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Adobe Media Server—a family of server-based software which provides video publishing and workflow capabilities that
enable customers to deliver video to PC and non-PC platforms, including those running iOS and Android; utilizes flexible delivery
methods which can save bandwidth costs and lighten network load; offered to customers with different levels of capabilities:
• Adobe Media Server Standard—base level version enables customers to deliver video on-demand and live through
HTTP delivery to reach broad video audiences using iOS and Adobe Flash Player compatible devices and PCs.
• Adobe Media Server Professional—combines with Adobe Access software to enable customers to stream protected,
studio-grade content using a single DRM workflow across desktops, connected TVs, tablets, and smartphones, including
iOS and Android devices.
• Adobe Media Server Extended—broadens video delivery broadcast capabilities by enabling customers to serve video
to more viewers on a large scale with peer-to-peer capabilities.
• Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services—an easy and affordable way for customers to deploy multiprotocol
media streaming that scales to meet business needs; supports Dynamic HTTP Packaging, protected HTTP streaming,
and DRM for Apple HLS; enables a single packaging and protection workflow, and provides delivery scale through
integration with Amazon CloudFront.
Adobe Media Encoder—a free media encoder and live audio and video capture software, also available as part of Adobe
Creative Cloud and our Creative Suite video products; streams audio and video in real time to Adobe Media Server software;
enables web broadcasts of live events such as sporting events, concerts, webcasts, and news and educational events.
Adobe Pass for TV Everywhere—as part of the TV Everywhere industry initiative, Adobe Pass enables content owners to
verify a user's entitlement to content in a manner that is simple and secure; implemented as a hosted service, it allows for back-
end integration based on the business rules required by both programmers and pay TV providers; helps content owners and pay
TV providers take their content to the internet with a secure environment to prevent fraud, and a superior customer experience.
Adobe Video Streaming Service—via CDN partners, Adobe offers hosted services for streaming on-demand video for the
Adobe Flash Player runtime across high-performance networks; built with Adobe Media Server, Adobe Video Streaming Service
provides an effective way to deliver .flv video to large audiences without the overhead of setting up and maintaining streaming
server hardware and network.
HTTP Dynamic Streaming—enables on-demand and live streaming of standards-based MP4 video over regular HTTP
connections; gives content creators, developers, and publishers more choice in high-quality media; while the Real Time Message
Protocol remains the protocol of choice for lowest latency, fastest start, dynamic buffering, and stream encryption, HTTP Dynamic
Streaming enables leveraging of existing caching infrastructures, and provides tools for integrating content preparation into existing
encoding workflows.
Digital Marketing—Digital Enterprise Products
Adobe Connect—a rich web-based SaaS offering or on-premise perpetual license server communication system that enables
organizations to reduce the costs of travel and increase the effectiveness of online training, marketing events, sales meetings and
collaborative web conferencing solutions which are instantly accessible by customers, partners and employees using Adobe Flash
Player; consists of a core Adobe Connect Events Server or hosted service, and modules that provide specific application
functionality, including Adobe Connect Training and Adobe Connect Events; can be deployed with either some or all of these
components together; Adobe Connect Training allows organizations to build a complete online training system with Microsoft
PowerPoint presentations that include surveys, analysis, course administration and content management; Adobe Connect Events
allows users to provide seminar and training sessions as well as to conduct business presentations through the web.
Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service—enables architects and developers to create more engaging and more dynamic
user experiences that deliver multi-user, real-time collaboration features into new or existing rich internet applications; allows
customers to offload management and processing for features such as chat, video, VoIP and white-boarding, ultimately to provide
guided product or service selection, assisted product design or enhanced customer support.
Adobe LiveCycle Connectors for ECM—solutions that enable LiveCycle customers to connect their LiveCycle applications
with other industry-leading enterprise content management systems, such as EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet and IBM Content
Manager.
Adobe LiveCycle Content Services—offers a library of services that can be used with other LiveCycle solution components
to create content-rich engagement applications whereby end users can share and collaborate on content development in content
spaces as part of a company's business processes; supports check-in/check-out capabilities, keeps a complete audit history of all
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