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Cisco Content Delivery Engines – Generation 1

The Cisco

Content Delivery Engines (CDEs) are a family of carrier-class appliances that

power the Cisco Content Delivery System (CDS), an innovative, network-based, modular

video-delivery platform. The Cisco CDS delivers an unprecedented level of scalability and

reliability, while giving service providers a unique service-velocity advantage in enabling

the next generation of personalized entertainment and interactive media. The Cisco CDS

platform combines CDEs with Content Delivery Applications (CDAs), software elements

that provide real-time, scalable, and resilient capabilities such as ingest, storage, caching,

personalization, and streaming. Cisco CDEs and CDAs can be flexibly configured to

support a host of networked value-added services that telcos, cable operators, and other

service providers can rapidly deploy in order to attract and retain subscribers.

Networked Cisco CDEs work together to form a scalable, flexible, and highly available system that

enables telcos, cable operators, and other service providers to rapidly deploy a variety of high-

value services, such as video on demand (VoD), time-shift TV, network personal video recording

(nPVR), and targeted ad insertion.

Product Overview

Cisco CDEs form the hardware foundation of the Cisco CDS platform, which consists of a number

of networked, multifunction server appliances which can be centrally managed as a single “virtual”

server. Each Cisco CDE within the virtual server performs one or more functions depending on

which of the CDAs are installed on it.

Cisco CDAs can be grouped into the following service types:

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TV streaming: Content delivery to TV sets through cable or IPTV set-top boxes

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Internet streaming: Content delivery to IP devices connected to the Internet

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Visual quality experience: Error repair, statistics gathering, and channel-change-time

acceleration