Bridge Technologies has announced a series of training courses designed to help users of the award-winning VideoBRIDGE digital TV monitoring system get the maximum benefit from end-to-end fault tracking and performance analysis in the digital media delivery chain.

Developed in response to demand from digital media operators, the Bridge Technologies Academy will provide technical personnel with the multi-disciplinary operational expertise necessary for complete understanding of the entire digital TV delivery chain, and the VideoBRIDGE advanced monitoring environment.

Training courses will be scheduled and 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.

These courses will deliver that expertise, based on long experience of real-world commercial use of IP in broadcasting and interactive media delivery. Just as there has been a lack of end-to-end monitoring solutions for digital TV until recently, there is also a lack of training opportunities where engineers and maintenance staff can acquire both the overview and the detailed knowledge they need. With these courses, customers can now acquire that expertise directly from Bridge Technologies.

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