Advanced Media Strategies offers in-depth workshops, which may be customized for individualized situations and delivered either on-site or via teleconference. Details and pricing are available upon request. 

About Workshops and Seminars

1. •[By arrangement] Advanced Media Strategies will custom-tailor any of the following workshops to address the specific needs of investors, service providers, technology suppliers, engineers and operations teams, creatives and other interested clients, with sensitivity to each client's unique situation.
   

2. •These sessions may also be combined with on-site consultation
   

IPTV-1: An In-depth Introduction to Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)

1. •[Half-day] - Designed for management and non-technical audiences that need enough information about IPTV to make informed strategic and tactical decisions relating to IPTV and related multimedia communications and content-delivery services.
   

2. •This workshop examines business models, the end-to-end delivery ecosystem, enabling technologies, major suppliers and provides case study examples of service providers offering video and converged multi-service bundles to their subscribers commercially. Finally, the session explains some of the important lessons learned and the road ahead for IPTV.
   

IPTV-2: Delivery ecosystems for IPTV

1. •[Half-day] - This workshop takes technical and non-technical audiences beyond the "what" and "why" of IPTV; to present "how" a communications carrier can implement the end-to-end infrastructure that delivers advanced digital media services to its subscribers. It describes the delivery methods, products and infrastructure technologies necessary to implement, distribute and protect TV-based content delivery services over broadband IP networks.
   

2. •Designed for business and technical audiences that wish to complement an existing telecom background with a more complete understanding of IPTV-enabled infrastructure, best-practices for systems and application design and end-to-end optimization.
   

IPTV-3: A Practical Guide to IPTV Middleware and Applications platforms

1. •[Half-day] - Designed for business and technical audiences, this session presents all of the intracacies of IPTV middleware; thepart of any IPTV deployment that's most responsible for translating business requirements into functionality and ultimately into billable services.
   

2. •IPTV middleware is responsible for defining and managing the IPTV services themselves; the subscriber experience; the provisioning of the subscriber with CPE and services; the packaging, pricing and management of content, transaction management and much more. This session recommends processes and methodologies that an operator can use to develop requirements and identify whether or not their vendors can fulfill them.
   

IPTV-4: Optimizing and Securing IPTV content delivery

1. •[Half-day] - Designed for business and technical audiences, this session presents IPTV headend and delivery infrastructures that include transport, access and the necessary test-and-measurement systems and methodologies to help maximize Video Quality, Quality-of-Service and IPTV Quality-of-Experience.
   

2. •It also describes opportunities to protect and further monetize content after it has reached the digital home. Scenarios also exist in which different forms of the same content can be distributed across fixed-line TV, broadband and mobile subscribers by leveraging common video processing resources, cross-services messaging and the ability for subscribers to control the features of fixed-line services using mobile devices and vice-versa.
   

IPTV-5: Hybrid and Alternative IPTV service models

1. •[Half-day] - Designed for business and technical audiences, this session identifies and describes IPTV service platforms in which video services arrive to the consumer via alternate and multiple means.
   

2. •Services in which on-demand video and multimedia are delivered over IP fixed-lines but multichannel live TV comes via over-the-air, satellite or non-IP digital fixed line delivery.  These service platforms have differing appeal in different world regions.  The category referred to as “Internet TV” is really a variety of service and deployment models; some involving set-top boxes, or PC software and some not.  Delivery may be file based or streamed.
   

IPTV-6: IPTV Test Measurement & Monitoring

1. •[Half-day] - Designed for business and technical audiences, this session identifies the importance of IPTV video quality, Quality-of-Service and Quality-of-Experience, and how IPTV Test Measurement & Monitoring solutions work toward assuring that an operator’s IPTV services merit a high level of consumer satisfaction.
   

2. •IPTV video quality consists of the quality of the video signal itself, the risks to video quality due to errors that occur during delivery over the network, the responsiveness of service features and the perceived quality as seen by subscribers.  Test, Measurement and Monitoring are used before, during and after deployment, for reasons as diverse as ensuring the right vendor selections before making new capital equipment expenditures, ensuring acceptable responsiveness before the service goes live, and identifying technical issues before subscribers are impacted and begin to complain - possibly saving expensive service calls.