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title: "Live Station glossary"
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# Live Station glossary

Available in Classic and VPC

You must become familiar with a few terms to use Live Station. The glossary and its description are as follows.

### HTTP live streaming (HLS)

A media transmission protocol based on HTTP (Hyper Transfer Protocol) developed by Apple, Inc.(Source: [Telecommunications Technology Association](http://terms.tta.or.kr/main.do))

### Live Curtain

Feature, which allows you to temporarily replace the playback screen of a live broadcasting channel with administrator rights

### Live Short Clip

Feature, which allows you to create short clips in real time using DVR recordings of live broadcasting

### Low latency HTTP live streaming (LL-HLS)

Low latency HTTP-based media transfer protocol

### VOD Recording

A feature that records VODs through NAVER Cloud Platform's Live Station

### VOD2LIVE

Feature, which allows you to utilize recording files as a streaming source for live broadcasts

### Global content delivery network (Global CDN)

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that can deliver content quickly and stably anywhere around the world

### Re-stream

A feature that makes it easy to send live media images simultaneously to other platforms such as various social media broadcast platforms, YouTube, and AfreecaTV. The simultaneous transmission and management of the transmission status can be done through NAVER Cloud Platform's Live Station.

### Live Station

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that can implement the essential features of live streams in a cost-effective way through powerful encoding performance

### Bucket

Data storage space. The top directory grouping related objects.

### Streaming

Technology that provides multimedia data to users over networks (Internet) in real time. The streaming service of NAVER Cloud Platform's CDN supports HTTP Live Streaming, HTTP Pseudo Streaming, and MPEG-DASH protocol.

### Stream

Real-time video which is fed into (input) Live Station or is generated (output) by Live Station

### Object Storage

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that can save and search all types of data on the internet

### Access control group (ACG)

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that manages network access to the server using filters based on IP address and port number

### Channel

A unit that must be created in order to use the Live Station of NAVER Cloud Platform to broadcast

### Content delivery network (CDN)

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that quickly and safely delivers various content to internet users

          Note

          

To see a full list of terms and definitions, go to [Glossary](https://www.ncloud.com/guideCenter/glossary) from the NAVER Cloud Platform portal.