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Chapter 19 Content Distribution and Delivery
Concepts
Related Topics
DMS-CD Overview, page 19-4
Understand DMP Support for the CIFS Protocol, page 19-2
Configure ACNS or WAAS, page 19-15
DMS-CD Concepts
DMS-CD Overview, page 19-4
Retry Timeout, page 19-4
Concurrent Deployments, page 19-4
DMS-CD Performance Factors, page 19-4
Understand Shared Scheduling Features for Deployments, page 19-6
ECDS
Consider ECDS when:
You use DMPs and Cisco Show and Share.
Your DMPs show high-definition video.
Each site in your WAN has a minimum of three DMPs or three Show and Share users.
Each site in your WAN has less bandwidth capacity than T2/E2.
On average, each site in your organization downloads 200-300 MB of video daily.
You need a comprehensive platform for media-delivery, including a Flash streaming server.
ACNS
Consider ACNS when:
You use DMPs and Cisco Show and Share.
Your DMPs show high-definition video.
Each site in your WAN has a minimum of three DMPs or three Show and Share users.
Each site in your WAN has less bandwidth capacity than T2/E2.
On average, each site in your organization downloads 200-300 MB of video daily.
You need a comprehensive platform for media-delivery, excepting a Flash streaming server.
WAAS
Consider WAAS when:
You use DMPs and Cisco Show and Share.
You use Windows Media for live Show and Share streams.
Each site in your WAN has a minimum of three DMPs or three Show and Share users.
Each site in your WAN has less bandwidth capacity than T2/E2.
On average, each site in your organization downloads more than 300 Mbps of video daily.
You want to use the CIFS protocol when provisioning assets to your DMPs.
Table 19-1 Comparison of Supported Content-Distribution Methods (continued)
Method Use Cases