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Getting Started Guide for Cisco Digital Media Players
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Centrally Manage IPTV Services
Cisco Cast features help your organization to deliver video-on-demand and live broadcast TV channels
over a local, regional, or global IP network of DMPs and their attached presentation systems— such as
Cisco-branded displays in our LCD Professional series.
• Browse or search with interactive on-screen menus and program guides.
• Show live or on-demand:
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news
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financial information
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sales and marketing messages
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educational or instructional media
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corporate communications
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entertainment
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any other video asset that is suitable for your purpose
• Alternatively, hospitality and healthcare providers might use Cisco Cast features to support
in-room IPTV.
Centrally Manage Sports and Entertainment Venue Services
Cisco StadiumVision is an advanced solution for centralized IPTV video content management
and delivery. It integrates video from multiple sources—in Standard Definition (SD), High Definition
(HD), or both— to automate video delivery in stadiums, arenas, and similar venues.
Platform services software and control panels help you to manage a network of DMPs. Combined with
Cisco video acquisition infrastructure at the head-end, these DMPs use new or existing video displays
in a venue to enhance patron enjoyment of live events and deliver in-house advertising. Your deployment
can leverage the displays in bleachers (terraces), restaurants, clubs, and luxury suites to deliver a range
of uniquely interactive messages automatically to patrons in various areas.
With StadiumVision, you can add, organize, combine, and deliver any supported combination of in-house
programming and external network channels for playback to your patrons.
Qualify a Location for Setup
Cable length, signal strength, and other factors limit where you can set up a DMP—relative to the
location of its AC power source, its presentation system, and any person on site who will use a remote
control to operate the DMP.
• General Environmental Conditions, page 9
• Site-Specific Conditions, page 10