bsn.Control and bsn.Content were formerly named Control Cloud and Content Cloud, respectively.

BSN.Cloud is BrightSign’s cloud-based platform for player and content management.

 onwards come with an industry-leading 5-year warranty. Connecting the player to BSN.Cloud (either the free tier or the paid tier as described below) activates the 5-year warranty. Players not connected to BSN.Cloud have a 2-year warranty. More details can be found 

Note that since control.bsn.cloud is a web interface, players must be connected to the internet in order to be accessible via this interface.

More info about bsn.Control can be found 

Content Management

BSN.Cloud

This is our legacy cloud platform. Our latest cloud platform is BSN.Cloud which consists of the free bsn.Control and the paid bsn.Content tiers. Development of BSN has largely ceased and will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BSN.Cloud.

BrightSign_Network_BSN

BrightSign’s *legacy* app for authoring and managing players. The app's actual name is BrightAuthor but is referred to as BrightAuthor Classic to lessen confusion with BrightAuthor:connected, our latest app.

BrightAuthor_Classic

BrightSign’s latest free, all-in-one app for player setup / management, authoring, and content management.

BrightAuthorconnected

The BSN.Cloud record of a player and its Setup. The Default Setup is assigned to the player unless another Setup has been explicitly set.

Provision_Record

The process where a Setup is delivered and applied to a player by BSN.Cloud.

Provision

A set of files containing player settings (player name, description, time zone, Publishing Mode, network settings, etc.) and an autorun.brs file which instructs the player what to do upon bootup.