Book description
The industry-standard guide to networked audiovisual systems
Published with InfoComm International, Networked AV Systems discusses the essential information AV and IT professionals need to know when working with network-driven equipment and processes. Each chapter features diagrams, photos, notes, chapter reviews, and end-of-chapter questions with in-depth explanations. In accordance with InfoComm's performance standards for the AV industry as they relate to networking, this book serves as both an on-the-job reference and a study tool for the Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) exams.
Networked AV Systems covers:
- Network classifications, topologies, architectures, and standards
- Layers of a network
- Bandwidth, encoding, and transport
- Network building blocks
- Designing a network for AV systems
- Ethernet and AVB
- Network addressing
- Subnetting: networking AV devices together
- Protocols, ports, and documenting AV devices
- Audio and video streaming
- Digital signage
- Conferencing
- Secure remote management and monitoring
- Service level agreements
- Network security
- Troubleshooting networked systems
Table of contents
- Cover
- Networked AV Systems
- Copyright Page
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- CONTENTS AT A GLANCE
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
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PART I Getting Started
- Chapter 1 What Is a Network?
- Chapter 2 Layers of a Network
- Chapter 3 Bandwidth, Encoding, and Transport
- Chapter 4 Network Building Blocks
- Chapter 5 Designing a Network for AV Systems
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PART II Networking for AV
- Chapter 6 Ethernet, AVB, and More
- Chapter 7 Network Addressing
- Chapter 8 Subnetting: Networking AV Devices Together
- Chapter 9 Protocols, Ports, and Documenting AV Devices and Protocols
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PART III Networked AV Applications
- Chapter 10 Audio and Video Streaming
- Chapter 11 Digital Signage
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Chapter 12 Conferencing
- Conferencing Needs Analysis
- Placing the Call
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Calling Multiple Endpoints
- Multipoint Control Units
- Conferencing Endpoints
- Directory Integration
- E.164 Addressing
- Conferencing as a Stream
- SIP and Unified Communications
- Types of Conferencing Media
- Digital Audio Standards: ITU
- Conferencing and Bandwidth
- Dedicated Network Links for Videoconferencing
- Videoconferencing Latency
- Mitigating Videoconferencing Bandwidth Requirements
- Gatekeeper/SIP Server Business Rules
- Calling Across Networks
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 13 Secure Remote Management and Monitoring
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PART IV Ensuring Exceptional AV Experiences
- Chapter 14 Service-Level Agreements
- Chapter 15 Network Security
- Chapter 16 Troubleshooting Networked AV Systems
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Appendix Networked AV Systems Project
- Project Expectations and Requirements
- Project Assumptions
- Networked Device Inventory/Ports and Protocols
- Network Topology/Addressing/Subnetting
- Streaming Bandwidth
- Digital Signage Strategy
- Security Requirements
- Videoconferencing/Firewall Strategy
- Secure Remote Management and Monitoring Requirements
- Service-Level Agreements
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Networked Audiovisual Systems
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2014
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9780071824408
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