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Quality of Service

Measure of underlying technical aspects or characteristics of media streaming (ITU.T P.10 item 6.212), including: performance, availability. Poor QoS can impact PVQ and/or QoE. In contrast to QoE,…

QUIC Tech Brief

The SVTA QUIC Tech Brief examines some of the differences and improvements between TCP and QUIC and provides an overview of HTTP/3. It examines the deployment model and…

Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC)

Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) is a UDP-based transport layer network protocol. HTTP/3 uses QUIC to achieve performance enhancements (e.g. simpler handshakes, multiplexing) such as lower latency media…

RAN

Radio Access Network

RDK

RDK is an open-source software platform for the connected home that standardizes core functions used in broadband devices and set-top boxes.

Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP)

Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a communication protocol for streaming audio, video, and data over the Internet. Originally developed as a proprietary protocol by Macromedia for streaming…

Real Time Streaming Protocol

Protocol developed by the IETF and published in 1998 as RFC 2326 (later revised in RFC 7826), for use in streaming media systems. RTSP lets a client remotely…

Real-time Transport Protocol

A protocol designed for delivering real-time audio and video over IP networks.

Reliable Internet Stream Transport

An open-source, interoperable transport protocol designed for reliable, low-latency video contribution and distribution over the public internet

Reverse Proxy

A type of proxy server that directs customer requests to the appropriate source server, providing a level of abstraction to the content source and ensuring smooth flow of…

RivaGAN

Round Trip Time

Measure of total time for network request (e.g. for a media object) to travel over the network and for response to travel back.

S3

Simple Storage Service

SaaS

Software as a Service

SD

Standard Definition video – “SD” usually refers to 576p or 480p content.

Second Screen

Second screen technology refers to the use of a mobile device (or another device) to provide an enhanced viewing experience for other content usually with interactive features.

Secure Reliable Transport (SRT)

Secure Reliable Transport is an open-source video streaming protocol and technology used to transmit high-quality video and audio streams over unreliable or unpredictable networks, such as the public…

Securing Streaming Video

The ability to prevent piracy, take down illegal content, and act against illegal sources are key objectives of content protection. Meeting these objectives requires the use of a…