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User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Suite 5.4.x
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Use Channels to Play Rich Media
Revised: September 17, 2012
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Concepts, page 20-1
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Procedures, page 20-11
Concepts
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Overview, page 20-1
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Glossary, page 20-2
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Channel Examples, page 20-3
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Understand How Channels Prioritize Their Content, page 20-10
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Understand Time Basis Concepts, page 20-10
Overview
Any organization can tailor its site-specific atmosphere for increased relevance and impact through its
use of what we call channels. Each channel has its own programs, its own broadcast calendar, and its
own time basis. Combined, these differentiators create a framework of flexibility that can extend to the
most ambitious global deployments. But even so, channels are intrinsically simple enough and
lightweight enough for small, local deployments.
Topics in this chapter explain core channel concepts in Cisco Digital Signs and guide you step-by-step
through your planning, preparation, and deployment of channels. You will learn how to:
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Create channels that support your goals.
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Choose suitable programming for channels.
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Assign programs to channel dayparts.
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Subscribe endpoints to channels.
Audience
We prepared this material with specific expectations of you.
You will define and manage channels for Cisco Digital Signs.
You will manage endpoint subscriptions to channels.
You understand the mood that your community or organization wants to evoke at a given site.