The Cisco D9096 also supports MPEG-2 and AVC-I codecs making it a highly complementary product to the Cisco Digital Content Manager Gateway (DCM-G) for fixed-contribution applications that need to support a variety of codecs bitrates and use cases. The D9096 can encode video at up to 120 Mbps which is suitable for the highest-bitrate-compressed applications.

Along with a high-quality and versatile video encoding engine the D9096 offers a comprehensive audio encoding feature set with support for phase-aligned audio Dolby E decoding and Dolby Digital and Digital Plus encoding. The IP output allows the user to stream from any physical port including the management port and set up a variety of redundancy schemes.

The Cisco D9096 front panel has an alphanumeric keypad and assignable shortcut keys which streamline operations when a web browser is not available. A thin film transistor (TFT) display on the front panel shows the input video and format. An intuitive web interface meets all operational expectations and the Cisco ROSA® Video Services Manager (VSM) offers management monitoring and redundancy for the D9096.