Preface

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This preface describes the objectives and organization of this document and explains how to find additional information on related products and services. This preface contains the following sections:

Overview

The Cisco Digital Media System (DMS) is a set of software applications that help enable effective management and delivery of live and on-demand video over the network to any audience. Taking Cisco's best practices from more than ten years of video and Internet initiatives, Cisco DMS can deliver digital media to customers, employees, students, and other audiences to help improve customer intimacy, productivity, learning, and information sharing.

Intended Audience

The intended audience for this publication are end users of the Video Portal software (such as employees, customers). This document is not meant for systems or network administrators to install, configure, or troubleshoot the product. Refer to the Cisco Documentation Web site at www.cisco.com.

Document Conventions

This publication uses the following conventions to convey instructions and information.

Convention	Description
boldface font	Commands and keywords.
italic font	Variables for which you supply values.
[ ]	Keywords or arguments that appear within square brackets are optional.
[x | y | z]	A choice of required keywords appears in braces separated by vertical bars. You must select one.
< >	Nonprinting characters, for example passwords, appear in angle brackets in contexts where italic font is not available.
[ ]	Default responses to system prompts appears in square brackets.

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