This MIB module defines ingest manager configuration objects
that faciliate the management of the Cisco Content Delivery
System for TV (CDS-TV) product family.

CDS-TV is a suite of products and software applications
providing ingest, storage, caching, streaming, playout and
on-demand delivery of video to television or set-top-box
clients.

Abbreviations:

CCP     Cache Control Protocol
CDS     Content Delivery System
CORBA   Common Object Request Broker Architecture 
ISA     Interactive Services Architecture
ISV     Integrated Streamer-Vault
FSI     File Service Interface
FTP     File Transfer Protocol
MPEG    Motion Picture Experts Group
MSA     Managed Services Architecture
RTSP    Real-Time Streaming Protocol
STB     Set-Top Box

Common terms:

Catcher: Device responsible for receiving content (typically via
satellite dishes and antennae) from content providers or from a
Headend-In-The-Sky. 

Content Ingest: Acquisition of content from a source such as a
catcher or an FTP server for storing it locally and making it
available to streamers as needed.

Ingest Manager: CDS module that takes care of provisioned
content objects by collecting metadata, sending messages to the
appropriate subsystem to ingest the content, and sending
messages to expire the content when the expiration period has
passed. 

Device Roles:

Vault: Content delivery application responsible for ingesting
and storing video content and making it available to streamers
and/or caching nodes.

Caching Nodes: Content delivery application responsible for
caching content from vault (using CCP) and then streaming
content out to streamers over HTTP or CCP.

Streamer: Content delivery application responsible for streaming
video out to STB's.

ISV: Content delivery application capable of acting as both a
vault and as a streamer in a single device.