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Digital Rights Management (CDN)
Encoder Boundary Point

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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.

Group of Pictures

Group of Pictures is a collection of successive pictures within a coded video stream. It is composed of I, P, B and D frames which are composing the GOP structure.

Over-the-Top

Over-The-Top is a term used to describe video services which are taking leverage of the user internet access. It can be either deployed over managed or non managed network. OTT bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms, the companies that traditionally act as a controller or distributor of such content.

Software Development Kit

Software Development Kit is a set of software tools, guidelines and programs used by programmers and developers to create applications for a specific platform.

User Datagram Protocol

User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the main transport protocols used in IP networks. It corresponds to Layer 4 in the OSI 7-layer model of the networking stack.  It is a “stateless” or “connectionless” protocol which means that features such as retransmission and flow control, if desired, must be

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