Cisco Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 2.0 Information Guide
Q&A
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Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 3.1
Solution Value Proposition
Q. What is Cisco
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Video Assurance Management Solution (VAMS)?
A. Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution is a modular, extensible architecture that provides the
framework for a flexible end-to-end assurance platform for video. Cisco VAMS focuses on video assurance by
providing real-time centralized monitoring of broadcast video over multicast. VAMS expands the scope of
video assurance to cover not only a service provider’s backbone, regional, and aggregation networks for
video transport but also the headends and video hub offices where all of the video acquisition and processing
takes place.
Q. What is new in VAMS 3.1?
A. The focus of VAMS 3.1 was to improve the Cisco Info Center (CIC) service interface to process ROSA events.
With this release the CIC rules will be flexible enough to discard a lot of the ROSA alarms that are not
relevant to the service provider.
VAMS 3.1 features:
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DCM cross-launch from IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) dashboard view
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ROSA
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Network Management System (NMS) event filtering in CIC
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Dynamic Service Channel Lineup Population
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VAMS testing of new, upgraded platforms and devices (Cisco 7600 Series Routers, Cisco ASR 9000
Series Routers , Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS))
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Multiprogram Transport Stream (MPTS) support in CIC TBMS
Q. What are the benefits of inline video monitoring?
A. Inline video monitoring provides quality measurements without pulling the video to external devices. With
VidMon, service providers can avoid the capital expenditures (CapEx) of adding dedicated cards or external
video probes for video monitoring.
Q. What are the different types of VidMon metrics?
A. VidMon does not represent a single metric but rather a family of metrics. The applicability of a VidMon metric
will differ based on the type of video being monitored. These metrics can be used independently or used to
complement each other. See Table 1.