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Networking Requirements / Best Practices

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NOTE: The following instructions are provided as general best networking practices for instances where EdgeCaster is installed in heavily secured networks or behind restrictive Firewalls. Cases where EdgeCaster is to be accessed from an external network are also addressed, referred to as a “port-forwarded environment”.

 

Table of Contents:

  1. Videon Discovery App
  2. Quick Reference Tables
  3. Port-Forwarded Environment
  4. Outbound Communication
  5. LiveEdge® Cloud

 

Videon Discovery App

Videon Discovery app uses SSDP protocol to manage device discovery. Ensure traffic in the standard broadcast range of 239.255.255.250 is permitted for Videon Discovery app to behave appropriately.

 

Quick Reference Tables

Inbound Port Forwarding
Type External Port Internal Port
TCP End-user defined 80
TCP 2020 2020

 

Outbound Traffic
Type Port Description
UDP End-user defined Streaming output protocols (RTMP, SRT, HTTP)
UDP DNS  
UDP 123 NTP server traffic

 

LiveEdge® Cloud Communications
Type Port/Endpoint

TCP

 443
TCP 8443
TCP

8883
TCP

a3di2u0bk63rob-ats.iot.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
TCP

https://api.videoncloud.com/v1

 

Port-Forwarded Environment

EdgeCasters located in this environment are vulnerable/unprotected: Practice caution when accessing and making publicly available!!!

We would instead recommend the use of LiveEdge® Cloud in place of installing EdgeCaster in a port-forwarded environment.

When attempting to access an EdgeCaster’s web UI from an external network, the following ports will be required to be forwarded via the router:

  • Internal port 80 - TCP traffic - this port hosts the HTTP server for the web UI

  • Internal port 2020 - TCP traffic - this port allows communication with the REST API

    • Port 2020 is the required port for REST API access, this cannot be forwarded to another external port and, therefore, only one EdgeCaster can be placed on the WAN for successful use of the web UI.

Outbound Communication

  • When utilizing HTTP streaming, RTMP, SRT, and HTTP integrations, ensure HTTP TCP traffic is not restricted from the EdgeCaster.

  • If accessing an external NTP server, ensure port 123 is open for UDP traffic.

  • For all streaming protocol(s) being utilized (RTMP, SRT, HTTP), ensure the ports as defined for each output are open for TCP traffic on the Firewall.

LiveEdge® Cloud

LiveEdge® Cloud requires the following standard AWS ports and endpoints to be unrestricted on the network Firewall:

  • Port 443 - TCP traffic

  • Port 8443 - TCP traffic

  • Port 8883 -TCP traffic

  • MQTT endpoint: a3di2u0bk63rob-ats.iot.us-west-2.amazonaws.com - TCP traffic
  • API endpoint: https://api.videoncloud.com/v1 - TCP traffic
    • Outbound traffic only is required.

 

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