How Tivo Stream Components Interact In The Home; Network Communication Path - TiVo T6 Product Support Handbook

Functional architecture

How TiVo Stream components interact in the home

When fully installed and set up in the home, TiVo Stream communicates and interacts in the following
way:
The TiVo Premiere series (or later) DVR sends high bit-rate MPEG-2 content to TiVo
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Stream via the Ethernet connection.
TiVo Stream transcodes high bit-rate MPEG-2 into a low bit-rate MPEG-4 format.
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Wireless router sends the low bit-rate MPEG-4 video content to the mobile devices.
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Network communication path

The components are connected to the local network as follows:
TiVo Stream—Hardwired to the wireless router.
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TiVo Premiere series (or later) DVR—Hardwired to the wireless router.
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Mobile devices—Connected to the router wirelessly.
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Figure 10–1 illustrates the TiVo Stream network communication path, from the TiVo Premiere series
(or later) DVR to the wireless router via an Ethernet or MoCA connection, and then from the router to
TiVo Stream.
An Ethernet to Coax Bridge (ECB) might be necessary to connect the TiVo DVR via MoCA.
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Figure 10–1: TiVo Stream network communication path
Chapter 10 — TiVo Stream