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  1. Obtain the following information from the operator of the upstream system:

    • The IP address and port of the content, including the stream if the upstream system uses that. For example, 192.0.2.120:7001 with stream mycontent.

      You need two addresses for a standard-class input, or one address for a single-class input. For information about input classes and their uses, see Choosing the channel class and input class.

    • Whether the content is encrypted. If it is encrypted, find out if encryption uses AES 128, AES 192, or AES 256.

      Obtain the passphrase from the operator of the upstream system.

    • The stream ID, if the upstream system uses this identifier. The upstream system might require a stream ID, in which case you must obtain it. Otherwise the SRT handshake between the caller and listener will probably fail.

    • The preferred latency (in milliseconds) for implementing packet loss and recovery. Packet recovery is a key feature of SRT.

  2. If the content is encrypted, you must store the passphrase that the operator gave you. Someone in your organization must store the passphrase in a secret in AWS Secrets Manager. For more information, see Create an AWS Secrets Manager secret. Create a secret of type Other type of secret. The result of creating the secret is an ARN that looks like this:

    arn:aws:secretsmanager:region:123456789012:secret:Sample-abcdef