This MIB module defines ISA 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:
ASI Asynchronous Serial Interface
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
LSCP Lightweight Stream Control Protocol
RTI Roome Telecommunications, Inc
RTSP Real-Time Streaming Protocol
STB Set-Top Box
TTV Tampereen Tietoverkko, Finland
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.
Vault: Content delivery application responsible for ingesting
and storing video content and making it available to streamers.
Streamer: Content delivery application responsible for streaming
video out to STB's.
CorbaLoc: Corba Location (CorbaLoc) refers to a string object
reference for a CORBA object that looks similar to a URL and
provides a human readable and editable way to specify a location
where an IOR (Interoperable Object Reference) can be obtained.
An example of a corbaloc URL is:
'corbaloc::160.45.110.41:38693/StandardNS/NameServer-POA/_root'
ISA: Time Warner Cable's Interactive Services Architecture is a
CORBA-based framework specifying interfaces for communication
between various applications and servers in a cable
video-on-demand ecosystem, including back-office, billing,
subscriber management and streaming.