Cisco Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 2.0 Data Sheet
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Metric
Description
Support
MDC
Media Discontinuity Counter: This measures the number of
MPEG discontinuities and provides the per MPEG (PID)
MDC, which gives the frequency of the discontinuities for
that program.
MPEG discontinuities and provides the per MPEG (PID)
MDC, which gives the frequency of the discontinuities for
that program.
Cisco 7600 ES+ line card
MSE
Media Stop Event: As Cisco devices are control-plane
aware, it is possible to isolate unexpected media loss at a
point in the network from loss that occurs as a result of
normal control-plane changes. This is reported as a Media
Stop Event.
aware, it is possible to isolate unexpected media loss at a
point in the network from loss that occurs as a result of
normal control-plane changes. This is reported as a Media
Stop Event.
Cisco 7600 ES+ line card and Cisco ASR 9000 Series
VAMS 3.1 continues to build on the VAMS 3.0 release. New flexible Cisco Info Center (CIC) rules for ROSA
events have been implemented. In addition, there have been significant enhancements to the overall user
experience.
Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 3.1 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. 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 CIC, 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 3.1.2: This tool provides a rich set of multicast and VidMon capabilities that
allow Cisco VAMS 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. CIC collects the outputs from Cisco
Multicast Manager, providing views of both device and multicast faults.
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The ROSA Network Management System 4.2: 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 3.7.2 (ANA): 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 has support for external video probes. Cisco Multicast Manager supports IneoQuest
and Bridge Technologies probes natively, while CIC supports probes from Mixed Signals. Tektronix probes
are supported through a custom virtual network element (VNE) in ANA.
Cisco VAMS makes use of northbound APIs that support integration with OSS applications. CIC provides the
consolidated view of the services and their association to faults in the video transport network.
Cisco VAMS 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.