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User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Manager 5.2.x
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Chapter 23 Welcome [to Cisco Cast]
Concepts
Restrictions
• Feature License Restrictions, page 23-2
Feature License Restrictions
Activation See the “Understand Licenses” section in Part 1, Chapter 3, “Licenses.”
Centralized Administration
Cisco Cast includes powerful features for administrators.
• Customize on-screen menus with a logo and a skin.
• Configure video channel assignments.
• Specify what channels and programs should be available to the DMP displays where your
organization will deploy Cisco Cast, and when they should be available.
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.
Related Topics
• Start Cisco Cast, page 23-3
On-Premises Operation
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.
Workflow
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.
Live news and financial
information
Sales and marketing messages Educational or training content
for classrooms
Corporate communications Entertainment Any other programming that
suits your purpose.