Cisco Headend System Release 2.7 Installation Guide

 

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The Session-Based Encryption (SBE) activation process involves five 

phases that span seventeen days.  
On Day One, Cisco Services engineers perform the SBE activation 

phase tasks. The four additional SBE set-up phases include procedures 

you perform on Days Two, Five, Ten, and Seventeen. The length of 

time between each phase lets you measure the system database 

progress to ensure that type 8 EMMs are being generated. 
Note: The actual amount of time needed to complete each process 

within a phase will vary depending on the size of the site and the 

complexity of the system. 
This chapter details the procedures that must be completed to activate 

SBE on your system. 

On the last day (seventeen), you must use the VOD Information 

diagnostic screen to verify that a DHCT has received type 8 EMMs. 

This step cannot be performed on DHCTs that do not support the  

SA Resident Application (SARA).  
Important: If your DHCTs are supported by a resident application 

other than SARA, contact your vendor to see if there is a similar 

verification procedure to determine that the DHCTs have received 

type 8 EMMs.