Description

StadiumVision Installation and Operation (Technical Track) course is a five-day lecture/lab course which provides StadiumVision operators and engineers with the knowledge and skills necessary to implement and maintain a Cisco StadiumVision implementation on an existing Connected Stadium infrastructure.

Objectives

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Install the StadiumVision Director appliance
• Configure StadiumVision Director to control delivery of content to video screens (both streaming video and graphical files)
• Install and configure Cisco Digital Media Player 4310G appliances to manage video screens and deliver video content to the screens
• Create Zones, Groups and Scripts to manage content delivery throughout a venue
• Integrate stored video content into the StadiumVision environment through video playlists
• Configure and support Dynamic Menu Boards
• Configure Cisco VoIP phones for local TV control
• Integrate e-commerce systems with StadiumVision architecture
• Configure system backups, restores and failover processes to redundant StadiumVision appliances
• Integrate StadiumVision Director with video headend equipment as the source of video media streams

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:

• Recommended: previous training or experience with data networking CCNA or equivalent
• Recommended: previous training or experience with video and graphics content
• Recommended: for students that don’t have a video background or foundational knowledge

Outline

Module 1: Introduction to StadiumVision

• Lesson 1: Roles and Responsibilities

• • Three training tracks for different roles
  • Six different roles for StadiumVision personnel
  • Additional training for related StadiumVision components

Module 2: StadiumVision Functional Overview

• Lesson 1: StadiumVision components

• Lesson 2: StadiumVision Component Services

• Lesson 3: StadiumVision Director Applications

Module 3: StadiumVision Director Install and Upgrade

• Lesson 1: StadiumVision Director system components (hardware and software)

• Lesson 2: SVD installation procedure

• Lesson 3: SVD upgrade procedures

• LAB: Upgrade StadiumVision Director

Module 4: StadiumVision Video Delivery

• Lesson 1: Video Delivery and the DMP 4310

• Lesson 2: DMP deployment and StadiumVision Director

• Lesson 3: DMPs and Locations

• Lesson 4: Bulk Administration Tool

• LAB: Using Bulk Administration Tool

Module 5: StadiumVision Management Dashboard

• Lesson 1: dashboard layout

• Lesson 2: System commands

• Lesson 3: Troubleshooting Tools in Management Dashboard

• LAB: Management Dashboard features

Module 6: Zone, Group and Event Scripts Primer

• Lesson 1: Terms

• Lesson 2: Relating Zones to Groups to Templates to Playlists to Locations

Module 7: Content

• Lesson 1: The goal of content

• Lesson 2: StadiumVision ROI

• Lesson 3: Templates and content

• Lesson 4: Overlay templates

• Lesson 5: Content requirements

• Lesson 6: Zones and Groups: assignment guidelines

• Lesson 7: Playlists

• Lesson 8: Tickers

• Lesson 9: Luxury Suite content

• Lesson 10: Content Design Guidelines

• Lesson 11: Advances Services content support

• LAB: Downloading content to StadiumVision Director

Module 8: Zones and Groups

• Lesson 1: Implementing Zones and Groups

• Lesson 2: Using Zones and Groups to control content delivery

• LAB: Creating Zones and Groups

Module 9: Event Script

• Lesson 1: Purpose of the Event Script

• Lesson 2: Creating and editing an Event Script

• • • • Sequential states
      • Ad Hoc states
      • Assigning states to Locations via Zones and Groups

Lesson 3: Running an Event Script

• Lesson 4: Proof of Play

• Lesson 5: Event Script Best Practices

• Lesson 6: Event Script Troubleshooting

• LAB: Creating and Running an Event Script

• LAB: Creating custom overlay template for transparent wrapper over a Region 1 video

Module 10: Video Walls

• Lesson 1: What is a video wall?

• Lesson 2: Video walls using HDMI daisy chain

• Lesson 3: Video walls using HDMI splitter

• Lesson 4: Video wall caveats

• LAB: Creating and deploying a video wall template

Module 11: External Content Integration

• Lesson 1: External content sources

• Lesson 2: Importing content into templates

• Lesson 3: Importing content using the widget

Module 12: Local TV Control

• Lesson 1: Local TV Control Options

• Lesson 2: Local TV Control using Cisco IP Phones

• Lesson 3: Integrating IP Phones: CUCM and StadiumVision

• Lesson 4: Channel Lists and Channel Guides

• Lesson 5: Installing and Configuring a TouchScreen TV

• Lesson 6: Troubleshooting Local TV Control

• LAB: Installing and Configuring Local TV Control Using a Cisco 7975 IP Phone

• LAB: Installing and configuring a TouchScreen Video Screen

Module 13: In-suite Point-of-Sale Integration

• Lesson 1: PoS systems, StadiumVision and Luxury Suites

• Lesson 2: PoS-StadiumVision integration requirements

• Lesson 3: StadiumVision Stores and PoS integration

• Lesson 4: Using the built-in Cisco store to drive dynamic menu board displays

• Lesson 5: Example installation using a Quest integration

• Lesson 6: Troubleshooting a PoS integration

• LAB: Configuring a PoS Integration

Module 14: Dynamic Menu Boards

• Lesson 1: What is a Dynamic Menu Board?

• Lesson 2: Components of a Dynamic Menu Board

• Lesson 3: Creating a Dynamic Menu Board

• Lesson 4: Testing Dynamic Updates

• Lesson 5: Customizing Menu Boards

• Lesson 6: Integrating PoS systems and user roles for vendor control of Menu Boards

• Lesson 7: Troubleshooting Dynamic Menu Boards

• LAB: Creating a Dynamic Menu Board

Module 15: Centralized StadiumVision Deployments

• Lesson 1: Single-server Centralized StadiumVision

• Lesson 2: StadiumVision Remote

Module 16: Backup, Restore and Redundancy

• Lesson 1: Overview of the backup process

• Lesson 2: Enabling backups and configuring backup activities using TUI and GUI

• Lesson 3: Restoring from backups

• Lesson 4: Overview of SVD redundancy process

• Lesson 5: Backups and the redundancy process

• Lesson 6: Changing from primary to secondary SVD server and back to primary SVD.

• LAB: Backing up SVD and migrating to the secondary SVD server

Module 17: Advanced Labs and Activities

• Activity A: teleconference/videoconference with StadiumVision engineers

• Activity B: Multi-event script using video channels, transparent L-wrap overlays

• Activity C: Combine screens and DMPs from 2 or more pods to display multiple screens from a single script

• Activity D: Create a confidence monitor to verify operation of a location

• Activity E: Create a screen template for a video wall

• Activity F: Using Switch Civic Location Field to auto-create Locations

Module 18: Head End:

• Lesson 1: The Head End as part of a SVD deployment

• Lesson 2: Video and audio technologies

• Lesson 3: Head End engineering considerations for video sources:

• Lesson 4: Head end source components

• Lesson 5: Head End encoder components (including the Galaxy chassis)

• Lesson 6: The Cisco Digital Content Manager as a core Head End component

• Lesson 7: In-feeds to the DCM: United States/North America

• Lesson 8: in-feeds to the DCM: International

• Lesson 9: The DCM to the Connected Architecture

• Lesson 10: Monitoring and Troubleshooting

• Lesson 11: Legacy implementations (appendix)

Module 19: Wrap-up

• Wrap-up questions
• Lab gear and spares components
• Other related courses
• Course evaluation