Abrufzentrale

English translation: video server

15:10 Nov 11, 2017

German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Telecom(munications) / ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) technology

German term or phrase: Abrufzentrale

From the same text as my previous question.
Das System nach Fig. XX weist eine ATM-Vermittlungsstelle, eine Vorfeld-Zentrale, mehrere Teilnehmereinrichtungen, zwei ABRUFZENTRALEN, ein Breitband-Fernmeldenetz und zwei optische Breitband-Netzabschlusseinheiten auf.

Eine der ABRUFZENTRALEN ist ueber eine Anschlussleitung an einer der ATM-Anschlussschaltungen an die ATM-Vermittlungsstelle angeschlossen.

I'm guessing "call center/hub", "retrieval center/hub", but as I said in my previous question I don't know anything about asynchronous transfer mode technology. And as with the term of my previous question, googling the term just gives machine translations.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

John Speese KudoZ activity Questions: 630 (3 open) (14 without valid answers) (30 closed without grading) Answers: 386 United States
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English translation:video server

Explanation:
Literally means "request handling center," so some kind of server, as also indicated in Figure 1 (40). Compare with Figure 14.2:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb962019.aspx

In this context, it should be the video server.
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_95/journal/vol4/shr/rep...
The main components of a video on demand service are shown in figure: The video server to store and provide access to programmes, the data delivery network to interconnect the subscriber and the user-end set-top box to interface home TV equipment with the VoD services.

https://www.google.com/patents/US5544327
A video server is provided with buffer manager which balances the loads on the various "movie storage" elements of a video server by preferentially buffering streams on highly loaded storage elements.

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Glad this helped. I forgot to add that Figure 1, (40) refers to the fig. in the patent you are looking at: http://www.google.com/patents/EP0701384B1?cl=de

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Herbmione Granger
Germany
Local time: 20:58

Grading comment

Thanks, Herbal! I went with "server".
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video server

Herbmione Granger

Discussion entries: 8

Björn Vrooman

21:22 Nov 13, 2017

It's right there in the patent, figure 40, as noted by herbalchemist:
"Über die ATM-Vermittlungsstelle 10 gelangen einerseits von der Abrufzentrale 40 (VoD Server) und andererseits vom Breitband-Fernmeldenetz 50 kommende Verbindungen zur Vorfeld-Zentrale 20. "
http://www.google.com/patents/EP0701384B1?cl=de

It's providing video retrieval services. It's certainly not a call center. Here's a similar US patent:
http://www.google.com/patents/US6181867

This one even got "ATM" in it and should be of use.

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Marcus Malabad

Canada

Bjoern

21:06 Nov 13, 2017

Yep, I read only the first paragraph. If John is happy with video server then it's his decision. I would've translated it differently

Björn Vrooman

@Marcus

20:58 Nov 13, 2017

"This and Phil's don't read like one though."

But they are. EPs can be filed in German, English or French. And you can easily see what happened with this one (just click on EP Register at Phil's link):
https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP95113824

"Anmeldesprache DE"
"Verfahrenssprache DE"
[same for "Veröffentlichung" - all DE]

There's just one more filed in Austria: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?FT...

So I wouldn't put too much faith in the translation there. On a side note, the EN version is far from comprehensible.

John Speese

United States

ASKER

15:38 Nov 12, 2017

I know what you mean about machine translations, especially in patents. They can be a joke sometimes. I'm wary of them too.

Marcus Malabad

Canada

call center and hub

13:26 Nov 12, 2017

Patent related to what Phil found:

http://www.google.sr/patents/DE19527094A1?cl=en&hl=nl

If that's what the patent author calls it, then that's pretty authoritative. But caution is needed with patent descriptions on line. Many tend to be MT. This and Phil's don't read like one though.

Teangacha (X)

Ireland

17:13 Nov 11, 2017

In Phil's the 'Vorfeld-Zentrale' is translated as a 'ramp center' and 'Abrufzentrale' is translated as 'call center' so maybe that is the one. I couldn't find those terms though when I searched for them directly with regards ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) technology.
I don't know. Good luck with it!

Teangacha (X)

Ireland

17:06 Nov 11, 2017

Hi John,
I'm not an expert but I have looked up a few places like:
'How ATM Works: Asynchronous Transfer Mode(ATM)
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc756793(v=ws.10...
with regards to ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) technology.

There is a part called UNI call manager. It is also known as ATM signaling component. Could that be the 'Abrufzentrale'? I couldn't find any references to call center.

With regards to 'Vorfeld-Zentrale', there is the mention of 'front-end service ports'.

Just ideas. Hope they help and someone with more expertise on this can confirm or reject them for you.

philgoddard

United States

Context

17:02 Nov 11, 2017

This is for a video on demand system:
http://www.google.com/patents/EP0701384B1?cl=de

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video server

Herbmione Granger
Germany
Local time: 20:58
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Grading comment

Thanks, Herbal! I went with "server".

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks, Herbal. I think that this is it. Video on demand (vod) is used as an example in this text, and even appears in parentheses after the term much further on. I think that I'll use the more general term "server".

Asker: PS: Thanks for thevery helpful website!

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