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Cisco Media Experience Engine (MXE) 3500 Q&A
What’s New in Cisco Media Experience Engine 3500 Release 3.3
Q.
What is new in Cisco
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Media Experience Engine (MXE) 3500 Release 3.3?
A.
Release 3.3 provides support for WebEx ARF recordings and Flash 9 and 10 videos as new video ingest
formats so they can be transformed like any other video file the MXE 3500 supports already.
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The Video Conversion User Interface, sometimes referred to as the Simple User Interface, has been
enhanced so users benefit from a more intuitive interface for video upload and administrators can now define
a custom help link for their users.
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Release 3.3 also provides an automated workflow with the Cisco TelePresence Content Server and Show
and Share. You can now make a recording with the Telepresence Content Server and automatically send it
to the Media Experience Engine 3500 for further transformation and publishing to Show and Share under your
user account.
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Cisco Pulse Video Analytics is also new as part of Release 3.3 and will be integrated into the Cisco Show and
Share Release 5.3 application. You can now find and navigate within videos based on spoken keywords and
speakers. Pulse Video Analytics can listen to the video and automatically extract the relevant keywords and
identify the speakers.
Q.
What is the hardware platform supported by Cisco MXE 3500 Release 3.3?
A.
Release 3.3 will be supported on the MXE 3500 V2 hardware platform. The new hardware platform is Cisco
UCS C200 M2 High-Density Rack-Mount Server. Starting with Release 3.1, all new Cisco MXE 3500 orders
were shipped using this new hardware platform. The Cisco UCS C200 M2 server used by MXE 3500 in Release
3.3 has the following main components:
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Two Intel Xeon X5670 processors that run at 2.93 GHz (versus two X5540 running at 2.53 GHz in Cisco UCS
C200 M1 server)
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48-GB system memory (versus 12-GB memory used in UCS C200 M1). 4 GB is allocated for the Windows
2003 Server operating system with the MXE 3500 software.
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900-GB hard disk space: 4 x 300 GB SAS hard disks arranged in RAID 5 (versus 2 x 300-GB SAS hard disks
in Cisco UCS C200 M1 in Release 3.0). 400 GB is allocated for the Windows 2003 Server operating system
with the MXE 3500 software.
Q.
What is the software architecture of the Cisco MXE 3500?
A.
The software architecture, which was first introduced in Release 3.1, consists of two virtual machines running on
the ESXi Hypervisor technology from VMware. The two virtual machines are: a Windows Server 2003 (Standard
Edition) operating system with the MXE 3500 software and a Linux operating system. The Windows 2003 Server
virtual machine is concealed behind the Linux virtual machine. All requests send to the MXE 3500 application
are intercepted by the Linux virtual machine before they are forwarded to the MXE 3500 application for
processing. This new software architecture significantly reduces the exposure of the Windows 2003 Server to a
variety of security vulnerabilities.
Q.
What is the license management capability in the Cisco MXE 3500?
A.
Starting in Release 3.1, the Cisco MXE 3500 now provides the ability to upload a product license file directly
from its web UI. This capability facilitates easy uploads of the license file by the customer, compared to