AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
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API
Application Programming Interface
Read articleATSC
Advanced Television Standard Committee
Read articleAutonomous System Number (ASN)
Autonomous System Number (ASN) is a unique identifier assigned to each network operator who manages part of the Internet and participates in the BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) global…
Read articleAWS
Amazon Web Services
Read articleBBR
Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time
Read articleCarrier-Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT)
Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT) is often used by network operators to allow a large number of private IP addresses, and hence users, to reside behind a small number…
Read articleCDN
Content Delivery Network
Read articleCGMS
Copy Generation Management System – A technology used in analog video outputs to signal copy control restrictions.
Read articleCMAF
Common Media Application Format. ISO/MPEG Standard2
Read articleCMAF Chunk
Smallest referenceable unit containing at least a MovieFragmentBox (moof) and a MediaDataBox (mdat) atom in CMAF standard.
Read articleCNAME
Canonical Name Record or Alias Record. A type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that specifies that one domain name is an alias of another…
Read articleCommon Access Token (CAT)
Common Access Token (CAT) is a CTA standard (CTA-5007-A) published in 2024 defining a token structure which can be used across multiple interoperable CDNs.
Read articleCORS
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.
Read articleCPIX
Content Protection Information Exchange Format
Read articleCPU
Central Processing Unit
Read articleCSP
Content Service Provider
Read articleCubic
A network congestion avoidance algorithm for TCP.
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