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Video on Demand and Personalized Video - DVB

Introduction

Move to Personalized Video Delivery

Consumers are demanding more personalized video services that let them watch what they want, when they want, on the screen they want. Personalized video services include video on demand (VoD) but also extend to:

• Time shifting

• Network personal video recorder

• Advanced advertising

• Other services

Introduce High Definition into On-Demand

The next step in on-demand TV is high definition. As high-definition content becomes available, it finds its way to the on-demand system. This is valid not only for regular movies, but also for catch-up TV or replay TV.

Any Content to Any Screen

Central to personalized and VoD services is the Cisco Content Delivery System (CDS). Cisco CDS transcends traditional VoD systems and uses a highly scalable and efficient distributed architecture. Cisco CDS is designed for today's services and to facilitate moving to “any stream to any screen.”

VoD and personalized video are delivered over flexible and scalable Cisco IP Next-Generation Networks (NGNs), typically through edge quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) products such as the Cisco RF Gateway Series and then through a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) access network.

On Demand Reduces Churn

Cable VoD services provide a unique advantage over competitive video services. Cisco's extensive VoD launch experience, combined with an integrated hardware and software platform for on-demand services, deliver rapid time to market and high reliability to launch or expand this powerful cable video service.

 

Video on Demand and Personalized Video

Cisco Content Delivery System

The Cisco Content Delivery System is a flexible, scalable system for delivery of personalized and on-demand content.


SciCare Services

SciCare™ Services fully manage the launch of your video services, on time and on budget. SciCare integrates high-quality components with the necessary services and takes full responsibility for the overall solution, including any needed third-party components. An experienced team of certified project managers and engineers manages each implementation. SciCare Services maintain the day-to-day health of the network in the operate and optimize phases and achieve operational excellence through ongoing improvements.


Universal Session and Resource Manager (PDF - 829 KB)

Universal Session Resource Manager (USRM) is a distributed services management platform that provides carrier-class signaling and resource management with always-on operation. It supports both table-based and session-based quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) products. USRM uses open protocols for rapid deployment of new services or edge resources and can be configured to meet your architectural needs.


Cisco Digital Content Manager

Cisco Digital Content Manager processes the services. This can include pre-processing before storage on the video server as well as personalized ad insertion.


SuperCrypt

SuperCrypt is a digital video broadcast Simulcrypt-compliant bulk scrambler.


Session-Based Quadrature Amplitude Modulators

Cisco offers a family of edge QAMs that support VoD. The Cisco Continuum DVP eXtra Dense QAM Array 24 (XDQA-24) and RF Gateway 1 are deployable into the VoD architecture. They also allow QAM sharing between SDV and VoD services.


Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System

The industry's first carrier-class routing system transparently scales to 92 terabits per second to meet the extreme capacity needs of video entertainment delivery today while providing investment protection for the future.


Cisco Digital Cable Set-Tops

All of the set-tops in the Cisco digital cable line-up support VoD, providing investment protection. Cisco's digital cable set-tops include the Cisco Explorer 4000 and 8000 Series.


Video on Demand (VoD) changes the way people watch TV, giving them the choice, convenience, and control of watching what they want, when they want. Pause it, rewind it, or replay it: they decide.

Innovation, Experience, and Vision

Behind every service that allows consumers to progress from a broadcast video experience to a truly interactive video experience is a technology innovator with a vision. The large-scale VoD implementations of today are the result of the Cisco Cable Solutions vision to equip cable operators to make the interactive television dream a reality.

Our pioneering interactive technology helps to enable millions of subscribers to enjoy the freedom and convenience of watching the video entertainment they want, when they want. As services such as subscription VoD, digital video recorder, and Switched Digital Video (SDV) are more widely deployed, the impact and enjoyment for consumers and the revenue potential for cable operators are magnified.

Cisco Cable VoD and personalized video solutions:

• Are managed as a single system for ease of operations

• Provide a single unified system for traditional VoD and Internet streaming

• Deliver video to set-tops and other devices

• Are a flexible platform for existing VoD services and next-generation applications

From headend applications to content acquisition to set-tops, with support software for service assurance, the Cisco end-to-end VoD and personalized TV solution provides a comprehensive package. And with Cisco, you have the added benefit of a dedicated team of professionals with more than 25 years of interactive video experience.