Monthly Archives: December 2008

Announcing Carousel 5.1.7 and 5.2.2

By Jennifer McCleary | Published: December 30, 2008
We are excited to announce our last two releases of Carousel for 2008! The Carousel 5.1.7 release has a short list of resolved issues, but it packs a punch!  Most significantly, we have decreased the bandwidth usage resulting in less traffic on your network. In Carousel 5.2.2 we improved the functionality of our RSS feeds by optimizing [...]
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Cablecast 4.8.0 Open Beta for SX owners

By John Reilly | Published: December 22, 2008
Greetings Cablecast SX Owners, As many of you may have experienced, the first release of the Cablecast SX video servers hasn’t been as smooth of a ride as we had hoped. The development staff at Tightrope have been hard at work on a new release of Cablecast with the goal of addressing these issues. After many months [...]
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Carousel: Bandwidth Throttling

By JJ Parker | Published: December 10, 2008
Recently we have had a couple of customers who are running Carousel Players across networks (WANs) that are very sensitive to bandwidth. Carousel communicates on 2 TCP ports: 56901 for play list, settings and alert synchronization; and 80 for content synchronization. We have made a change in Carousel 5.2.2 to limit the amount of data on [...]
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