VBrick dme User Manual

Introduction
DME Admin Guide 5
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Glossary
These terms are used throughout this document and DME’s Online help.
Rev 7.0
Auto Unicast A transmitter mode that allows an encoder to "automatically" establish and
maintain a connection with a streaming server like Quicktime or Darwin.
The stream is pushed to a configured publishing point external clients can
connect to retrieve the stream.
CDN Content delivery networks are distributed server systems of deployed in
multiple data centers in the Internet. The goal of a CDN is to serve content
to end-users with high availability and high performance.
DASH Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP. DASH is a multimedia streaming
technology where a multimedia file is partitioned into one or more
segments and delivered to a client using HTTP.
DME Distributed Media Engine is an integrated platform that provides media
redistribution, media transformation and video-on-demand content
storage.
Caching Server Content is cached at remote locations so subsequent requesting clients can
access it locally.
FMS Flash Media Server is a proprietary data and media server from Adobe
Systems. This server works with the Flash Player runtime to create media
driven, multiuser Rich Internet Applications.
Flash Multimedia platform used to add video and interactivity to web pages.
Flash uses RTMP and is a proprietary Adobe technology.
FMLE Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder is a media encoder appliance that streams
audio and video in realtime to an Adobe Flash Media Server.
FTP Server The DME uses File Transfer Protocol to populate the DME with files for
progressive download.
HDS HTTP Dynamic Streaming is Adobe's HTTP streaming protocol for Flash
players. Like other HTTP adaptive streaming protocols, it breaks the
stream into small HTTP-based files so the client can select from different
streams containing the same material encoded at different data rates. This
allows the streaming session to adapt to available data rates.
HLS HTTP Live Streaming is Apple's HTTP streaming protocol for QuickTime
and iPhone. Like other HTTP adaptive streaming protocols, it breaks the
stream into small HTTP-based files so that the client can select from
different streams containing the same material encoded at different data
rates. This allows the streaming session to adapt to available data rates.
HTTP Server The DME has an internal web server that serves VOD files via progressive
download.
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Brand	VBrick
Model	dme
Category	Engine
Language	English