1. Network administrators use CBN's Network Manager to remotely manage and monitor all aspects of the CBN system.
  2. The NOC monitors content and network status and updates the EBN database with all statistics.
  3. Content managers use Media Manager to remotely insert, manage and monitor their movie content. Media Manager's Hot Folders option enables automatic content upload and distribution from predefined "hot folders" located anywhere in the directory structure.
  4. Modular C-Router software provides content services that administer movie insertion, distribution, and storage, bandwidth provisioning, statistics-gathering for network and content monitoring, as well as optional caching and additional premium services.
  5. The Uplink manages all aspects of multicast movie distribution via existing satellite facilities, including transmission protocols, bandwidth reservation and guaranteed deliveries. Uplink software also administers terrestrial multicast distribution.
  6. C-Terminals administer the distribution, status reporting, and local management of content distributed via satellite facilities, even with no feedback channel in place.
  7. C-POD software remotely handles the automatic playout of content on hotel TV screens across the existing cable network and according to the license and distribution parameters set by the content managers for film.

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