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Satellite Ku-band IPTV and Direct To Home Services

2 Day Course
Code PWL103

This course has been retired. Please view currently available Satellite Comms Training Courses.

Modules

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Satellite service technology: How they work and what they do best (12 topics)

  • How satellites work
  • Orbits: Geo-stationary and low earth orbits
  • Transponder profiles
  • Engineering Power Budgets a their impact
  • Uplink and Downlink frequencies; C-Band, Ka-Band, X-Band and Ku-Band
  • Interference in different bands
  • Regulation and licensing
  • Traditional Applications: Telecoms, Broadcast TV Delivery, Direct-to-home one-way
  • Coverage
  • Costing satellite technology
  • What satellites do best
  • What satellites find hard

Applying Ku-Band Services: Why this is different (6 topics)

  • New Ku-Band Transponder Profiles
  • Spot services
  • Capacity considerations and Multiple Access
  • Engineering Links
  • Typical Ku-band service profiles
  • What can be done with these services

Up-link and Down-link Technology: What it looks like and what it can do (7 topics)

  • Engineering the Up-Link
  • Antennas
  • Power
  • Down-link requirements
  • Dishes and antenna construction
  • Alignment
  • Tracking

Applying Satellites to Interactive IP and IPTV (11 topics)

  • Problems and solutions
  • Modern Triple Play service requirements
  • Bandwidth
  • Delay
  • Overcoming problems with Jitter
  • Recovering lost packet data
  • Point-to-point services
  • Point-to-multipoint services
  • Multicasting TD and HDTV
  • Back-haul of area based services
  • Direct-to-Home Interactive IP VSAT services

Deploying Services Today: Where can satellites play a key part in new networks (10 topics)

  • Potential TV Head-end delivery markets
  • DVB-T, DVBC, DVB-S
  • Mobile handheld TV: DVB-H
  • Growing Free-To-Air Services
  • News and Outside Broadcast
  • Telecommunications Backhaul
  • Financial and credit services
  • Education and Health applications
  • Military applications
  • Security applications

Prerequisites

Delegates should have a basic understanding of telecommunications principles, and basic knowledge of IP.

Additional Learning

The courses below may help you meet the knowledge level required to take this course.

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