What is the difference between the DMS for campus TV application and the Scientific Atlanta IP/TV system?
A. The Scientific Atlanta IP/TV system provides a higher density of television channels over an IP network. IP/TV is designed to provide television feeds, along with the channel tuning and program guide listings for the individual televisions through the Scientific Atlanta TV set-top boxes. The DMS solution is designed to provide a few channels of IP/TV to desktops or digital display media players. The Cisco DME 2000 can encode two feeds from the video outputs on a service provider’s set-top box, and cannot be directly connected to the service provider’s signal. In a DMS campus TV network, the channels are usually fixed (for example, CNN, MSNBC, and so on); DMS does not allow campus TV users to change the channel input on the cable provider’s set-top box.
