 2110 explanation · Video – Thumbnails, MOS; VMAF, freeze, etc
· Network requirements (Timing, PTP, etc) · Audio –  Silence, loudness, EBU R128
· How to use the VB440 in the studio ·  Ad insertion, SCTE 35 vs 104
· Signal Generator Event types + explanation
· Widglets · How to analyse with the VB330

11:30 – Deniz´s Famous Lunch

11:30 – Deniz´s Famous Lunch

13:30 – Ad-hoc sessions, Open Q&A in the bodega/boardroom

13:30 Ad-hoc sessions, Open Q&A in the bodega/boardroom

E.N.D E.N.D