Teams
What is SDKs?
You might think it stands for a media player exchange but this acronym, which is the name for the video management system that powers Delta, doesn't seem to officially stand for anything.
What is MPX?
There's a project to consolidate metadata for this, initialed PPV; currently if you want to modify price data or copy, you have to do it in separate client config files.
What is Pay Per View?
Eureka! Product owners on Delta tend to put master features on this board.
What is Aha!?
This continent has both a Delta Island and a Delta Stream (and not much else).
What is Antarctica?
Delta has a concept of screens and screen panels - UI video collections - which are managed by this team, named for the Rebels' signature fighter in Star Wars, flown by Luke Skywalker.
What is XWINGS?
Not to be confused with MPX, it sounds similar but it's actually a framework used for a standardized video player across all Delta clients.
What is MPF?
Mimicking Disney+, this Fox product offers top level channels like Lifestyle, Religion and... Tucker Carlson. The project to do it is called "Channels."
What is Fox Nation?
Delta's own mini-CMS, initialed DPP, is sort of a platform if the video team needs to publish one-off web or mobile pages; it's also the name of the team that manages it.
What is Delta Publishing Platform?
Delta Airlines has its headquarters here, as well as its largest United States airport hub.
What is Atlanta?
This team, which deals in video playback issues and stability, takes their name from this Game of Thrones character who keeps the white walkers at bay behind a door.
What is Hodor?
This squad on the LA side handles purchases like Pay Per View events or in-app subscriptions on the server side. They could've been called "A Currency Squad" I guess, but they went with this other acronym.
What is TMT?
A followup to Super Bowl, the video team wants to change full-stack streaming from HLS to a "Free Ad-Supported TV" protocol. Sonic the Hedgehog would like the name.
What is FAST?
Besides checking local analytics, this counterpart to Airship - used by Fox Sports and the Delta Client Apps - sends mobile app and web push notifications.
What is Localytics?
This kind of delta is created by a deposition of sediment.
What is a river delta?
This team oversees identity, profile, and personalization, and you might find their name out in the rain or in the Resident Evil franchise.
What is Umbrella?
This is a mouthful, but logging into Comcast, DirectTV, AT&T, etc gives you permission to watch network TV, known as this kind of authentication or login.
What is MVPD?
Although it's used interchangeably with its new name DeltOLA, this project came from "FOLA" which stands for an initiative to prepare Fox Now on tvOS, Fire TV, Roku and other TV platforms for a new generation of things to watch in the house.
What is Future of Living Room apps?
Ever emergent, in-app and web purchasing opportunities come up, so this vendor helps take care of the backend credit card transactions and app store validations.
What is Evergent?
This letter is fifth in the Greek alphabet, preceded by Alpha, Beta, Gamma and of course, Delta...
What is epsilon?
The platforms team goes by this name which is also known as a mappable piece of land.
What is PLAT?
There's a project to extend your MVPD login by making the tokens you get back authenticating you last long term, by increasing their... expiration date, so to speak.
What is TTL?
Named after the second longest river in America, this project seeks to overhaul video ingestion, normalize all video metadata across the board, and add new tools for video management and content creation.
What is Mississippi?
With life, and especially the video playback part of life, you need a tool such as this to have video report issues or errors and a dashboard for seeing how video playback health in general is doing.
What is Conviva?
What is Echo?