• Describe the issues of video and data convergence.
• Describe techniques, which can be used in IP to provide low uniform delay.
• Evaluate video technologies.
• Design data networks, which will support video.

Review
Traditional video, digital video, video formats, MPEG, brief review of IP, Uses of video: downloading, streaming, TV, CCTV, conferencing.

Video over IP issues
Delivery methods: FTTH, ADSL, VDSL, 3G and others. Bandwidth, delay, jitter, signalling. Digitising video, CODECS, packetising video, comparison of techniques.

IP performance and QOS
IP TOS field, queuing strategies; FIFO, WFQ, custom, priority, RED. Differentiated services, diffserv.

Video over IP protocol stack
RTP, RTCP, mixers and translators, RSVP. IPv6.

Conferencing
Traditional solutions, Video conferencing over IP, point to point, multipoint, architectures, bridges.

Streaming
Video on demand vs. video broadcasting, architectures, RTSP, WNSRP.

ITU Recommendation H.323
Architecture, Gatekeepers, gateways, MCUs, H.320, H.321, H.239, H.350, H.324, T.120.

IETF - Session Initiation Protocol
Comparison with H.323, SIP proxy, proxy server, redirect server. SDP.

Multicasting
Multicasting compared to unicasting and broadcasting, when to use and when not to use multicasting. IGMP, DVMRP, PIM.

Security
Impact of firewalls and NAT, ISMA, DRM, DTCP.