The Cisco® Edge 300 Digital Media Player is a complete platform for interactive media experiences. Now you can easily deliver and manage applications to communicate, connect, and engage. Imagine delivering compelling and interactive media to any store, bank branch, manufacturing floor, or hospital to engage customers and employees in a whole new way.
The scalable, network-based Cisco Edge 300 Digital Media Player is a high-performance platform for effectively delivering multimedia contents and messages to audience in the most targeted and interactive way. It can be used with plasma displays, LCDs, HDTVs, kiosks, and message boards to display high-definition video, sound, and a rich set of graphics content formats with hardware acceleration. On top of this, Cisco's diverse partner ecosystem customizes your deployment to your needs. This gives you new opportunities to create a consistent user experience across multiple channels, increase revenue, and maximize operational efficiency.
Product Overview
The Cisco Edge 300 Digital Media Player (Figure 1) is a high-performance IP-based digital media player that delivers high-definition broadcast or on-demand video, fast playback, and a comprehensive set of content formats such as flash animation, H.264, MPEG2/4, HTML5 content, graphics, and text messages. Whether used in retail, advertisement, customer service, organization communications, or training, the Cisco Edge 300 Digital Media Player provides rich media display capabilities with hardware acceleration on MPEG2/MPEG4, H.264 and VC-1. It supports full range of video and audio Codecs, text tickers, two simultaneous video live streams, flash play back, multiple video zoning, single touch screen, and a complete list of graphic file formats.
Figure 1. Cisco Edge 300 Digital Media Player
The Cisco Edge 300 Digital Media Player supports single-touch interactivity by interfacing with popular touch screens. It can be managed through the network at a centralized location and is fully manageable as a standalone device. As a high-performance Cisco digital media player, it is a powerful, customizable digital media publishing endpoint. Using the Cisco Digital Media Partners, the content management solution vendors, you can flexibly and remotely publish centralized content to networked digital displays. You can attach the Cisco Edge 300 Digital Media Player to virtually any on-premises digital display at any location - for example, in a branch-office bank, retail store, break room, or lobby-across any geography.
Features and Benefits
Prime features and benefits of the Cisco Edge 300 media player:
• High-performance video playback with hardware decoding and high-performance graphics with a rich set of content formats
• Flexible deployment options with a rich set of peripherals, including four USBs, Bluetooth, Ethernet downlinks, and wireless 802.11b/g/n connectivity (Figure 2)
• Compact, fanless design with low power consumption
• Open environment, customizable to allow DMS partners to build various vertical signage solutions
• Cisco device management capabilities such as Smart Install and Cisco Discovery Protocol, which lower the total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Open management API for integration with third-party platform
Figure 2. Interfaces on Cisco Edge 300 Digital Media Player
Table 1 provides additional details about the primary features and benefits of the Cisco Edge 300 media player.
Table 1. Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
High CPU performance and fast download speed
• 1.2 GHz one-core CPU and 2 GB memory
• IP enabled up to 1 Gbps download speed
• 4 GB Flash storage and extendable by up to 4 USBs
High performance to improve quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of digital media communication
• Cost effective in deploying digital media solution
• Deliver live broadcast and on-demand content with existing IP network infrastructure securely and reliably
Hardware accelerated high-definition (HD) and standard-definition (SD) video
• MPEG 2, and 4, H.264 and VC-1 hardware decoding up to 30fps
• Multiple video zoning and plane
• Up to 2 simultaneous video streams
• Broad range of aspect ratios (1280x960p85, 720p, 1024x768p60, 1080p, 720p50, 1080p50, 1080i, 1080i50)
• Flash support (10.2 and action scripts v2, v3, .swf and .flv)
• Text tickers
Easy and centralized content creation and management with Cisco Digital Media Partners
• Deliver live and on-demand content as well as playback with high quality
• Noninterrupted communication that enhances user experience
• Open and flexible platform that allows transparent migration from existing digital media player to the Cisco Edge 300 Digital Media Player
Full audio support
• MP3, AAC, AC3, PCM, WAV, WMA, and OggVorbi
• Audio date rate 32-640k
• Audio in/out interfaces
• High-quality sound and audio playback
• Coherent and synchronized content delivery with audio and video
Single touch screen: 3M and ELO
• Provides simple interactivity
Small form factor (290mm x 210mm x 31mm) and fanless
Low power consumption (less than 20 watts without USB devices)
• Low total cost of ownership
• Ideal for outdoor and indoor
Built-in Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n (access point mode or client mode)
• Easy integration with peripheral devices such as cameras or sensors
• Easy deployment
Local storage of 4GB capacity and extendable by 4 USB ports
• Storage of operating system images and content for local playback or failover for greater reliability and robust operation
• Extendable by up to 4 USB drives for cost saving and pay as you need for more storage space
20W power consumption (without USB devices)
• Low power consumption for higher reliability and reduced capital expenses (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx); environmentally friendly
Compact and fanless
• No moving parts and longer lifecycle
Support Cisco Smart Install and Cisco Discovery Protocol
• Lower deployment cost with zero truck roll
• Integrated with Cisco switch and router for device discovery
Product Specifications
Table 2 lists product specifications for the Cisco Edge 300.
Table 2. Product Specifications for Cisco Edge 300 Digital Media Player
Rich Media
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
• Support for 720p/1080i/1080p high-definition video output
• Support for video graphics array (720p59.94/720p50; 1080p59.94/1080p50; 1080i59.94/1080i50; 1024x768@60HZ; 1280x960@85HZ)
Cisco Edge 300 Digital Media Player with Access Point
Note: Include mount and cable accessory kits
CS-E300-AP-K9
Wall-mount kit for Cisco Edge 300 Series
ACC-E300-WALL(=)
Desktop installation kit for Cisco Edge 300 Series
ACC-E300-DESK(=)
Cisco Services
Cisco is committed to minimizing total cost of ownership for the network. The Cisco portfolio of technical support services helps ensure that its products operate efficiently, remain highly available, and benefit from the most up-to-date system software. The services and support programs described in Table 5 are available as part of the Cisco Desktop Switching Service and Support solution and are available directly from Cisco and through resellers.
Table 5. Cisco Services and Support Programs
Service and Support
Features
Cisco Smart Foundation Service
• Next-business-day advance hardware replacement as available
• Access to SMB TAC during business hours (access levels vary by region)
• Access to Cisco.com SMB knowledge base
• Online technical resources through Smart Foundation Portal
• Operating system software bug fixes and patches
Cisco SMARTnet® Service
• Around-the-clock, global access to the Cisco TAC
• Unrestricted access to the extensive Cisco.com knowledge base and tools
• Next-business-day, 8x5x4, 24x7x4, or 24x7x2 advance hardware replacement and onsite parts replacement and installation available1
• Ongoing operating system software updates within the licensed feature set2
1 Advance hardware replacement is available in various service-level combinations. For example, 8x5xNBD indicates that shipment will be initiated during the standard 8-hour business day, 5 days a week (the generally accepted business days within the relevant region), with next-business-day (NBD) delivery. Where NBD is not available, same day shipping is provided. Restrictions apply; review the appropriate service descriptions for details.
2 Cisco operating system updates include the following: maintenance releases, minor updates, and major updates within the licensed feature set.
