Abbreviation/Acronym | Description |
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ABR | Adaptive Bit Rate |
ACL | Access Control List |
ACS | Auto-Configuration Server |
ADSG | Advanced DOCSIS Settop Gateway |
AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
AKE | Authentication and Key Exchange |
ALG | Application Layer Gateway |
AMS | Ad Management Service |
APDU | Application Protocol Data Unit |
API | Application Programming Interface |
ATSC | Advanced Television Systems Committee standards. A set of standards developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks. |
AVRCP | Audio/Video Remote Control Profile |
AWG | Advanced Wireless Gateway |
BSP | Board Support Package |
CANH | Conditional Access Network Handler for OCAP |
CAS | Conditional Access Server (or System) |
CAT | Conditional Access Table |
CCI | Copy Control Information |
CCSP | Common Component Software Platform |
CCTV | Closed Caption Television |
CDC | Connected Device Configuration |
CDN | Content Delivery Network (also known as Infinity Phase 2 and CCDN) |
cDVR | Cloud Digital Video Recorder |
CE | Customer Edge |
CEA-608 | Standard for Closed Captioning for NTSC TV Broadcast |
CEA-708 | Standard for Closed Captioning for ATSC digital television stream |
CEDIA | Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association |
CDM | CDM stands for "Content Decryption Module". The term comes from the Encrypted Media Extensions Specification (EME). This is a clientside component that provides content protection services to an application, such as generating license requests and performing decryption. |
CHILA | The CableCARD Host Interface Licensing Agreement (CHILA) restricts the technologies that CE companies may use for distributing video from host devices. |
CIFS | Common Internet File System |
CMF | Code Management Facility |
CMTS | Cable Modem Termination Systems |
COAM | Customer owned and maintained |
COSA | Cisco Open Source Architecture |
CPC | Client Platform Components |
CR | Component Registrar |
CWMP | CPE WAN Management Protocol |
DAC | Digital-to-Analog converter |
DCA | Data Collection and Analysis |
DCM | Device Configuration Manager |
DCS | Dynamic Channel Selection |
DES | Data Encryption Standard |
DLNA | Digital Living Network Alliance |
DLNA CVP-1 | DLNA Commercial Video Player |
DMCLI | Database Manager Command Line Interface |
| Data Model Management Layer |
DMP | Digital Media Player. This is a DLNA-compliant client device. |
DMS | Digital Media Server. This is a DLNA-compliant server device. |
DNCS | Digital Network Control System - The Cisco Head End main component used by MSOs to provide network services to their customers. |
DOCSIS | Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications |
DRM | Digital Rights Management - A system for ensuring that content owners' rights are protected for media that is streamed or delivered to clients. |
DRM | Digital Rights Management |
DS | Device Settings |
DSCP | Differentiated Services Field Codepoints |
DTCP | Digital Transmission Content Protection |
DTCP-IP | Digital Transmission Content Protection over IP. It provides authentication keys, encryption, copy and usage information to help protect digital assets as they are transmitted over IP networks. |
DUT | Device Under Test |
DVB | Digital Video Broadcast(ing) |
DVR | Digital Video Recorder |
EAS | Emergency/Electronic Alert System. A system designed to inform subscribers that a national emergency is taking place. Also used for local weather alerts. |
ECM | Entitlement Control Message |
EDID | Extended Display Identification Data |
EGL | Native Platform Graphics Interface |
EME | EME Statnd for "Encrypted Media Extensions Specification" and it is specified in the context of web browser. |
EMI | Encryption Mode Indicator |
E-EMI | Extended Encryption Mode Indicator |
EMM | Entitlement Management Message. A message sent from the CASMR to a DTA to tell the DTA that a service is authorized or unauthorized. |
EOS | End Of Stream |
EPG | Electronic Program Guide |
EPON | Ethernet Passive Optical Network |
eSAFE | embeddedService/ApplicationFunctional Entities |
FlashAccess™ | A technology for delivering secure, authorized and content-protected media across a network to a large number of devices. FlashAccess that can be licensed from Adobe Systems |
FPD | Front Panel Display |
FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name |
G-Streamer | An open source pipeline-based multimedia framework |
Gateway | A device that provides services between two networks. Typical RDK gateways are located in the customer premises, providing services to the devices within the home. |
git | The git source code repository - see SVN |
GLIB | An open source cross-platform library developed and maintain by the GNOME project that provides APIs for data structures, threaded programming primitives, and IO functions |
GLIBC | A GNU Implementation of the standard C Library |
GOP | Group of Picture used in MPEG2/4 Video data |
HDCP | High Definition Content Protection |
HDKb | HTTP Dynamic Streaming Broadcast SDK |
HDMI | High Definition Multimedia Interface |
HDS | HTTP Dynamic Streaming |
Headless Gateway | A gateway device that does not provide local a UI. |
HNAP | Home Network Administration Protocol |
HTTP | Hypertext Trasmission Protocol - the protocol used by Web servers and Browsers on the Internet |
HTTPS | HTTP over SSL - Secure transmission of HTTP that uses th Secure Sockets Layer. |
IARM | Inter-Application Resource Manager. This is the main system bus for Events and Messages in the RDK platform. It implements a Publish-and-Subscribe metaphor. |
ICC | Interface Controller Card |
IGD | Internet Gateway Device Protocol |
IGMP | Internet Group Management Protocol |
IPPV | Impulse Pay-Per-View |
ISP | Internet Service Provider |
Java | A portable, object-oriented programming language originally developed by Sun MicroSystems. Java programs are executed inside a JVM. |
JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
JVM | Java Virtual Machine. A software container for running Java programs. |
LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
LLID | Logical Link Identifier |
LSA | Linear Segment Advertising |
LSB | Linux Standard Base |
LTE | Long Term Evolution |
LTSID | Local Transport Stream IDentifier |
LXC | Linux Containers |
MD5 | Message Digest 5 |
MDD | MAC Domain Descriptor |
MIMO | MDD IP Mode Override |
MoCA | Multimedia over Coax Alliance, MoCA is a standards organization that supports a technology to provide the backbone for home digital entertainment networks. |
MPEG-TS | Motion Pictures Expert Group Transport Stream |
MPEG2TS | MPEG2 Transport Stream |
MPTS | Multi Program Transport Stream |
MSE | Media Source Extension |
MSO | Multiple Service Operators |
MVPD | Multichannel video providers |
NAT | Network address translation |
NCS | Network Call Signalling |
nDVR | Network-Based Digital Video Recording |
NIT | Network Information Table. The Table ID extension is used to identify the available transmission networks together with a directory listing of transport streams and their originating network operator with descriptors listing the modulation and source of those streams. |
NTT | Network Text Table |
NVOD | Near Video On Demand |
NVRAM | Non-Volatile Random Access Memory |
OAM | Operations, Administration and Maintenance |
OCAP | Open Cable Application Platform for delivering applications and services on an RF network. |
OCAP-RI | OpenCable Application Platform Reference Implementation |
OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer. An OEM manufactures devices that may be sold in the market under a variety of brand names. |
OLT | Optical Line Terminal |
ONU | Optical Network Unit |
ONUID | Unique physical ONU identification number |
OOB | Out-Of-Band |
Open GL | Open Graphics Library - A low-level graphics toolkit that allows lines, shapes, text and other basic graphics elements to be rendered on screen. |
Open GL/ES | OpenGL for Embedded Systems- a subset of OpenGL designed for embedded systems. |
OSD | On Screen Display/Diagnostic |
OSMF | Open Source Media Framework |
OSS | Open-Source Software |
OTA | Over the Air |
OTT | Over The Top |
PA | Protocol Agent as in Snmp PA and TR069 PA |
PAN | Personal Area Network as specified in IEEE 802.15.4 |
PandM | Provisioning And Management |
PAT | Program Association Table |
PCM | Pulse Code Modulation |
PCP | Protected Content Packet |
PCR | Program Clock Reference |
PE | Provider Edge |
PES | Packetized Elementary Stream per [ISO/IEC 13818-1] |
PID | Program (or Packet) Identifier per [ISO/IEC 13818-1] |
PlayReady™ | A DRM technology framework that can be licensed from Microsoft for streaming media using Digital Rights Management. |
PMT | Program Map Table |
POD | Password Of the Day |
PoE | Power over Ethernet |
PPPoE | Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet |
PPV | Pay-Per-View |
PSI | Program Specific Information |
PSM | Persistent Storage Manager |
PTS | Presentation Time Stamp |
PVR | Personal Video Recorder |
QAM | Quadrature Amplitude Modulation - a QAM is used to convert a digital singal into an analog RF (radio Frequency) signal for transmission on a cable network. |
QEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
Qt ("Cute") | An open source, widely used windowing famework used by the RDK |
RCDL | RDK Code Download |
RDK | Reference Design Kit |
RDK Central | The publicly available website for RDK |
RDK Wiki | A wiki for RDK developers to access RDK related information, support, forums and content. |
REST | Representational State Transfer |
RF4CE | Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics |
RFC | RDK Feature Control |
RIP | Routing Information Protocol |
RMF | RDK Media Framework |
RMF Media Streamer | Component of RMF |
RNE | RDK Native Environment SDK (RNE) is intended to provide a development environment for applications targeted to run in RDK environment |
RPC | Remote Procedure call |
RPD | Routing protocol process |
RSSI | Relative Signal Strength Indicator |
RTCP | Real Time Control Protocol |
RTE | Real Time Encoding |
RTP | Real-Time Transport Protocol as specified by [RFC 3550] |
RTSP | Real Time Streaming Protocol |
S-VCT | Short-form Virtual Channel Table |
SVC | Sub-Band Coding |
SDK | Software Development Kit |
SDV | Switched Digital Video |
SM | Service Manager |
SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol is an Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks. |
SoC | System On Chip - A chipset that provides much of what is needed for a complete computer system packaged on a single chip. |
SPTS | Single Program Transport Stream |
SSH | Secure Shell - a UNIX-like command shell that uses SSL to encrypt all the network traffic for secure access to a command line on a remote server. |
SSID | Service Set Identifier |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer - A common technology used to encrypt network traffic for tramsission over TCP/IP networks. |
SSP | Synchronous Serial Port |
Stable Release | As RDK develops, quarterly releases will branch. Each release branch will be designated into release candidates. |
STB | Set-Top Box |
STC | System Time Clock |
STT | System Time Table |
STUN | Session Traversal Utilities through Network Address Translators (NATs) |
SVN | The Subversion (Source Code Repository) - see git |
TAD | Test And Diagnostic |
TDM | Test And Diagnostic Manager/Time Division Multiplexing |
Title VI | Title Six calls for Closed Captioning of Public Service announcements. This is typically a transcription of the audio portion of a program. |
TKIP | Temporal Key Integrity Protocol |
TLS | Transport Layer Security |
TOS | Type of Service |
TR-69 | Defines an application layer protocol for remote management of end-user devices. |
Tru2Way | Interactive digital cable services delivered over the cable video network. Tru2way is sometimes called OCAP. |
TSB | Time Shift Buffer |
UPnP | Universal Plug and Play. This is a network protocol for broadcasting and discovering services on the network. It allows devices to find services or ro announce that they are providing services. |
USG | UniFi Security Gateway |
VBR | Variable Bit Rate |
VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
VPOP | View Primary Output Port |
WDS | Wireless Distribution System |
WebPA | Web-based Protocol Agent |
WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy |
WPA | Wi-Fi Protected Access |
WPS | WiFi Protected Setup |
WRP | Web Routing Protocol |
X11 | X Windowing System |
XConf | X1 Configuration Manager |
YAJI | Yet Another JSON Iterator - an Open Source JSON parser used in the RDK Stack. |