Cisco Cisco Multicast Manager 3.1 Data Sheet
Data Sheet
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Cisco Multicast Manager 3.0
Product Overview
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Multicast Manager is a web-based network management application that simplifies the
holistic discovery, visualization, monitoring, and troubleshooting of multicast networks to help
ensure business continuity. Cisco Multicast Manager is applicable to enterprise customers that
employ multicast for financial market data, to multiple system operators (MSOs) that utilize
multicast to transport video over IP, and to service providers that need to manage their Multicast
VPN (MVPN) environment.
Cisco Multicast Manager includes:
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Automated multicast discovery and topology generation
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Proactive multicast polling and monitoring
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Real-time multicast diagnostics
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Alerting and reporting
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Support for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), PIM Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), PIM Dense
Mode (PIM-DM), PIM Source Specific Multicast (PIM-SSM), and Multicast VPN (MVPN)
Applications
Figure 1 shows how Cisco Multicast Manager can be used to trace a multicast group. In this
example, multicast is being used to transport video. The trace is presented in tabular and graphical
format. The table can update dynamically, showing the packet per second (pps) rate, output errors,
and discards for each interface along the tree. Cisco Multicast Manager also includes support for
video probes that may be deployed for monitoring video quality. The embedded address
management database shows which channels are affected if there is a problem with a specific
multicast group.