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Chapter 25 Video on Demand

Concepts

Guidelines

•Site Assessment for VoD Programming, page 25-2

Site Assessment for VoD Programming

Remote branch offices are better suited to VoD programming than they are to live video programming. Common use cases for VoD programming include training and executive communications.

We recommend that you use a content delivery system to provision the assets for your VoD programming, particularly if your remote sites have low bandwidth capacity.

Restrictions

•Channel Count Restrictions, page 25-2

Channel Count Restrictions

Features of this Cisco Cast release support 99 or fewer channels of live broadcast programming and VoD programming, combined.

Workflow to Stage VoD Assets to DMP Local Storage

You can stage Cisco Cast assets directly to a DMP, for local storage on:

•Its internal SD flash memory card (usb_1).

•An external USB drive (usb_2).

This technique conserves WAN bandwidth and avoids latency that might detract from the quality of your Cisco Cast VoD programming. It is useful also if you do not have any dedicated content delivery solution in place.

1.Create the DMP group whose member DMPs should store VoD assets.

2.Define the channel lineup.

3.Customize the menu system.

4.Define VoD categories.

5.Add video assets to the media library.

6.Populate VoD categories with video assets from the media library.

7.Verify that the FTP service is enabled on target DMPs.

8.Create a DMS-CD deployment package for the EPG.

9.Stage your EPG to DMPs that should serve VoDs from local storage.

10.Transfer your customized menu system, channels list, VoD playlist, and video assets to DMPs.

11.Monitor progress and the current status of your deployment.

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