Course Description

This 6-module course provides learners with critical working knowledge of how SMPTE ST 2110 can be used to create professional media production or delivery systems which operate entirely within IP networks. This SMPTE virtual course will give learners both the knowledge and skills needed to help your facility take full advantage of ST 2110 and media over IP, which is an essential skill for any engineer or technologist working in today’s media and entertainment industry.
Description: This virtual course begins with an overview of how media is managed within studio networks, followed by a discussion of why and how the ST 2110 standards suite was created, and highlights the advances from ST 2022-based IP media systems. The next portion of the course covers managing uncompressed video in live TV production, segmentation of a video image into sample row data for transport in RTP packets, and application of ST 2110 for bandwidth estimation. Audio and ancillary data are then addressed, including detailed explanations of interoperability with AES67 along with packetization and synchronization of captions and other metadata. The important topics of PTP timing and SDP media descriptions are the next topics covered. The course concludes with a look at how ST 2110 senders and receivers are required to control packet flows to ensure compatibility with IP network devices.

Course Objective

Upon successful completion of this course, learners are able to:
- Understand areas of application for both SMPTE ST 2110 and ST 2022.
- Learn about video encapsulation and how to use SMPTE ST 2110-20 to calculate network signal bandwidths.
- Gain deeper knowledge of audio over IP, and particularly how SMPTE ST 2110-30 works with AES67 and other audio types.
- Become familiar with the ways that SMPTE ST 2110-40 governs ancillary data identification and packaging.
- Build a greater understanding of both identification using IETF SDP and synchronization using IEEE 1588 PTP as specified in various SMPTE ST 2110 standards.
- Learn about traffic shaping and packet delivery timing, especially as indicated by SMPTE ST 2110-21.

Course Outline

- Introduction to virtual course.
- IP’s Role in Video Production Today and in the Future.
- IP Video/Audio and Related Content Technologies.
- Compression for IP Networks.
- Container and File Formats.
- Studio Infrastructure and Cabling.
- Transport Impairments and Metrics.
- Review and Final Exam (optional for learners).