The Cisco® Digital Media Suite (DMS) is a comprehensive offering of social video, digital signage, and IPTV systems that can help transform how organizations learn, grow, communicate, and collaborate. Support from the broad Cisco partner ecosystem of deployment, solution-development, and content-creation partners helps ensure a successful digital media implementation.
Cisco Cast
Cisco Cast is a business IPTV system that delivers live and on-demand video and broadcast TV channels over IP to digital screens.
Cisco Cast is an add-on module that uses the Cisco Digital Media Player (DMP) to full advantage to allow you to conveniently and quickly browse and view digital media programs interactively through the DMP remote control over an IP network through your standard- and high-definition displays. It uses standard video-streaming technologies to deliver a compelling live and on-demand video experience. Supported on both the Cisco Digital Media Player 4305G (DMP 4305G) and DMP 4400G systems, Cisco Cast fits easily into your organization's existing IT infrastructure and supports established video formats, including MPEG1 and MPEG2 on both the Cisco DMP 4305G and DMP 4400G systems and, additionally, MPEG4 Part 10 on the Cisco DMP 4400G platform.
Cisco Cast includes a web-based management tool, the Cisco Cast Manager, which resides on the Cisco Digital Media Manager (DMM). Through the Cisco Cast Manager, you can configure and define your own live or on-demand channel lineups as well as subscribe to syndicated third-party electronic-program-guide (EPG) services to populate an on-screen program guide for time-of-day listings of syndicated television programs. The Cisco Cast Manager tool allows you to customize your DMPs on the screen guide by adding your corporate logos or by selecting from the many templates provided for tailoring your organization's color scheme.
The integrated products of Cisco Cast follow:
• Cisco Digital Media Manager (DMM): This web-based media management application allows you to easily manage, schedule, and publish digital media through the web to Cisco Show and Share and to digital signage displays.
• Cisco Digital Media Players (DMPs): The Cisco DMP 4305G and DMP 4400G allow for both live and on-demand streaming digital media across an IP network in a variety of encoding formats.
Together, these products span the digital media value chain and can help your organization reach customers, partners, employees, and students with real-time, relevant content and communications.
Applications
Using the network as a platform for digital media publishing and access provides organizations in many different industries with innovative tools for internal and external communications, marketing, sales, education, and training. For example, through Cisco Cast, you can give a widely dispersed employee base live access to a CEO keynote broadcast, internal business communication programs, or educational broadcasts along with on-demand access to these programs after the live event.
Other applications include:
• Financial services: You can train remote customer service representatives in a remote classroom setting without the time and expense of making employees travel.
• Retail: You can offer customers quick and easy communication through the high-definition displays about new products and promotions, and offer broadcasts of live promotional events.
• Education: You can extend the classroom to include remote, live broadcast and viewing of lectures as well as on-demand access to past recorded events.
• Government: You can facilitate live simulcast access to government meetings and hearings and provide access to digital media-based information about relevant regulations and laws.
You can customize the interface of the Cisco Cast program guide through the Cisco Cast Manager to reflect brand or purpose.
You can deploy the Cisco Digital Media Suite as one of many collaboration services on Cisco Medianet architecture, a flexible, feature-rich framework that can help you achieve your business and technology goals. By making the network more capable and intelligent, Cisco Medianet improves the efficiency of everything the network touches, freeing funds for new, strategic investments and innovation.
Key Features and Benefits
Cisco Cast: Access to Compelling Live and On-Demand Video
Cisco Cast makes it easy for you to access compelling content in standard- or high-definition formats. The application offers sophisticated functions, including:
• Program listing and EPG: You can easily locate relevant media by content category for video-on-demand (VoD) files, or title and channel for live feeds.
• Customizable channel lineups: You can choose from a dynamic list of program channels defined by content publishers and deployed as needed to the digital media players.
• On-demand content: You can access on-demand programs through the easy-to-navigate menu systems of the on-screen program guides to access recorded video such as training programs, executive broadcasts, and customer promotional materials.
• Video program sharing: You can take advantage of the same digital media video programs used in your digital signage presentations as on-demand assets for users to browse and view.
• Live and on-demand program previews: You can preview programs or continue to view live events while you navigate the on-demand or live program listings.
• Scheduled access to Cisco Cast: When used along with Cisco Digital Signs, you can define when a directed signage presentation or Cisco Cast access is available on your digital media players.
Cisco Cast Subscription Service: Syndicated Broadcast Program Listings
You can use the Cisco Cast Manager to subscribe to syndicated EPG services to allow your program guide to display syndicated program time-of-day schedules. You can also create your own program guide lineup and publish it alone or in addition to a subscription service.
With the Cisco Cast Subscription Service tool, you can:
• Allow viewers to browse up to 6 hours in advance for your defined channels
• Automatically update channel guide information
• Mix both syndicated and user-defined channel time-of-day program listings
Product Specifications
Table 1 gives features and Table 2 gives client requirements for the Cisco Cast Manager on the Cisco Digital Media Manager.
Table 1. Cisco Cast Manager Features
Item
Feature
Product compatibility
Compatible with Cisco Application and Content Networking System (ACNS), Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), Cisco Digital Signs, and Cisco Digital Media Players
Programming interface
Web-based management
Table 2. Cisco Digital Media Manager Client Requirements
Component
Requirements
Browser
Microsoft Windows
• Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, or 8.0 recommended
• Firefox 1.5 through 3.0 recommended
Apple Macintosh
• Safari 2.0 minimum
• Firefox 1.5 through 3.0 recommended
Ordering Information
Tables 3 through 5 give ordering information for the Cisco Digital Media Manager.
Table 3. Cisco Digital Media Manager Ordering Information
Product Name
Part Number
Required or Optional
Cisco Digital Media Manager
SVR-DMM52K9
Required
Cisco MCS 7835-H3 Server Appliance
MCS-7835H3-DMS
Required
Cisco Digital Signs Module
DMM-SIGNSM52-K9
Required for Cisco Digital Signs implementations
Cisco Show and Share Module
DMM-DVM52-K9
Required for Cisco Show and Share implementations
Cisco Cast Module
DMM-CAST52-K9
Required for Cisco Cast implementations
Cisco Show and Share Live Event Module
DMM-LEM52-K9
Optional
Cisco DMM SNMP Module
DMM-SNMP52-K9
Optional
Table 4. Software Upgrades and Add-Ons
Product Name
Part Number
DMM Show and Share Module V5.2 Perptl. SW Lic., Spare
DMM-DVM52-K9=
DMM Digital Signs Module V5.2 Perptl. SW Lic., Spare
DMM-SIGNSM52-K9=
DMM Show and Share Module Live Event Module V5.2 Perptl. SW Lic., Spare
DMM-LEM52-K9=
Cisco Digital Media Manager Ver. 5.2 SNMP Module Perptl. SW Lic.
DMM-SNMP52-K9=
Cisco Digital Media Manager V5.2 Upgrade from V5.0
DMM51-U52-K9
Digital Media Player V5-V5.2 Perptl. SW Upgrade
DMP-SW52-U-K9
Show and Share Module 5.2 Upgrade from V5.0 - Workgroup
DV-WKGP-U52-K9
Show and Share Module 5.2 Upgrade from V5.0-Enterprise
DV-ENT-U52-K9
Cisco Digital Media Manager, Feature License for Up To 10 DMPs
DMP-FL-10=
Cisco Digital Media Manager, Feature License for Up To 50 DMPs
DMP-FL-50=
Cisco Digital Media Manager, Feature License for Up To 500 DMPs
DMP-FL-500=
Cisco Digital Media Manager, Feature License for Up To 1000 DMPs
DMP-FL-1000=
Table 5. Hardware Spares
Product Name
Part Number
HW Only Server with 4GB RAM and 4 300GB HD
MCS-7835H3-DMS=
HW Only Server with 4GB RAM and 2 500GB HD
WAVE-574-DMS=
Cisco Services
Cisco and our partners provide a broad portfolio of intelligent, personalized services and support that can help you realize the full value of your video investment, increase business agility and network availability. This portfolio of services drives business transformation through a network-based collaboration platform that enables business to collaborate anywhere, anytime. For more information about these services, visit: http://www.cisco.com/go/services/digitalmedia.
For More Information
For more information about the Cisco Digital Media Suite, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/dms or contact your local Cisco account representative.
