KNK Seminars welcomes you to attend a comprehensive two-day seminar on the suites of international standards and industry specifications for multimedia terminals for circuit-switched and packet-switched communication networks. You will gain strategic engineering and business insights on technologies, advancements and trends in multimedia compression and its integration into IP, mobile, PSTN, ATM, cable TV, xDSL and other network topologies that are based on ITU standards and communications industry specifications including IETF, 3GPP, 3GPP2, ISMA, DOCSIS and PacketCable.

The future is IP converged networks for multimedia applications that integrate video, voice/audio and data. A transition is underway from traditional circuit-switched technology to packet and IP-based delivery systems. New video and telecomm services on wired and wireless converged, high-performance networks are enabling multimedia networking. Network and multimedia technologies and architectures for the legacy standards supporting traditional networks and these new IP networks and the internetworking of systems will be featured throughout the seminar.

Join us to master multimedia streaming, store-and-forward, conferencing, broadcasting, messaging, surveillance, on-demand, interactive and distribution technologies that are shaping the future of your business. Understand the functionalities, key technologies and video & voice codecs, gateways, servers, routers, terminals, protocols & signaling, media transport & network architectures to support integration and interoperability of wired and wireless multimedia services.

Video-over-IP… IPTV... telco TV... mobile terminals and services... streaming multimedia… store-and-forward... video-on-demand distribution... digital multimedia... games... mobile phone handsets and terminals... systems harmonization of broadcast content and communications content... settop box, interactive multimedia, desktop, personal mobile device configurations... surveillance... distance learning... telemedicine... business TV... IP telephony (Voice over IP)… video/speech/data conferencing... These are just a few of the applications to be explored.

Comprehensive descriptions and evaluations of technical aspects of the standards and their toolkits, their scope, similarities and differences, how they interoperate, where they are used and by whom, key features, design details and tradeoffs, implementations and market timing factors will give you a thorough understanding - from both the component- and system-level perspective - of the various multimedia communications scenarios. Your detailed seminar manual of over 300 pages documents this material and is complemented by the handbook glossary of acronyms and definitions.

The driving forces behind product developments will be examined in detail and assessed for multimedia communications systems and interactive distribution services which are undergoing rapid growth stimulated by

• significantly improved media quality, the legacy of advances in video and speech/audio compression technology;
  
• convergence of IP-based multimedia delivery and communication networks


• a continuation in cost reduction, benefited by silicon-driven improvements in price and performance; and,
  
• adoption of major sets of international and industry standards, paving the way for end-to-end multimedia communication interoperability across heterogeneous networks.
• integration of network components including gatekeepers for address translation and bandwidth control, gateways between networks such IP, PSTN, ATM, ISDN and terminal equipments.

KNK Seminars’ objective and keen insights provide a thought-provoking context for understanding the impact of these new technologies and standards. You will gain a solid foundation in technical understanding and strategic business perspectives. KNK Seminars, as a standards committee member, has access to the technical background information upon which the decisions on the best techniques to employ were made. This, coupled with industry expertise gained in product analysis, architectures and technologies, integrates the full spectrum of knowledge specific to multimedia communications technologies.

Opportunities abound. New services demand integration. Educated decisions are to be made and pitfalls to be avoided as diverse disciplines in media compression and network transmission complement and converge. KNK Seminars will assist you in developing a clear perspective of the needs, the issues and the focus for multi-service network systems. Thorough discussions and extensive analysis of new and future compression technologies over current and future networks will assist you in making winning technical and business decisions for products and services in multimedia communications systems and interactive distribution markets.

This seminar is available for onsite presentation. Call 858-459-8058 for details.