Cisco Show and Share

The Cisco® Digital Media System (DMS) is a comprehensive suite of digital signage, Enterprise TV, and desktop video applications that allow companies to use digital media to increase sales, enhance customer experience, and facilitate learning. Support from the broad Cisco partner ecosystem of deployment, solution development, and content creation partners helps ensure a successful digital media implementation.

Cisco Digital Media Manager

Figure 1. Cisco Digital Media Manager

• Cisco Digital Media Encoders (DMEs): The studio-level (Cisco DME 2000) and portable (Cisco DME 1000) encoders provide live and on-demand streaming digital media across an IP network with a variety of encoding formats, inputs, and monitoring functions.

• Cisco Digital Media Player (DMP): The Cisco DMP is a highly reliable IP-based hardware endpoint for video decoding and playback of digital media content-including high-definition live broadcasts or on-demand video, Flash animations, text tickers, and other Web content-across digital signs; this critical component of the Cisco Digital Signage application allows for the networking of digital signs.

• Cisco Video Portal: This Web-based video portal allows users to easily browse, search, and view digital media interactively at their desktops.

• Cisco Video Portal Reports: This Web-based reporting tool allows you to view real-time traffic reports of Cisco Video Portal content. Used by administrators and content authors, this tool ships on the Cisco Video Portal server appliance.

Applications

• Manage rich and effective communications with customers, investors, partners, students, media relations, and more

• Publish live and on-demand events and content to geographically dispersed audiences

• With a single and centralized management platform, offer consumers tailored content through IP-enabled devices, such as the Cisco Digital Media Player, for playback on digital signs; you can also publish content through the Web for desktop viewing on the Cisco Video Portal

• Maintain a consistent branding experience through PCs and through on-premise digital signage displays in branch-office banks, retail stores, or break rooms or lobbies

Key Features and Benefits

Cisco Digital Media Manager: Managing and Publishing Digital Media

Cisco Digital Media Manager: Management Modules

• Cisco Digital Signage Module: For managing digital signage content and a network of connected Cisco Digital Media Player endpoints

• Cisco Video Portal Module: For managing and publishing media to the Cisco Video Portal for desktop viewing

• Cisco Live Event Module: An add-on to the Cisco Video Portal Module for slide synchronization and management of viewer questions during live events

• Discover, configure, manage, categorize and group, and monitor Cisco Digital Media Players on the network

• Control playback of content and playlists on digital signage displays, including instant updates or scheduling of content frequency and duration (day-parting)

• Create and design screen layouts, divide screen real estate into regions, and populate content into these regions using a drag-and-drop Web interface

• Create and manage playlists and configure on-screen Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or static text tickers

• Remotely control and manage digital display properties such as on/off, contrast, brightness, and volume

• Add and archive digital signage content and assign metadata to assets

• View reports for content scheduled for playback on digital signage displays

• Easily customize the Cisco Video Portal user interface for specific end-user environments

• Add and archive content and assign metadata and keywords for easy location and categorizing through the Cisco Video Portal

• Create and manage playlists, ticker alerts, messages, and supplemental information such as downloadable files and related links on the Cisco Video Portal

• Preview content and manage approval workflow for streamlined delivery of rich media directly to end users at their desktops

• Secure access to the Cisco Video Portal with optional login and authentication through a Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Protocol (LDAP) server

• The add-on Cisco Live Event Module allows you to:

– Import graphics derived from Microsoft PowerPoint either as a set of JPEG images or as an Adobe Flash animation (.swf) file

– Synchronize these graphics with the video and audio streams produced during a live Webcast event

– Save the combined, live event stream as a VoD session for post-event viewing

– Allow Cisco Video Portal viewers to submit text-based questions to the event producers and presenters during a live Webcast event

Product Specifications

Table 1. Cisco Digital Media Manager Features

Table 2. Cisco Digital Media Manager Client Requirements

Ordering Information

Table 3. Cisco Digital Media Manager Ordering Information

Service and Support

• User feature and functionality requirements validation

• Architecture validation

• Network and operations readiness assessment

• Detailed design and implementation schedule development

• System acceptance test plan development

• Staffing plan development

• Installation, configuration, and integration support

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