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Glossary of RDK Terms and Abbreviations
| Abbreviation/Acronym | Description |
| AKE | Authentication and Key Exchange |
| CANH | Conditional Access Network Handler for OCAP |
| CCI | Copy Control Information |
| CDC | Connected Device Configuration |
| cDVR | Cloud DVR. A Digital Video Recorded that captures video in the Cloud for playback on client machines. |
| CHILA | The CableCARD Host Interface Licensing Agreement (CHILA) restricts the technologies that CE companies may use for distributing video from host devices. |
| CMAC | Comcast Monitor Application Component |
| COAM | Customer owned and maintained |
| CPC | Client Platform Components |
| DAC | Digital-to-Analog converter |
| DCTP-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. |
| DLNA | Digital Living Network Alliance |
| DLNA CVP-1 | DLNA Commercial Video Player |
| 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 Contol System - The Cisco Head End main component used by MSOs to provide network services to their customers. |
| DRM | Digital Rights Management - A system for ensuring that content owners' rights are protected for media that is streamed or delivered to clients. |
| EAS | Emergency Alert System - A system mandated by the FCC un the US for use in time of national or regianal emergencies. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| G-Streamer | An open source pipeline-based multimedia framework |
| Headless Gateway | A gateway device that does not provide local a UI. |
| 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. |
| Java | A portable, object-oriented programming language originally developed by Sun MicroSystems. Java programs are executed inside a JVM. |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine. A software container for running Java programs. |
| LTSID | Local Transport Stream IDentifier |
| MoCA | Multimedia over Coax Alliance, MoCA is a standards organization that supports a technology to provide the backbone for home digital entertainment networks. |
| MPE | Multimedia Platform Extension. An OCAP API for streaming media |
| MPEOS | Multimedia Platform Extension OCAP Stack. The implementation of MPE for a given OCAP implementation. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| OSL | OCAP Service Library |
| OSS | Open-source Software |
| Parker | Comcast IP set-top project that uses the RDK platform. |
| PlayReady™ | A DRM technology framework that can be licensed from Microsoft for streaming media using Digital Rights Management. |
| QAM | Quadrature Amplitute Modulation - a QAM is used to convert a digital singal into an analog RF (radio Frequency) signal for transmission on a cable network. |
| Qt ("Cute") | An open source, widely used windowing famework used by the RDK |
| RDK | Reference Development Kit |
| RDK Central | The publicly available website for RDK |
| RDK Wiki | A wiki for RDK licensees to reach support, forums, and updates on RDK |
| RFM Media Streamer | Component of RMF |
| RMF | |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol - a widely used protocol for collecting and reporting information and errors on a TCP/IP network. |
| 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 |
| Stable Release | As RDK develops, quarterly releases will branch. Each release branch will be designated into release candidates. |
| STB | Set-top box |
| 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. |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer - A common technology used to encrypt network traffic for tramsission over TCP/IP networks. |
| STT | System Time Table |
| S-VCT | Short-form Virtual Channel Table |
| SVN | The Subversion (Source Code Repository) - see git |
| Title VI | Title Six calls for Closed Captioning of Public Service announcements. This is typically a transcription of the audio portion of a program. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| XRE | Cross-platform Runtime Environment. This is Comcast's Cloud-based service for managing the in-home devices. |
| YAJI | Yet Another JSON Iterator - an Open Source JSON parser used in the RDK Stack. |
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