NDS offers a wide range of courses and programs tailored to help your team get the most from the NDS technology your company has deployed.
Our training courses cover all aspects of managing and operating NDS platforms and technologies and can be tailored to meet the requirements of your staff.
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Introduction to Conditional Access
Description: A high level general introduction to NDS VideoGuard®, describing the fundamental concepts of conditional access and how it fits into a digital broadcasting system. This is an introductory course, designed to establish a common frame of reference for managers, engineers and operators. It lays the theoretical foundation upon which other courses will build.
Duration: 2 days
Advanced CA Systems Engineering
Description: This course is aimed at systems engineers responsible for the configuration and administration of an NDS VideoGuard headend. As the content of the course assumes a high level of administrative privileges, it should only be attended by appropriately qualified delegates. This is an advanced course, to train engineers to begin to understand the internals of the VideoGuard system. The course lays the foundation to diagnose VideoGuard application, database and system issues.
Duration: 3 days
CA Operational Engineering
Description: This course is aimed at operational engineers responsible for the day-to-day operation and support of the NDS VideoGuard headend system. The course includes a basic layout of the CA hardware and networking, with an introduction to accessing basic operations level services on the UNIX and Windows 2000 servers. SNMP monitoring technology is discussed.
Duration: 2-3 days
Introduction to StreamServer
Description: A high level overview of NDS StreamServer™ and how it fits into a digital broadcasting system. This is an introductory course, designed to establish a common frame of reference for managers, engineers and operators. It lays the foundations upon which the other courses will build.
Duration: 1 day
StreamServer Operations (Level 1)
Description: A course designed to meet the operational requirements of first level operational staff. This course builds on the foundations laid by the Introduction to StreamServer course. All interaction with the system is via the user interface suite; no direct access to the Oracle database or UNIX operating system is required.
Duration: 2 days
StreamServer Operations (Level 2)
Description: A course designed to meet the advanced requirements of second level operational staff. This course builds on the StreamServer Operations Course (Level 1). Second level operational tasks can be defined as those configuration and supervision tasks that typically require a higher level of user privilege and would not typically be daily tasks.
Duration: 2 days
StreamServer Systems Engineering
Description: This course is designed to enable StreamServer support staff to confidently monitor and control the headend applications. It concentrates on start-up and shutdown procedures, health checking and basic troubleshooting.
Duration: 2 days
UNIX Basics
Description: This course provides an introduction to the UNIX operating system, with plenty of hands on work. It introduces all the basic commands and concepts of UNIX, and compares these with other operating systems such as MS-DOS.
NB: This course is not designed to replace formal UNIX training, it is intended to provide the bare minimum for safe and competent operation of the system.
Duration: 2 days