Cisco CS-E340-M32-K9 Edge 340 Digital Media Player

Cisco Edge 340 Digital Media Player Overview

The Cisco Edge 340 Digital Media Player is a new purpose-built digital media player that extends digital media to new, compelling applications for real-time and on-demand communications with flexible digital media creation, management, and publishing of content in various formats to multiple devices. With its hardware-based media acceleration capability, it can support up to two simultaneous high-definition video streams and comprehensive sets of content formats. It also can support both passive and interactive signage with touch and multitouch capabilities. It also provides a rich set of peripheral extensions, such as extendable storage, USB, RS-232, infrared with remote controller, and Wi-Fi to support very flexible deployment options and extended use cases.

Business Benefits

• Supports up to two high-definition video streams and a comprehensive set of content formats with hardware acceleration, which enable customer to provide high-quality and more attractive and dynamic media contents to enhance communication with lower cost.
• Supports interaction through touch and multitouch, USB, IR, and remote to enable two-way communication between customer and digital media system, which will highly improve customer experience, such as wayfinding and so on.
• Provides open and extensible system architecture, so customer can enable more value-added applications to make the digital media system more intelligent, typically analytical system; customer can further evaluate digital media system effects and dynamically adjust content based on statistics.
• Enables customer to create, manage, and distribute high-quality digital content through one system by collaborating with partner's CMS system.
• Provides lower TCO with purpose-built appliance design with long lifecycle embedded chipset, compact fanless design, and low power consumption.

Broad Partner Ecosystem

The Cisco Digital Media Content Partners Program offers a broad partner ecosystem. Our partners provide deployment, solution development, and content creation to support a successful digital media implementation. The Cisco partner ecosystem includes:

• Focused partner community: These trained channel partners and systems integrators are specialized in Cisco Digital Media Suite deployments.
• Solution development partners: These partners continue to develop integrated solutions to further extend the capabilities of the Cisco Digital Media Suite for applications such as meeting room, interactive, and event-based signage.

Making the Most of Digital Media

Digital media has become a compelling platform for reaching customers, employees, partners, patients, and students. Organizations of all sizes use it to provide direct, relevant communication experiences. It offers dynamic visual and audio information that people can easily absorb and retain. Plus, you can centrally manage, distribute, and update digital media content in a snap.

Use the Cisco Connected Media Solution from Cisco and Appspace to:

• Engage employees or customers
• Improve employee communications and training
• Enhance the customer experience
• Accelerate sales
• Keep content up-to-date
• Display information gathered from sensors and other data collection devices
• Lower costs by eliminating poster paper and printing costs
• Maintain your brand with custom templates

Create, Publish, and Manage Content from a Single Interface

Use the Cisco® Connected Media Solution to create and manage digital signs, IPTV playlists, digital billboards, and interactive touch applications. The solution consists of a Cisco Edge® 340 Digital Media Player (DMP) tightly integrated with content and information management software from Cisco partner Appspace.

Transform how those in your organization learn, communicate, and collaborate. Use the Cisco Connected Media Solution to present multimedia content and data collected from the Internet of Things (IoT) throughout your environment, in a customer-facing front office or in a back-office operations center. A Linux-based platform, the Cisco Edge 340 DMP has open APIs that foster broad application development across industries (see Figure 1).

Figure 1. Cisco Connected Media Solution Use Cases

Financial

News, real-time interest and exchange rate

Retail

Real-time menus, offers, and promotions

Healthcare

Queue calling system and ward information query

Education

Schedules, news, and emergency messaging

Hospitality

Hotel service and video advertising

The integrated Appspace platform makes it easy to develop business apps that operate across smartphones, tablets, kiosks, video walls, wayfinders, desktops, and digital signs. The integrated solution manages your network infrastructure, content creation and management, and application design – and even the devices that display your content.

What Sets This Solution Apart?

• Hardware acceleration: The platform takes advantage of a hardwarebased media acceleration capability. As a result, its supports two simultaneous HD video streams in a variety of comprehensive content formats. It also supports both passive and interactive signage with touch and multitouch capabilities.
• Peripheral support: You can connect a rich set of peripheral extensions. Among them: extendable storage, USB supported devices, RS-232, native infrared with remote controller, Wi-Fi devices, and a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) video plug-in.
• Solid partner ecosystem: Cisco and Appspace have a broad partner ecosystem to ensure successful deployment, development, and content creation. Focused partner community members specialize in Cisco and Appspace deployments, for example. And solutiondevelopment partners continue to build integrated solutions to further extend Cisco and Appspace capabilities.

Key Features and Benefits

• Ease of use: A simplified GUI plus professional design templates help you quickly build an app or start from a blank canvas. Drag-anddrop capabilities and reusable widgets give you flexibility and control. Workflows are built-in and customizable, so you can accelerate the sign-off process.
• Broad format support: Cisco and Appspace support the latest video and graphic content formats. You can display and manage highresolution videos, RSS feeds, and more.
• Superior media playback: The Cisco Edge 340 DMP (Figure 2) is capable of 1080p HD playback, so the solution supports highperformance graphics with hardware-based media acceleration.

Figure 2. Cisco Edge 340 DMP Has Wired, Wireless, Media, and Compute Capabilities