Black Box iCompel ICOMP-ICC User Manual page 16

1. Welcome to Black Box Digital Signage
The following diagram shows how the individual network features we have discussed so far combine to provide a network
infrastructure of multiple displays and multiple channels. You might conceive of this as a multisite business with sites in
different cities, maintaining a resilient network of players displaying various streams of content, and all under centralized
control:
Notice how the by-now familiar components operate in combination:
At the center, you create and manage the flow of content for the network through your web browser.
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The iCC publishes content over multiple channels. You configure as many as you need to serve the needs of the business,
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up to a maximum of 50.
Multiple subscriber players display content from whichever channel you designate appropriate to their function. For
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example, the content could be subject-based if the display is for a particular department or could be locale-based if the
display is for a particular city.
How you group the subscriber players is up to you: you can have numerous players displaying common content.
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That picture is deliberately simplified to illustrate the essential components of a large network. Therefore, it is worth
emphasising that the iCC can readily scale up to manage the content for even complex digital signage networks. For example,
the iCC allows you to set a bandwidth limit on a per-port basis, thereby prioritising quality of service for different purposes (see
the HTTP service settings description in
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Firewall for more details).