Course Description
Learn to put AV systems on your network without guessing at bandwidth, addressing, or QoS, and to hold a productive design conversation with the AV team.
Who it’s for. Network administrators, systems engineers, and IT managers who are being handed responsibility for networked AV and have no AV background.
Learning outcomes.
Verify that switch and distribution architecture, including multicast querier uplinks, meets AV bandwidth requirements
Build a traffic management strategy using traffic classes, DSCP marking, bandwidth reservations, and congestion management
Define a VLAN and subnet strategy that segments AV traffic and routes correctly between AV and other VLANs
Choose between static addressing, DHCP, and DHCP with reservations for AV devices, and justify the choice
Read manufacturer and encoder/decoder spec sheets to extract bitrate, CODEC, latency, and PoE requirements
Use a ports and protocols document to plan firewall rules, QoS policy, and network segmentation
Compare converged, dedicated, SDN, cloud, and hybrid topologies and present the tradeoffs to stakeholders
Topics covered.
The Roles of IT and AV
Being Prepared for AV on Your Network
Impact of AV on the Network
AV Applications and Protocols
AV Traffic and Bandwidth