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Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) — A file transfer protocol that is generally used to
transfer configuration or boot files between devices in a local environment.
Unicast — The sending of messages to a single network destination host on a
packet-switching network. Basically, N clients of a unicast stream will require the server to
produce N streams of unicast data.
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) — A connectionless protocol that sends packets across
networks using "best-effort" delivery.
Variable Bit Rate (VBR) — This scheme adjusts the output bit rate around the specified
target bit rate depending on image complexity. More bandwidth is used when the video
frame is more complex and less bandwidth is used when the video frame is simple.
VLC media player

®

— VLC media player is a commonly used, open source media player

written by the VideoLAN organization (

www.videolan.org/vlc

). VLC media player can be

used to stream, transcode, and save a variety of multimedia formats (including H.264).
Wowza

®

Media Server

®

— Wowza Media Server is software developed by Wowza Media

Systems (

www.wowza.com

) that provides a high performance media streaming server

for delivering content. The software is used to simultaneously stream to a broad range of
screens and devices (including computers, televisions, smartphones, and tablets).

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