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Product Overview
The Cisco® AnyRes Packager is a high-efficiency segmentation, encryption, and publishing engine. The AnyRes Packager is designed to extend traditional video services to target multiple endpoints for over-the-top (OTT) video delivery.
This comprehensive platform provides support for the latest adaptive bitrate (ABR) formats and features, including Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Microsoft HTTP Smooth Streaming (HSS), Adobe® HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS), and MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH). The AnyRes Packager also provides support for emerging standards within these formats, such as Event Signaling and Management (ESAM) and Encoder Boundary Point (EBP), for enhanced ABR segmentation.
The Cisco AnyRes Packager uses a resource model that supports a fully redundant and synchronized ABR pipeline. The AnyRes Packager's dynamic hot redundancy provides best-in-class uptime, deployment flexibility, and service resiliency. This architecture helps to ensure services continue even during hardware or network-related failures.
By leveraging a modular software-based architecture, the Cisco AnyRes Packager provides the flexibility to fit within any customer network while simultaneously future proofing transcoder investments. The AnyRes Packager provides an ideal complement when paired with Cisco Digital Content Manager (DCM), a dense hardware-accelerated transcoder, or the Cisco Media Processors deployed on the latest x86-based hardware.
The Cisco AnyRes Packager uses the Cisco Linear Stream Manager (LSM) for consolidated management of ABR services using a single intuitive interface. Encapsulation groups and templates make service deployment and scaling easy. Simply add resources, and the LSM will manage load balancing of new services across a pool of AnyRes Packagers.
Features and Benefits
Table 1 summarizes the Cisco AnyRes Packager features and benefits.
Table 1. Cisco AnyRes Packager Features and Benefits
Platform Support and Compatibility
The Cisco AnyRes Packager is a software solution optimized to run on Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) B200 and C200 Series hardware. The Cisco AnyRes Packager and LSM Server can be deployed in both bladed or 1 rack unit (1RU) rack mount environments on UCS or comparable third-party hardware.
Recommended Cisco UCS Hardware Configurations
Table 2 summarizes the recommended hardware for Cisco AnyRes Packager installation on a Cisco UCS B Series Blade Server.
Table 2. Recommended Hardware Configuration on Cisco UCS B Series Blade Server
Table 3 summarizes the recommended hardware for Cisco AnyRes Packager installation on a Cisco UCS C Series 1RU Server.
Table 3. Recommended Hardware Configuration on Cisco UCS C Series 1RU Server
* UCSC-PCIE-ITG may be interchangeable with N2XX-ABPCI03-M3, depending on deployment requirements.
Table 4 summarizes the recommended hardware for LSM Server installation on a Cisco UCS B Series Blade Server.
Table 4. Recommended Hardware Configuration for LSM Server on Cisco UCS B Series Blade Server
Table 5 summarizes the recommended hardware for LSM Server installation on a Cisco UCS C Series 1RU Server.
Table 5. Recommended Hardware Configuration for LSM Server on Cisco UCS C Series 1RU Server
Warranty Information
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Ordering Information
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Table 6. Ordering Information
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For More Information
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