TV Pass Card - This is a small plastic device resembling a 3.5" computer diskette for insertion in various set-top boxes. The card is encoded to provide only authorized access to programming services.

Conditional Access

Configuration Management {System}

Content Management System (CMS)

Element Management System (EMS)

Home Subscriber Server

Initialization

Learning Management System (LMS)

Network Management System – (NMS)

On-Demand Management System

Optical Management System (OMS)

Smart Card

Subscriber Authorization System - (SAS)

Subscriber's Usable Hours

XML-based Content Management System (CMS)



See the Interactive Television Institute.