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Streaming Essentials: Part 1 (The Fundamentals of Streaming)

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This course provides a high-level overview of streaming. From the concepts and terms to the technology stack and workflow components, when students complete this course they will have a basic understanding of key streaming topics. Streaming Essentials: Part 2 will dig into more technical details of each streaming workflow component.

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What Is Streaming?

A History of Streaming 4 Topics

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Streaming From 1990 to 2000

Streaming from 2001 to 2010

Streaming from 2011-2019

Streaming in the 2020s

How Content Gets Produced, Delivered, and Watched Over the Internet 4 Topics

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Making Content Ready For The Internet

What Is Chunked HTTP Streaming?

How Videos Get Sent To Viewers

Understanding the Video Player

“What Is Streaming?” Quiz 1 Quiz

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What Is Streaming?

Internet and Networking Basics

Networking Fundamentals 3 Topics

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Understanding the Architecture of the Internet

IPTV, OTT, and SMPTE 2110

TCP and HTTP: The Engine of Streaming Video 2 Topics

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Other Networking Protocols For Streaming 5 Topics

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The Streaming Protocol Landscape

Contribution Versus Delivery Protocols

The Growth of WebRTC

HESP: The New Kid On The Block

What is QUIC and Why Is It Important?

“Internet and Networking Basics” Quiz 1 Quiz

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Networking Basics

Components of a Streaming Workflow

What Is A Streaming Workflow? 1 Topic

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From Ingest to Playback: A Standard Flow

Content Origin 3 Topics

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What Is A Content Origin?

Origin Shield: A Way To Protect More Sparse Infrastructure

Cloud vs. Datacenter: Which Is The Better Origin?

Encoders, Transcoders, and Packagers 3 Topics

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How Encoding (And Decoding) Work

What’s a Transcoder and When Is It Needed?

Packaging: The Workhorse of the Workflow

Digital Rights Management, Watermarking, and Other Ways to Protect Content 6 Topics

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The Video Security Technology Stack

How DRM Protects Content (and Why Consumers Hate It)

Securing Content During Delivery: HTTPS and TLS

A Look At The Different Methods For Watermarking

Searching for Pirates

Is Blockchain the Future Of Video Security?

CDNs and Caches 5 Topics

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What is a Content Delivery Network and How Does it Work?

CDN Architectures

The Reverse Proxy: The Workhorse of the CDN

How Caching Works

Understanding the Benchmarks of CDN Performance

The Edge And The ISP 5 Topics

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What’s a Peering Point and Why Is It Important to Video Delivery?

From User to ISP and Back Again: A Look At How Content Travels To The Viewer

Why Caching At the ISP Edge Improves The Viewer Experience

First Mile, Middle Mile, and Last Mile

How Open Caching Helps ISPs, Streaming Platforms, and Viewers

End-User Devices and Video Players 3 Topics

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What’s a Video Player?

Dissecting the Video Player Tech Stack

The Problem of Player and Device Fragmentation

“Components of a Streaming Workflow” Quiz 1 Quiz

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Streaming Workflow

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