Cisco Headend System Release 2.5 Release Notes

 

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This feature allows the operator to enable or disable specific set-top features from 
the DNCS. For example, you can enable or disable the games feature for a set-top 
from the DNCS. 

 

SR i4.2.2 provides support for games.This feature allow the DNCS to broadcast the 
data to the target platform (for example, the Z60/Z70 or other Zapper set-tops). 
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, 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 
can extract the desired data object from the broadband carousel and perform 
operations on the data object as defined by the software application. 

 

The Broadcast File System (BFS) has been enhanced to support more than one 
bootloader carousel. With multiple bootloader carousels, the BFS can send set-top 
module software version images using more than one carousel. This enhancement 
allows operators to reduce download times by splitting a set of images among 
multiple carousels and to to design the data rate based on the set-top type and 
network bandwidth availability. This feature also enables the DNCS to download 
the satellite and cable set-tops in independent carousels. 

 

This feature triggers an alarm to get the attention of a system operator quickly 
whenever any process running in the DNCS goes down. The remote machine that is 
connected to the DNCS should be able to generate a noise that allows the operator to 
quickly detect this condition.