Cisco Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 2.0 Data Sheet
Data Sheet
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Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 3.0 consists of 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 VAMS 3.0. Traps from the ROSA
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Network Management System (NMS), 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 3.1.1:
This tool provides a rich set of multicast and VidMon capabilities that allow
Cisco VAMS 3.0 to be notified of any changes in multicast or threshold events, such as the VidMon metrics,
on elements in the multicast trees that may affect video performance. In addition Cisco Multicast Manager
directly polls video probes to gather video quality metrics. 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 4.0:
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 3.7:
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 3.0 has support for external video probes. Cisco Multicast Manager supports IneoQuest
and Bridge Technologies probes natively, while Cisco Info Center supports probes from Mixed Signals.
Tektronix probes are supported through a custom virtual network element (VNE) in ANA.
Cisco VAMS 3.0 makes use of northbound APIs that support integration with OSS applications. Cisco Info Center
(IBM Tivoli Netcool software) provides the consolidated view of the services and their association to faults in the
video transport network.
Cisco VAMS 3.0 provides a video service assurance solution with a wide breadth of coverage across not only the
transport network for broadcast video services but also the headends and hubs.
Features and Benefits
Cisco VAMS 3.0 provides the following features and benefits:
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Service visualization
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A service dashboard view of the services supported (specifically, program IDs), providing associated
multicast addresses that support the programs and correlated multicast-related traps collected from both
headend/hubs and the IP transport network.
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Transport network visualization
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Network map and device views
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Multicast visualization
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Advanced monitoring and troubleshooting
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Video quality measurements related to loss and delay directly from the data plane on the routers (VidMon)