Outbound Access Required by Cablecast
June 2, 2025
Summary
This is a list of connections/domains required for heavily firewalled systems that block outbound access.
If you are looking for an inbound access and firewall guide for ports to forward, refer to this document.
https://support.cablecast.tv/s/articles/cablecast-firewall-guide
Host (Machine hosting web interface)
- licensing.cablecast.tv
- cloud.cablecast.tv
- https://weatherbug.com
- https://weather.trms.com/
- s3.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
- https://cablecast-aws-transcribe-sources.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
- https://cablecast-aws-transcribe-sources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
- https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
- https://translate.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
- https://translate.us-west-1.amazonaws.com
- https://translate.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
- https://transcribe.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
- https://transcribe.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
- https://transcribe.us-west-1.amazonaws.com
- https://transcribe.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
- https://transcribestreaming.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
- https://transcribestreaming.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
- https://transcribestreaming.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/
- https://transcribestreaming.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
- *.pool.ntp.org
- time.windows.com
- Any websites you want to ingest info for CG, such as RSS
Live Streamer (Omni, Live, Vio Stream Pro)
- s3.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
- *.pool.ntp.org
- time.windows.com
Optional - Whitelist these to allow streaming to YouTube/Facebook/RTMP
- *.youtube.com
- live-api-s.facebook.com
- screenweave.net
- Any other 3rd party destination you want to stream to such as vimeo
Video Server (VIO, VIOMNI, Flex)
- https://cablecast-aws-transcribe-sources.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
- https://cablecast-aws-transcribe-sources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
- https://translate.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
- https://translate.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
- https://translate.us-west-1.amazonaws.com
- https://translate.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
- https://transcribe.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
- https://transcribe.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
- https://transcribe.us-west-1.amazonaws.com
- https://transcribe.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
- https://transcribestreaming.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
- https://transcribestreaming.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
- s3.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com
- *.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
- *.pool.ntp.org
- time.windows.com
- *.pool.ntp.org
- time.windows.com
Optional - Whitelist these to allow streaming ingest
- *.youtube.com
- live-api-s.facebook.com
- *.screenweave.net
- Any other sites that have streams you want to ingest
Update Services for all Systems
Needs to be whitelisted for all servers to update
Cablecast Installer CRITCAL
- http://installer-web-files.trms.com/
Windows
- http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
- http://*.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
- https://*.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
- http://*.update.microsoft.com
- https://*.update.microsoft.com
- http://*.windowsupdate.com
- http://download.windowsupdate.com
- http://download.microsoft.com
- http://*.download.windowsupdate.com
- http://wustat.windows.com
- http://ntservicepack.microsoft.com
YouTube-DLP (only if you plan to ingest YouTube)
- github.com
Box
This will whitelist our box instance only. Cablecast uses this to download tools or upload diagnostic data.
