Cisco Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 2.0 Data Sheet

Data Sheet

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Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 2.0

Solution Overview

Cisco

Video Assurance Management Solution (VAMS) 2.0 delivers to service providers real-time, centralized

monitoring of their headend/hubs and their core, distribution, and aggregation networks for broadcast video

transport. Cisco VAMS provides the framework for a modular, end-to-end assurance management architecture for

video services.

While Cisco VAMS 1.5 focused solely on monitoring the IP transport for video services, VAMS 2.0 expands the

scope of video assurance by also monitoring the headend and video hub offices. This is accomplished through

integration with the ROSA™ management software’s northbound interface and Cisco Info Center. The ROSA

Network Management System (NMS) provides effective tools for fault management, configuration management, and

performance management especially designed to manage complete IP television (IPTV), broadcast, and cable

networks. Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 2.0 comprises the following Cisco products and solutions:

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Cisco Info Center (IBM Tivoli Netcool)

: This suite of products provides the manager of managers functionality

for the VAMS 2.0 solution. Traps from ROSA, Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA), Cisco Multicast

Manager, and video probes are collected and correlated with affected broadcast services. In addition, the

service dashboard provides a simple overview of the traps and their association to the services and helps

enable the user to focus on specific service-related events. Using specific extensions to Cisco Info Center,

the user may cross-launch Cisco Multicast Manager from multicast-related traps received to support problem

isolation and multicast troubleshooting.

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Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5.4

: This tool provides a rich set of multicast monitoring and troubleshooting

functions that allow Cisco VAMS 2.0 to be notified of any changes in multicast or threshold events on

elements in the multicast trees that may affect video performance. In addition Cisco Multicast Manager also

collects traps from video probes regarding video quality. Cisco Info Center collects the outputs from Cisco

Multicast Manager providing views of both device and multicast faults.

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The ROSA Network Management System 3.0

: ROSA NMS offers a comprehensive management solution

capable of monitoring and controlling nearly all aspects of service management, network management, and

element management of broadcast networks. It can immediately pinpoint critical issues with powerful alarm

logging, alarm filtering, repetitive alarm suppression, and intelligent root-cause alarm correlation functions

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Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.3

: This system operates between the network and the operations

support system (OSS) layers acting as a mediation and abstraction between OSS applications and the

network devices. Its abstracted network model removes the complexity of upgrading each and every OSS

application when there is an upgrade of any element within the network. It also provides a gateway to the

network for OSS applications supporting correlation and aggregation of events in the network and provides

this correlated information northbound.

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Video probes: VAMS 2.0 has support for external video probes. Cisco Multicast Manager supports IneoQuest

probes natively, while Cisco Info Center supports probes from Mixed Signals and Bridge Technologies.

Tektronix probes are supported through a custom virtual network element (VNE) in ANA.