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 Cisco 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 Content Delivery Engines 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 Content Delivery Engines form the hardware foundation of the Cisco Content Delivery System platform, and consist of a number of networked, multifunction server appliances that can be centrally managed as a single "virtual" server. Each Cisco Content Delivery Engine within the virtual server performs one or more functions depending on which of the Content Delivery Applications are installed on it.
The Cisco Content Delivery Applications can be grouped into the following service types:
• TV streaming: Content delivery to TV sets through cable or IPTV set-top boxes
• Internet streaming: Content delivery to IP devices connected to the Internet
Table 1 provides a mapping between the Cisco CDAs and the various CDE models. To obtain detailed information on all CDAs, please refer to the CDA product literature.
Table 1. Cisco CDE Models and supported CDAs
Service Type
Content Delivery Application
Entry Level
Dense
High-End
TV Streaming
CDS TV Manager
CDE110-2
Vault
CDE220-2A
CDE420-4A
Content Cache
CDE420-4G
TV Streamer
CDE220-2C1
CDE220-2C2
Integrated Streamer-Vault
CDE220-2D1
Video Navigator
CDE110-2
Internet Streaming
CDS IS Manager
CDE205
Internet Streamer
CDE205
CDE220-2G2
Service Router
CDE205
CDE220-2G2
Content Acquirer
CDE205
CDE220-2G2
Visual Quality Experience (VQE)
VQE Channel Provisioning Tool
CDE111-2
VQE Server
CDE111-2
Key Features and Benefits
Designed for maximum flexibility, Cisco Content Delivery Engines can be grouped into arrays that operate as a single logical system. Service providers can easily expand capacity by simply attaching additional CDEs to the array, thereby achieving virtually unlimited video storage and streaming capacity. The Cisco Content Delivery System employs a unique hierarchical storage design that allows service providers to maintain huge content libraries, while actually simplifying content storage management. With a logically distributed architecture that can separate ingest and storage from streaming, each function can be scaled independently of the other by simply adding another Cisco CDE - which dynamically increases the pooled ingest, storage, caching, and streaming resources available throughout the network.
Cisco Content Delivery Engines adapt automatically to unpredictable and rapidly changing traffic patterns. The platform preserves video programming in a common, shared storage array that is instantly accessible for streaming anywhere in the network. Cisco's Intelligent Caching technology automates the distribution of video content between Cisco CDEs by responding dynamically to actual viewer demand and popularity trends. This adaptive content distribution model helps ensure that the content that is most popular at any point in time at each network node is always available in local storage - significantly reducing the bandwidth burden on the network backbone. This flexible architecture and the effectively unlimited scalability of content libraries make the Cisco CDS the industry leading solution for efficiently and cost-effectively delivering long-tail content, network-based time-shifted programming, and user-generated content. This serves to increase the network's scalability while at the same time minimizing capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx).
Cisco Content Delivery Engines are also designed for fault-tolerant operation. They can share state and work together as a single logical pool of resources that can be dynamically re-allocated across the network's available hardware capacity in response to service requests. In the event of hardware failure (if a disk crashes, an I/O card fails, or even if an entire vault server goes down), the Cisco CDS immediately delegates the functions being performed by the failed device to other Cisco CDEs in the network. Furthermore, the system automatically discovers the addition or removal of a Cisco CDE and reconfigures itself without service disruption or manual intervention, vastly simplifying maintenance and upgrade operations.
A network populated with Cisco CDEs becomes a platform upon which new services and applications can be layered over time and deployed much more quickly than was possible in the past - unleashing the power of IP networking technology by creating a video infrastructure capable of delivering nonstop availability, unprecedented scalability, and low total cost of ownership. Taking advantage of the extensible architecture of the Cisco CDS, operators can deploy on-demand video services today with the knowledge that they can expand their services to support real-time applications and multiple forms of rich-media content delivered to many types of devices.
A summary of the features and benefits of the Cisco Content Delivery Engines appear in Table 2.
Table 2. Cisco CDE Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
Industry Leading Stream Density
With up to 2,500 MPEG2 SD streams in a 2RU form-factor, the CDE220 Dense TV Streamer offers industry leading video streaming density (1,250 SD streams/RU). This translates to over 56,000 MPEG2 SD streams served with a single 7" rack, optimizing space requirements and reducing total ownership costs
High-Density Resilient Persistent Storage
The CDE420 high-end vault is capable of reliably storing up to 12,000 hours of SD MPEG2 content, providing service providers the ability to expand their content library with a minimum number of library servers.
High Performance Content Acquisition
Cisco Content Delivery Engines are capable of simultaneously ingesting up to 200 MPEG2 SD streams, providing highly scalable content acquisition of real-time live channels for time-shift TV services.
High Performance Processing
Eight CPU1 cores guarantee maximum performance for computationally intensive tasks such as sustained video streaming operations or per-stream targeted ad insertion.
Two dedicated management ports are available, in addition to the ingest/fill/streaming ports to simplify connectivity and manageability.
High-Efficiency Redundant Power Supply
The CDE220 and CDE420 base systems support either AC or DC dual high-efficiency power supplies, which minimize power consumption while simplifying sparing strategy.
Non-stop Service Availability
Unique failover and resiliency features help ensure that hardware failures don't bring down the network, eliminating service outages.
Logic server arrays
Resource pooling and load balancing enable Cisco CDEs to be networked into logic server arrays that can provide virtually unlimited amounts of content storage (vault array), content cache (caching node array) and streaming capacity (streamer array) throughout the network.
Additional streams or storage capacity can be added to the array without outages or service interruption. The Cisco CDS detects when new CDEs are added or removed from the logic array and optimally load balances the entire resource pool.
Independent scaling of content library size and stream count optimizes CapEx.
Multi-function Capabilities
Cisco Content Delivery Engines models are built on a few select base systems with minor differences among the available configurations, simplifying service provider's personnel training and equipment sparing strategies
1On all models except CDE205 which has four CPU cores
Cisco Content Delivery Engine Models
The latest generation of Cisco Content Delivery Engines offers higher scalability and performance in a dense design. There are four products in this new generation: CDE110, CDE205, CDE220, and CDE420. Each CDE is optimized for the Cisco Content Delivery applications that are supported on it, as shown in Table 1. Table 3 shows a high-level summary of all Cisco CDEs.
Table 3. High-Level Cisco CDE Summary
Rack Units
Processor
Model Name
Storage Capacity (GB)
Memory
I/O
CDE110
1 RU
2 quad-core
CDE111-2
146 GB (1 x 146-GB SAS)
8 GB
6 TX GE
CDE110-2
438 GB (3 x 146-GB SAS)
8 GB
4 TX GE
CDE205
2 RU
1 quad-core
1,500 GB (3 x 500-GB SATA)
8 GB
2 TX GE
CDE220
2 RU
2 quad-core
CDE220-2A
12,000 GB
(12 x 1-TB SATA)
32 GB
TX models: 8 GE copper
SX models: 8 GE fiber
All models: 2 GE copper management ports
CDE220-2C1
292 GB
(4 x 73-GB SAS)
16 GB
TX models: 4 GE copper
SX models: 4 GE fiber
All models: 2 GE copper management ports
CDE220-2C2
876 GB
(12 x 73-GB SAS)
32 GB
TX models: 12 GE copper
SX models: 8 GE fiber
All models: 2 GE copper management ports
CDE220-2D1
6,000 GB
(6 x 1-TB SATA)
16 GB
TX models: 4 GE copper
SX models: 4 GE fiber
All models: 2 GE copper management ports
CDE220-2G2
6,000 GB
(12 x 500-GB SATA)
16 GB
TX models: 8 GE copper
SX models: 8 GE fiber
All models: 2 GE copper management ports
CDE420
4 RU
2 quad-core
CDE420-4A
24,000 GB
(24 x 1-TB SATA)
32 GB
TX models: 8 GE copper
SX models: 8 GE fiber
All models: 2 GE copper management ports
CDE420-4G
10,800 GB
(24 x 450-GB SAS)
32 GB
TX models: 12 GE copper
SX models: 12 GE fiber
All models: 2 GE copper management ports
Cisco CDE110
Figure 1. Cisco CDE110
The Cisco CDE110 (Figure 1) is a 1RU appliance that is available in two hardware configurations.
• The Cisco CDE111-2 model currently supports the following applications:
– Cisco VQE Server
– Cisco VQE Channel Provisioning Tool
• The Cisco CDE110-2 model supports the following applications:
– Cisco Video Navigator
– Cisco CDS-TV Manager (CDSM)
Both configurations of the Cisco CDE110 appliance are available with AC or DC power, optionally configurable with a redundant power supply.
Table 4. Technical Specifications for Cisco CDE110
Cisco CDE110-2
Cisco CDE111-2
Rack units
1
1
Storage
438 GB SAS (3 x 146 GB SAS)
146 GB SAS (1 x 146 GB SAS)
Memory
8 GB DRAM
8 GB DRAM
Network interfaces
Four 10/100/1000BASE-T (copper)
Six 10/100/1000BASE-T (copper)
Other interfaces
Two RJ-45 console interfaces
Two RJ-45 console interfaces
Compact Flash
4 GB
4 GB
Hardware RAID
Standard
None
Optical drive
CD/DVD-ROM
CD/DVD-ROM
Power
115-240 VAC or -48 VDC;
Optional redundant power supply
115-240 VAC or -48 VDC;
Optional redundant power supply
Power rating
450W
450W
Humidity
5 to 90% non-condensing
5 to 90% non-condensing
Operating temperature
5 to 40°C (41 to 104°F)
5 to 40°C (41 to 104°F)
Altitude
0 to 4000m
0 to 4000m
Dimensions (H x W x D)
1.70 x 17 x 20 in. (4.45 x 43.2 x 50.8 cm)
1.70 x 17 x 20 in. (4.45 x 43.2 x 50.8 cm)
Weight (fully configured)
28 lb (12.7 kg)
28 lb (12.7 kg)
Approvals: Safety
UL60950-1, 1st Edition/CSA 22.2 60950-1, Low Voltage Directive.
UL60950-1, 1st Edition/CSA 22.2 60950-1, Low Voltage Directive
Approvals: EMC
FCC 47 CFR Parts 2 and 15, Verified Class A Limit
FCC 47 CFR Parts 2 and 15, Verified Class A Limit
Cisco CDE205
Figure 2. Cisco CDE205
The Cisco CDE205 (Figure 2) is a fixed-configuration, 2RU appliance that is designed as an entry-level platform for Cisco Internet Streaming applications. The Cisco CDE205 is available with AC or DC power and can be optionally configured with a redundant power supply.
Table 5. Technical Specifications for Cisco CDE205
Cisco CDE205
Rack units
1
Storage
1.5 TB SATA (3 x 500 GB SATA)
Memory
8 GB DRAM
Network interfaces
Two 10/100/1000BASE-T (copper)
Other interfaces
Console port; Two USB ports
Compact Flash
8 GB
Hardware RAID
None
Optical drive
None
Power
100-240 VAC or -48 VDC single power supply;
Optional redundant power supply available
Power rating
800W peak
Operating Humidity range
8 to 90% non-condensing
Non-operating Humidity range
5 to 95% non-condensing
Operating temperature
10 to 35°C (50° to 95°F)
Non-operating temperature
-40 to 70°C (-40° to 158°F)
Altitude
0 to 4000m
Dimensions (H x W x D)
3.5 x 17.2 x 25.5 in. (8.9 x 43.7 x 64.8 cm)
Weight (fully configured)
52 lbs
Approvals: Safety
UL/CSA 60950-1
Approvals: EMC
FCC Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A
Cisco CDE220
Figure 3. Cisco CDE220
The Cisco CDE220 (Figure 3) is a versatile platform that is available in the following five models, each of which is optimized for a particular Content Delivery Application.
• Model 2A: Dense Cisco Vault
• Model 2C1: Entry-level Cisco TV Streamer
• Model 2C2: Dense Cisco TV Streamer
• Model 2D1: Entry-level Cisco Integrated TV Streamer-Vault (ISV)
• Model 2G2: Cisco Internet Streamer, Content Acquirer, and Service Router Applications
All configurations of the Cisco CDE220 are available with AC or DC redundant power supplies, as well as in copper or fiber interface connector types.
Table 6. Technical Specifications for Cisco CDE220
Cisco CDE220
Rack units
2
Storage
Refer to the model-specific details below
Memory
Refer to the model-specific details below
Network interfaces
Refer to the model-specific details below
Other interfaces
Console port; two USB ports
Compact Flash
8 GB
Hardware RAID
Yes
Internal log drives
Dual 146 GB SAS
Optical drive
None
Power
100-240 VAC or -48 VDC redundant power supplies included in all models
Power rating
800W peak
Power consumption
427W idle;
485W spin-up
Operating humidity range
8 to 90% non-condensing
Non-operating humidity range
5 to 95% non-condensing
Operating temperature
10 to 35°C (50 to 95°F)
Non-operating temperature
-40 to 70°C (-40 to 158°F)
Altitude
0 to 4000m
Dimensions (H x W x D)
3.5 x 17.2 x 25.5 in. (8.9 x 43.7 x 64.8 cm)
Weight (fully configured)
52 lbs
Approvals: Safety
UL/CSA 60950-1
Approvals: EMC
FCC Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A
Dense Vault (CDE220, Model 2A)
The Cisco CDE220, Model 2A is designed for a dense Cisco Vault Application. It can be purchased with either eight 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces or eight 1000BASE-SX interfaces. In both cases two 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces are available for management functions. Table 7 shows the hardware bundle contained in Model 2A:
Table 7. Cisco CDE220, Model 2A Configuration
Cisco CDE220 2A
Storage
12 TB (12 x 1 TB SATA)
Memory
32 GB DRAM
Network interfaces - copper model
Eight 10/100/1000BASE-T
Network interfaces - fiber model
Eight 1000BASE-SX
Management interfaces - all models
Two 10/100/100BASE-T
Entry-Level Cisco TV Streamer (CDE220, Model 2C1)
The Cisco CDE220, Model 2C1 is designed for an entry-level Cisco TV Streamer Application. It can be purchased with either four 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces or four 1000BASE-SX interfaces. In both cases two 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces are available for management functions. Model 2C1 is available with a base of 500 streaming licenses and supports a maximum of 750 streams. Table 8 shows the hardware bundle contained in Model 2C1:
Table 8. Cisco CDE220, Model 2C1 Configuration
Cisco CDE220 2C1
Storage
292 GB (4 x 73GB SAS)
Memory
16 GB DRAM
Network interfaces - copper model
Four 10/100/1000BASE-T
Network interfaces - fiber model
Four 1000BASE-SX
Management interfaces - all models
Two 10/100/100BASE-T
Dense Cisco TV Streamer (CDE220, Model 2C2)
The Cisco CDE220, Model 2C2 is designed for a dense Cisco TV Streamer Application. It can be purchased with either twelve 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces or eight 1000BASE-SX interfaces. In both cases two 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces are available for management functions. Model 2C2 is available with a base of 1000 streaming licenses and supports a maximum of 2500 streams. Table 9 shows the hardware bundle contained in Model 2C2:
Table 9. Cisco CDE220, Model 2C2 Configuration
Cisco CDE220 2C2
Storage
876 GB (12 x 73GB SAS)
Memory
32 GB DRAM
Network interfaces - copper model
Twelve 10/100/1000BASE-T
Network interfaces - fiber model
Eight 1000BASE-SX
Management interfaces - all models
Two 10/100/100BASE-T
Entry-level Cisco Integrated TV Streamer-Vault (CDE220, Model 2D1)
The Cisco CDE220, Model 2D1 is designed for an entry-level Cisco Integrated Streamer-Vault (ISV) Application. It is available with a base of 300 streaming licenses and 2000 hours of storage. Additional licenses can be purchased for a maximum of 750 streams and 3000 hours of storage. Model 2D1 can be purchased with either four 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces or four 1000BASE-SX interfaces. In both cases two 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces are available for management functions. Table 10 shows the hardware bundle contained in Model 2D1:
Table 10. Cisco CDE220, Model 2D1 Configuration
Cisco CDE220 2D1
Storage
6 TB (6 x 1TB SATA)
Memory
16 GB DRAM
Network interfaces - copper model
Four 10/100/1000BASE-T
Network interfaces - fiber model
Four 1000BASE-SX
Management interfaces - all models
Two 10/100/100BASE-T
Cisco Internet Streamer and Service Router (CDE220, Model 2G2)
The Cisco CDE220, Model 2G2 is designed for Cisco Internet Streamer Applications. It can be purchased with either eight 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces or four 1000BASE-SX interfaces. In both cases two 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces are available for management functions. Table 11 shows the hardware bundle contained in Model 2G2:
Table 11. Cisco CDE220, Model 2G2 Configuration
Cisco CDE220 2G2
Storage
6 TB (12 x 500GB SATA)
Memory
16 GB DRAM
Network interfaces - copper model
Eight 10/100/1000BASE-T
Network interfaces - fiber model
Eight 1000BASE-SX
Management interfaces - all models
Two 10/100/100BASE-T
Cisco CDE420
Figure 4. Cisco CDE420
The Cisco CDE420 (Figure 4) is a high-end 4RU appliance that is available in two models:
• Model 4A: High-end Cisco Vault Application
• Model 4G: Cisco Content Cache Application
The Cisco CDE420 is available with redundant AC or DC power supplies, as well as with a choice of copper or fiber interfaces.
Table 12. Technical Specifications for Cisco CDE420
Cisco CDE420
Rack units
4
Storage
Refer to the model-specific details below
Memory
Refer to the model-specific details below
Network interfaces
Refer to the model-specific details below
Other interfaces
Console port; two USB ports
Compact Flash
8 GB
Hardware RAID
Yes
Internal Log Drives
Dual 146 GB SAS
Optical drive
None
Power
100-240 VAC or -48 VDC redundant power supplies included in all models
Power rating
900W peak
Power consumption
560W idle;
900W spin-up;
Operating humidity range
8 to 90% non-condensing
Non-operating humidity range
5 to 95% non-condensing
Operating temperature
10 to 35°C (50 to 95°F)
Non-operating temperature
-40 to 70°C (-40 to 158°F)
Altitude
0 to 4000m
Dimensions (H x W x D)
7.0 x 17.2 x 26 in. (17.8 x 43.7 x 66.0 cm)
Weight (fully configured)
96 lbs
Approvals: Safety
UL/CSA 60950-1
Approvals: EMC
FCC Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A
High-End Cisco Vault (CDE420, Model 4A)
The Cisco CDE420, Model 4A is designed for the high-end Cisco Vault Application. It can be purchased with either eight 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces or eight 1000BASE-SX interfaces. In both cases two 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces are available for management functions. Table 13 shows the hardware bundle contained in Model 4A:
Table 13. Cisco CDE420, Model 4A Configuration
Cisco CDE420 4A
Storage
24 TB (24 x 1 TB SATA)
Memory
32 GB DRAM
Network interfaces - copper model
Eight 10/100/1000BASE-T
Network interfaces - fiber model
Eight 1000BASE-SX
Management interfaces - all models
Two 10/100/100BASE-T
Cisco Caching Node (CDE420, Model 4G)
The Cisco CDE420, Model 4G is designed for the Cisco Content Cache Application. It can be purchased with either twelve 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces or twelve 1000BASE-SX interfaces. In both cases two 10/100/1000BASE-T interfaces are available for management functions. Table 14 shows the hardware bundle contained in Model 4G:
Table 14. Cisco CDE420, Model 4G Configuration
Cisco CDE420 4G
Storage
10 TB (24 x 450 GB SAS)
Memory
32 GB DRAM
Network interfaces - copper model
Twelve 10/100/1000BASE-T
Network interfaces - fiber model
Twelve 1000BASE-SX
Management interfaces - all models
Two 10/100/100BASE-T
Ordering Information
Table 15 lists the Cisco CDE product descriptions and part numbers required to place an order. Before you place an order, please check the availability of the part number by checking the Cisco Global Price List. To place an order, visit the Cisco Ordering Home Page and refer to Table 15.
Table 15. Ordering Information
Product
Model Number
Part Number
Product Description
CDE111
CDE111-2-146TXA-K9
1RU Engine, 1x 146G HDD GE TX, AC, 1 Content Del. Appl
CDE111-2-146TXD-K9
1RU Engine, 1x 146G HDD GE TX, DC, 1 Content Del. Appl
CDE110-2
CDE110-2-146TXA-K9
1RU Engine, 3x146G HDD GE TX, AC, 1 Content Del. Appl
CDE110-2-146TXD-K9
1RU Engine, 3x146G HDD GE TX, DC, 1 Content Del. Appl
Spare rack mount kit, EIA 19 inch for the Cisco CDE110
CDE-RCK-EIA23ETSI=
Spare rack mount kit, EIA 23 inch and ETSI for the Cisco CDE110
CDE-HDD-SAS-146=
Spare 146GB SAS Disk Drive for CDE110
CDE205/CDE220
CDE2-PWR-2U-AC
AC Power Supply for Gen 2 2RU Content Delivery Engine
CDE2-PWR-2U-DC
DC Power Supply for Gen 2 2RU Content Delivery Engine
CDE2-PWR-2U-AC=
Spare AC Power Supply for Gen 2 2RU Content Delivery Engine
CDE2-PWR-2U-DC=
Spare DC Power Supply for Gen 2 2RU Content Delivery Engine
CDE420
CDE2-PWR-4U-AC
AC Power Supply for Gen 2 4RU Content Delivery Engine
CDE2-PWR-4U-DC
DC Power Supply for Gen 2 4RU Content Delivery Engine
CDE2-PWR-4U-AC=
Spare AC Power Supply for Gen 2 4RU Content Delivery Engine
CDE2-PWR-4U-DC=
Spare DC Power Supply for Gen 2 4RU Content Delivery Engine
CDE2-HDD-SAS-450=
Spare 450GB SAS Drive for Gen 2 Content Delivery Engine
CDE205/CDE220/CDE420
CDE2-HDD-SATA-1T=
Spare 1TB SATA Drive for Gen 2 Content Delivery Engine
CDE2-HDD-SATA-500=
Spare 500GB SATA Drive for Gen 2 Content Delivery Engine
CDE2-HDD-SAS-73=
Spare 73GB SAS Drive for Gen 2 Content Delivery Engine
CDE2-HDD-SAS-146=
Spare 146GB SAS Drive for Gen 2 Content Delivery Engine
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