Connected Home & Devices - Hands-on

Extensive rapid expansion of broadband access into the home market has provided home, domestic and Small Office Home Office (SOHO) users an opportunity to make radical changes to their usage. New ways to deliver video and television via IP offer more choice and higher quality. Voice carried over IP can reduce cost and expand flexibility. But further changes are now possible allowing integration of the communications and living environments.

Intelligent network services will allow the Home Area Network (HAN) to deliver energy management and environmental efficiency improvements that could make financial savings that could deliver the revenue needed to run the network and perhaps deliver a financial return. Integration with wireless mobile devices will allow near seamless transition from business and domestic environments allowing the high flying professional to manage business and social contacts through their preferred mobile devices.

Modern families now expect to create; store and exchange video, pictures and other information and the new home area network must be able to deliver near seamless ways to achieve this. In many markets considerable amounts are spent my domestic customer on hardware and other technology but the expertise needed to bring together the technologies that exist into an integrated environment are lacking. Carriers and service provider that can undertake the integration either as part of their normal installation and support or as a premium support service for their most valued customers will win increasing market share.

This course provides a fast overview of how to install, configure and integrate the key technologies into a functioning Home Area Network. In the classroom the course enable attendees to construct a working model of an environment to integrate Broadcast TV, IPTV, VoIP, CCTV security, Environmental control, Service Synchronized Multimedia storage and sharing, iPhone/Android/Windows Mobile phone integration with traditional Internet Access and Telecommunications services.