VIDEO ACRONYMS GLOSSARY
MARIANNE FOUILLET, VIDEO PRODUCT MANAGER
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Why a Video Acronym Glossary?
We all use acronyms on a daily basis in
our conversations so we get to the point
faster.
But have you ever been in a situation
where you just don’t know what the
others are talking about? And you just
don’t want to stop them because they’re
sure you know what they mean?
Well then, a Video Acronym Glossary
(VAG) could be useful to understand
what we at Video Product Management
are talking about
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OMG WDIM?
Oh My Gosh What does it mean?!
Video Display Acronyms
On a very general topic, for video display quality you’ll often hear about these
acronyms (and these ones are not only in the Arkadin Video Product line, they can be
used in real life too!) :
HD: High Definition (1920x1080 pixels)
SD: Standard Definition (720x480 pixels)
CIF: Common Intermediate Format (352x288 pixels)
FPS: Frames Per Second (the more the better)
And these are the video connectors to display images on a monitor (and they also are
used in real life):
VGA
VGA: Video Graphics Array
DVI: Digital Visual Interface (better display than VGA)
DVI
HDMI: High Definition Multimedia Interface
HDMI
And for the Camera Control, you can find these:
PTZ: Pan Tilt Zoom (Pan left or right, Tilt up or down, Zoom in or out)
This is the type of camera you buy for a VidyoRoom
FECC: Far End Camera Control
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Video Codecs and Protocols Acronyms
And here are some more technical terms used specifically for video environments:
CODEC: COde-DECode (and yes, it is also an acronym!!)
AVC: Advanced Video Coding
SVC: Scalable Video Coding
(these are the adaption of the video signal in real-time to ensure the image fluidity and quality)
H264 / H265 / H323: video compression format used for the distribution of video content
G722 is an audio codec
H239 is the protocol used to share documents
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Vidyo Acronyms
In the Vidyo world we very often use this kind of
acronyms:
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PF : Platform (and not Provisioning Form)
STD: Standard
WL: White Label
GW: GateWay
DC: Data Center ( and not Wahsington DC)
Arkadin is running 2 platforms
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The Direct Customer Platform
 STD PF
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The main Portal is in France
Routers and Gateways (GW) are components that transfer
videoconferencing from one endpoint to another are in different
DC (Data Centers)
The Partner Platform (aka. White Label) dedicated to
resellers, distributors, Vidyo leads and some TELCOs
(NTT for instance)
 WL PF
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The main Portal is in the USA
Routers and Gateways (GW) are in France, Japan , USA
Direct Customer Platform Infrastructure locations
Partner Platform
Infrastructure
locations
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BlueJeans Acronyms
In the BlueJeans world, here are some commonly used acronyms
BJN: BlueJeans
BYOD: Bring Your Own Device
BlueJeans provided by Arkadin are pilots launched in NORAM (Q2 2014) and EMEA (Q3
2014)
> Self service highly interoperable virtual room for all users even if they do not have any
Video endpoint (Web Browser)
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Legacy Video Acronyms
Inherited from the Legacy Video world:
VMS: Video Managed Services
AVMS: Attended Video Managed Services
VMR: Virtual Meeting Room
MCU: Multipoint Control Unit (device to bridge videoconferencing connections)
DMA: Polycom RealPresence Distributed Media Application (DMA)
CMA: Polycom Converged Management Application CMA Desktop
RMX: Polycom® RealPresence® Collaboration Server 1500, 2000 and 4000 Series
CUCM: Cisco Unified Communications
Manager (CallManager)
CTS: Cisco TelePresence System
RP or RTP: Real (Tele)Presence
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Arkadin Processes Acronyms
And here are some more acronyms that are recurrent in
the video product environment:
RMA: Return Merchandise Authorization (for hardware
delivery purpose)
NSBP: Non Standard Bid Process (when it’s outside the
generic process)
CAB: Change Advisory Board
SOF: Service Order Form
PLM: Product LifeCycle Management
VaaS: Video as a Service
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Technical Terms
Plus, for those who are not comfortable with some conferencing technical
acronyms, here are some more:
MPLS: MultiProtocol Label Switching (data-carrying mechanism in computer
networking)
WebRTC: Web Real Time Communication
API: Application Programming Interface (specifies how some software
components should interact with each other.)
FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name
AMG: Audio Manager (for integration of Audio in the Video products)
ISDN: Integrated Services for Digital Network (digital transmission of voice, video
and data services)
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol
GA: General Availability (not Global Account)
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Thank you
Now, this is just a Video product glossary.
So don’t worry there is no quizz at the end, this is just for your
knowledge.
But it can come handy if you want to be in the spotlight at
your next dinner!
And if you know of some more acronyms, please share them
As we say in Arkadin…
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