Cisco Headend System Release 2.7 Installation Guide
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Introduction
The Broadcast File System (BFS) provides a mechanism for
standardized downloads of applications, games, images, and other
data formats required by applications. The objective of using BFS is to
allow the transfer of broadcast data to the target platform such as a
set-top. Broadcast data can be any sort of data object desired by an
application on the target platform including binary files such as
applications or images, games, text files, or other formats. The BFS will
take these data objects and broadcast the data on a broadband carousel
to the target platform. The carousel is simply an elementary data
stream that is continually playing out these data objects over and over.
The target platform will be able to extract the desired data object from
the broadband carousel and perform operations on the data object as
defined by the software application
standardized downloads of applications, games, images, and other
data formats required by applications. The objective of using BFS is to
allow the transfer of broadcast data to the target platform such as a
set-top. Broadcast data can be any sort of data object desired by an
application on the target platform including binary files such as
applications or images, games, text files, or other formats. The BFS will
take these data objects and broadcast the data on a broadband carousel
to the target platform. The carousel is simply an elementary data
stream that is continually playing out these data objects over and over.
The target platform will be able to extract the desired data object from
the broadband carousel and perform operations on the data object as
defined by the software application
This chapter provides steps for configuring the BFS to support
applications on set-tops.
applications on set-tops.
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Chapter 8
Configuring the Broadcast File
System
System
In This Chapter
Set Up the BFS Server ......................................................................... 120
Configure PAT Entries ....................................................................... 123