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Features of Cisco Cast help your organization to deliver video-on-demand and live broadcast TV channels over IP networks to presentation systems that you connect to DMPs.
These DMPs might be in your conference rooms, public venues, executive offices, or other settings.
See the “Understand Licenses” section in Part 1, Chapter 3, “Licenses.”
Cisco Cast includes powerful features for administrators.
You can make programming available that suits your purpose at a particular location, for a particular audience, at a particular time of day.
Hospitality and healthcare providers might even use Cisco Cast in support of in-room IPTV.
Easy navigation logic helps your on-premises operator to choose among your program offerings for Cisco Cast. Its on-screen menus, categories, and program guides support interaction through handheld remote control units, telephones, and touchscreens — all sold separately.
Your on-premises operator can change channels, adjust audio volume levels, play live streams, or play VoD streams.
1. Install the license for Cisco Cast on your DMM appliance.
2. Deploy DMPs and presentation systems to sites where you will show IPTV programming.
3. When your IPTV programming will include live TV.
4. Use Skin Customization options to enable or disable the electronic program guide (EPG) for Cisco Cast.
a. When you will use an EPG, choose a population method for each channel.
b. When you will use an EPG and populate its channel descriptions from an EPG data subscription, define the subscription settings.
c. When your DMM appliance does not have direct Internet access and should use a proxy server to obtain EPG data from your data service provider, configure a SOCKS proxy for Cisco Cast.
Step 1 Point your browser at your DMM appliance.
For example, https://dmm.example.com:8443
Step 2 Choose Cast from the global navigation or click Cast on the DMM landing page.
The TV Channels tab is preselected by default.
Step 3 Stop. You have completed this procedure.