Cisco Headend System Release 2.5 Release Notes

1-14

Why Choose System Release 3.5?

4001159 Rev B

Instastaging: Stage On Demand in the Subscriber’s Home

Overview

Instastaging streamlines the set-top staging process for two-way, PowerKEY

Professional Instastaging and Subscriber Instastaging: What’s the Difference?

Conditional Access Systems. Rather than racking up large quantities of set-tops to

stage from your warehouse, you can allow professional installers or your subscribers

to stage set-tops on demand.

The actual steps to Instastage set-tops from the home are the same for both

subscribers and professional installers. However, from a system perspective,

professional Instastaging and subscriber Instastaging differ in two important ways:

administrative status and package assignment.
Professional Instastaging
Professional Instastaging requires set-tops to be in a Deployed administrative status.

In addition, the set-tops on the truck do not have packages pre-assigned to them.

Instead, you identify the packages that comprise your standard Instastaging services

using the Default Staging Package option from the Set Up Package window.

Select this option for
each package
containing services
you want to define as
standard Instastaging
services.

You can use this
filter to quickly
review your list of
default staging
packages.