Preface

Revised: July 22, 2008, OL-15762-01

Cisco Digital Media System is the collective name for a product family that consists of Cisco Digital Media Manager (DMM) appliances, Cisco Video Portal appliances, Cisco Digital Media Player (DMP) endpoints, Cisco Digital Media Encoder (DME) devices, and all associated software components.

This guide tells you how to use the software modules that you licensed for your Cisco Digital Media Manager 5.0 software and how to use the Cisco Video Portal Reports 5.0 software that is preinstalled on a Video Portal appliance. Depending on the software feature module licenses that you purchase, DMM helps you to create and manage an online video portal, create and manage a digital signage network, create and manage an enterprise TV network, or do all of these.

The intended audience for this guide is DMM users who create, publish, or manage media for desktop video, digital signage, or enterprise TV. This guide is not meant for systems or network administrators who install, configure, or troubleshoot DMS products. See Cisco.com for related DMS and DMM user documentation

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