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Digital Video

Introduction

With more than 270 installed digital cable systems passing more than 53 million homes worldwide, Cisco helps cable operators deliver the reliable, high-quality entertainment, information, and communications experiences that today’s consumers expect. Throughout the digital headends and across the highly reliable networks that connect to more than 36 million Cisco digital set-tops, our diverse portfolio of products and systems deliver the performance and reliability that is essential to successful digital cable operations.

Cisco’s digital video solution can help you increase average revenue per user (ARPU) and deploy a set of interactive services that are simply not available with basic analog cable. Cisco’s end-to-end digital video solution provides all the key functions needed in the digital headend, including acquisition, encoding and transcoding, video processing, encryption, and management.

Cisco Digital Video solution elements include:

Digital Network Control System (PDF - 59 KB)

In PowerKEY systems, the Digital Network Control System (DNCS) provides scalable management and control of set-tops throughout the system, including electronic program guide (EPG) for linear digital services.


Acquisition

The Cisco Galaxy Headend Modular Rack System has been designed to build flexibility into your digital headend, making it easy to cost-effectively adapt to changing signal formats, new configuration requirements, and new technologies.


MPEG AVC Encoding

Cisco’s MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) high-definition (HD) and standard-definition (SD) encoders maximize bandwidth to support advanced services and accelerate launch of new or expanded customer-driven services such as HD and VoD.


MPEG-2 Encoding

From the simplest encoding application to the most complex, the Cisco MPEG-2 encoders offer the flexibility to harmonize features, performance, and cost without sacrificing video quality.


MPEG AVC and MPEG-2 Decoding Solutions

The reliable performance of Cisco MPEG AVC and MPEG-2 encoders is complemented by a full range of versatile, flexible MPEG AVC and MPEG-2 receivers and decoders. These products have the feature set and form factor that matches value with performance for a given application.


Video Processing

Today’s complex converged services networks need powerful, flexible, compact multiplexing technology in digital headends. The Cisco Digital Content Manager (DCM) solution is an extremely powerful, full-featured multiplexer/video processing platform that can help you launch and manage your current and future digital services, while giving you freedom and flexibility for your operating needs.


Video Management

The ROSA management system provides a single point of control and remote operations capability that supports both Cisco and third-party products.


Cisco Digital Cable Set-Tops

Network-based ad insertion can be deployed on all Cisco’s digital cable set-tops. Client-based ad insertion using tru2way can be deployed across the range of set-tops, including the Cisco Explorer 4000 and 8000 Series.


Key benefits of the Cisco digital video delivery system include the following:

• The unified end-to-end system facilitates integration of Video on Demand (VoD), Switched Digital Video (SDV), and other services.

• PowerKEY, Cisco's powerful conditional access system, has never been compromised.

• Flexible service and transport options can deliver MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 services, and provide a migration path to IP video services for the new generation of hybrid set-tops.