Monthly Archives: December 2008

Announcing Carousel 5.1.7 and 5.2.2

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 [...]
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Cablecast 4.8.0 Open Beta for SX owners

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 [...]
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Carousel: Bandwidth Throttling

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 [...]
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