Installing, Configuring and Operating StadiumVision - ICOSV v3.2
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