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Section
4
Installation Planning
Effective planning for the installation of a Maestro Channel Branding solu-
tion requires an understanding of the required Channel Branding hard-
ware, software, and configuration components of the entire system.
For information concerning the operation of the Channel Branding by the
user, see Section 5-Branding User Operations in this manual.
The LAN architecture that links the Branding Element Production LAN
and the Maestro LAN is explained in this section.
Content Gateway and LAN Architecture
The Content Gateway is one or more PCs and folders in which branding
elements are stored. These branding elements may be defined for use by
Maestro channels and deployed to those channels with the Maestro Config-
uration Editor and Maestro Deployment Center applications. It is recom-
mended that a single PC be used to host the Content Gateway; although, it
is possible to use more than one.
For simplicity, it may be desirable to install the Content Gateway on the
Maestro Deployment PC. The discussion that follows assumes the Deploy-
ment PC is used as the Content Gateway.
Note Content Gateway folders may be installed on one or more PCs, including the
Deployment PC; however, to protect the Maestro LAN, all Content Gateway
PCs should be behind the VPN firewall as illustrated in
Figure 164 .
Figure 164 shows an example of the LAN configuration which connects the
Deployment PC and Content Gateway to the House LAN on which
branding element production takes place.
Note The LAN configuration shown in Figure 164 is an example only. Please note
that the installation and configuration of the Content Gateway and the inter-
faces between the Branding Element Production LAN and the Content
Gateway uses customer-supplied equipment which is not included with
Maestro or the Channel Branding hardware.