Cisco Headend System Release 2.5 Release Notes

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Why Choose System Release 3.5?

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More DNCS Enhancements: Improvements Make Familiar Tasks Easier,

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Reference Data Rates and Block Sizes from a New Central Location

The Recommendations for Data Carousel Rate Technical Bulletin provides important

guidelines for setting data rates, and most application installation guides provide

guidelines for setting both the data rate and block size for inband and out-of-band

sources. In previous releases, you had to open each individual source to view the

data rate and block size for the source. SR 3.5 adds the Data Rate and Block Size

columns to the Sources tab. These columns allow you to more quickly compare these

values against documented recommendations and guidelines.
To ensure optimum performance as you add more applications to your system,

review data rates and block sizes periodically. Depending on your system type (non-

RCS or RCS), the following Quick Paths for the Sources path will vary.
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For non-RCS systems:

Quick Path: DNCS Administrative Console> Application Interface Modules tab>

BFS Admin> Sources tab
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For RCS systems:

Quick Path: DNCS Administrative Console> Application Interface Modules tab>

BFS Admin> (select Site) >File > Select > Sources tab

The Data Rate and
Block Size source
parameters are
more visible on the
redesigned
Sources tab.