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Generic diagrams

This page shows some high-level diagrams for typical configurations. Details may vary considerably with your own solution.

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Concepts

These diagrams make reference to many concepts that are explained in other pages in this section of the documentation, especially:

• Ad insertion with a CDN
• Session management
• Ad server & macros

Typical AVOD service

This diagram shows a high-level workflow starting from the end user requesting to play a stream, and includes the delivery of the manifest, ad and content media segments (via a CDN) and the use of ad tracking.

In a typical service, ads are acquired from the ad server, and creatives are processed (transcoded and packaged) by broadpeak.io.

The diagram shows the two options of performing ad tracking server-side or client-side. Usually a single method is used.

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A more detailed diagram can be found in Ad insertion with a CDN

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Live

Live workflows follow a similar mechanism, with the difference that the player requests the manifest(s) every few seconds