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Content Operation

A content operation is the set of processes, people, and technologies for strategically planning, producing, distributing, and analyzing content. When properly implemented, it unifies the customer experience across…

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Content Versioning

The creation of multiple releases of content that are customized for different instances of publishing. Different versions of a title could be used for broadcast television, cable television,…

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CORS

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing – An HTTP header which allows a web page to request data from a different domain than the one that served the page.

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CPIX

Content Protection Information Exchange Format

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CPU

Central Processing Unit

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CSP

Content Service Provider

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Cubic

A network congestion avoidance algorithm for TCP.

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DASH / MPEG DASH

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP: https://www.iso.org/standard/79329.html

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Data Schema

A schema is the organization, structure and rules used to describe a set of data. Multiple schema or 'schemata' together can be represented in graphical forms such as…

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DDoS

Distributed Denial of Service – A large volume of malicious network traffic is sent to a service in order to deny access to that service by legitimate users.

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Delay Line

Parameter that enables you to add a delay on a linear channel. This is useful when the channel is viewed from a different time zone.

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Demand-Side Platform

Software technology that enables advertisers to coordinate and manage the automated buying of advertising with supply-side platforms (SSPs)

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Descriptive Metadata

Basic data to describe and contextualize the content or a creative work. For media assets exhibited on streaming video platforms, this type of metadata is usually user-facing and…

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Digital Rights Management

Digital Rights Management is the use of keys and certificates to authorize playback of a video stream to a specific user and/or device over IP streaming like OTT.

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