IPTV in Education

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The ESC Digital Media IPTV for education solution delivers live television, audio and video to any PC, laptop, TV, plasma screen, interactive whiteboard and projector in the University, school or college building. Streams are distributed to classrooms, lecture halls, language learning centres, ICT suites and student accommodation, to enhance teaching content and inform and educate staff and students.

Teachers can project live TV from their classroom PCs to support teaching. Portable TV equipment or projectors can be directly connected to the system using an IPTV receiver. Teachers can record TV programs for later use. Recorded programs can be held on a teacher's PC, or centrally for use by all staff. Schools can create their own TV channels or programs using an IPTV server. School programs could include school events such as assemblies or concerts, or messages from the head teacher to the school.

Using the school network to deliver TV and Video

An IPTV Server can turn an existing network into a complete IPTV solution. This can be adapted to fit any size of organization from a single primary school, right up to a dispersed university or college campus. ESC Digital Media uses plug-and-play devices and open standards to allow integration with other IPTV systems to create your IPTV solution. And, because IPTV uses standard networking technology, there's no need for expensive updates, changes or modifications to current infrastructure.

Why are educational establishments adopting IPTV?

Most schools and colleges already have networks covering a building or campus that are capable of supporting a video distribution system. This reduces both the initial cost of implementation and the cost of extending the IPTV network over time. Many schools are adopting IPTV because:

• Television and video can easily be supplied to all computers on a network
• The same infrastructure can be used no matter how many channels or viewing devices are attached to the network. No special wiring or video distribution design is required
• Consistently high video quality is maintained regardless of the number of people using devices to view a channel
• Costs can be reduced by converging IPTV with existing data networks to provide services over a single cable infrastructure

Live TV and Video

• Provides local and foreign language TV channels to support teaching
• Provides information, news and entertainment channels to staff and student common areas
• Create school TV channels. Play output from any DVD, VCR or Camera onto the school network
• Relay school events or messages across the school, e.g. assembly or message from head teacher. The system provides an 'override' such that a specific channel can be 'forced' to each TV receiver
• Use as a teaching resource to allow pupils to create their own channels
• Put existing video resource material onto the school network to allow recording for shared use by teaching staff

Video on Demand

• Schedule recording of useful channels throughout the night
• Teachers can record onto their own PCs for future use or onto a shared Video on Demand server that will act as the recorded program store
• Store films and videos for later use, on demand
• Manage a wide range of broadcast services

What a ESC Digital Media IPTV network offers:

A future-proofed solution - ESC Digital Media IPTV is standards based so there's no dependency on proprietary technologies or reliance on a single vendor.

DVD-quality video - ESC Digital Media IPTV provides full-screen video on PCs or TVs that will match anything from a standard DVD player.

User-directed control - ESC Digital Media IPTV allows every user to pause, skip and replay even live broadcasts using a PC mouse or TV remote control.

Efficient, flexible, secure delivery - ESC Digital Media IPTV drastically reduces the bandwidth load from live broadcasts and eliminates time zone dependencies while it maintains secure and controlled access to information.

Scalable, secure, standards-based solutions

The complete IPTV solution from ESC Digital Media includes encoders, receivers, TV gateways, PC video clients, VOD servers and management tools.