VBrick Systems VB5000 - Manual (Page 42)

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Configuration: Encoder > Announce (SAP)
Contains parameters used to change the SAP (Session Announcement Protocol)
advertisements. SAPs are advertisement packets that are transmitted by VBrick appliances to
other VBrick appliances and VBrick applications such as the Portal Server and
StreamPlayerPlus. They are used to identify streams present in the network.
Join Own Multicast Some network equipment requires that a multicast source (such as a
VBrick encoder) join its own multicast group. This feature is
enabled by default and has no adverse affect on equipment that is
fully multicast compliant.