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Cisco Content Delivery Engine 100/200/300/400 Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview of the Content Delivery Engines Hardware Features
Streamer s. The Video Accelerator kernel software ensures content on the Streamers is always the most
popular content; that is, the content requested by the largest number of subscribers. The Video
Accelerator is responsible for the following:
• Content Storage
• Streaming
• Bandwidth usage for ingests
• Bandwidth usage for streaming
• Mirroring content among Vault servers
• Decisions on content retention on Streamer servers
Hardware Features
The Cisco Internet Streamer and TV CDS Release 2.0-2.1 CDEs are the CDE100, CDE200, CDE300,
and CDE400. Figure 1-1 shows the front view of the CDE100 and Figure 1-2 shows the rear view of the
CDE100.
Figure 1-1 CDE100 Front Vi ew
Figure 1-2 CDE100 Rear View
Figure 1-3 shows the front view of the CDE200 and Figure 1-4 shows the rear view of the CDE200 with
the AC power option.
Figure 1-3 CDE200 Front View
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