2022 CBNT & CBNE Study Topics Series

April 5, 2022

An eight-part series of webinars to provide a background and understanding of networking technology, media and IT systems found in the SBE Certified Broadcast Networking Technologist (CBNT) or the Certified Broadcast Networking Engineer (CBNE) certification exams.

The impact of information technology (IT) in the broadcast facility is clearly here to stay. IT is a diverse field with IP networking often found as the foundation technology or glue that makes other areas of IT integration possible. The understanding of IP networking and IT systems is an essential foundation for today’s broadcast engineer.

This webinar series provides a broad overview and practical understanding of the networking technology, media and IT systems found in a radio or TV broadcast media facility. The eight-part webinar series will cover network types/topologies and models, internetworking, media system architecture, high availability IT systems, IT cybersecurity, and building IT infrastructure. The final webinar will review the series and discuss CertPreview and taking an exam. Please note that this series should not be considered a comprehensive certification tutorial!

Webinar lectures will be supplemented with reference material handouts and selected outside readings. The participant should expect to spend two to three hours in self-study outside of the formal presentation time, especially if seeking certification. Please note that lecture notes and handouts can be used as reference material for certification exam multi-choice questions. Reference material cannot be used for the CBNE essay question.

This webinar series originally streamed in 2022.

Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Internetworking
Module 3: Physical and Virtual Addressing
Module 4: Media Systems Architecture
Module 5: IT Systems for Broadcast Media
Module 6: IT Cybersecurity
Module 7: Building the IT Infrastructure
Module 8: Webinar Series Review

Instructor

Wayne Pecena, CPBE, 8-VSB, AMD, ATSC3, DRB, CBNE

Wayne Pecena Wayne M. Pecena is the associate director of educational broadcast services at Texas A&M University. Wayne has more than 48 years of broadcast and IP network engineering experience and holds BS and MS degrees from Texas A&M University. Wayne is a Fellow of the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) and holds the Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer (CPBE) and Certified Broadcast Network Engineer (CBNE) certifications from the SBE. He currently serves in his second term as the national President of the SBE. He was named the 2012 SBE Educator of the Year, the 2014 Radio World Engineer of the year, and named an IEEE-BTS Distinguished Lecturer in 2018. He is a frequent industry speaker on IP Networking and cybersecurity topics for the broadcast and media technology technology professional.

Module 1: Introduction

The 2022 CBNT & CBNE Study Topics Series kicks-off with Module 1: Introduction. Module 1 of the series provides an introduction and will cover network topologies, standards, OSI/TCP models, UTP/STP, fiber infrastructure physical wiring and WiFi.