Description: 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.