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MT Showcase Deployment Architecture

In a standard deployment, every MT Showcase component runs on a single application computer that drives the video wall or touch screen.

  1. Application computer. This computer hosts the MT Showcase server and the player, and has video connections to each Cell in the video wall. The server supplies the player with the data it needs to display MT Showcase apps. The player displays the content and handles touch events, based on data received from the server. The player connects to the server over a local control channel on TCP port 9299.
  2. Application database. This contains the main MT Showcase data, including apps, structures, themes, and content sets. It is a local database file on the application computer.
  3. Reporting database. This contains content usage data captured by the Data Gathering feature, in a second local database file. See Data gathering.
  4. MT Showcase Editor. The Editor is a web-based tool for creating custom MT Showcase apps. It is served by the MT Showcase server over HTTPS on port 443; nothing is installed on a designer's computer.
  5. App designers connect to the Editor through a browser at https://<application-computer-address>, signing in with their own user account.
  6. The MT Showcase player runs apps on your video wall.
  7. Multiple users can interact with MT Showcase apps simultaneously.

For architecture diagrams, a full list of network ports, the outbound connections MT Showcase can make, and the security posture of the product, see Showcase technical information.