Cisco Headend System Release 2.7 Release Notes
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Instastaging: Stage On Demand in the Subscriber’s Home
Overview
Instastaging streamlines the set-top staging process for two-way, PowerKEY
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.
Professional Instastaging and Subscriber Instastaging: What’s the Difference?
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.
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.
WARNING:
Using this option requires that you place non-pay customers in service
without
the brick mode package or with some other
low level of service. All set-tops set
to out-of-service will get the default package is connected to a two-way drop!
Select this option for
each package
containing services
you want to define as
standard Instastaging
services.
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.
filter to quickly
review your list of
default staging
packages.