Cisco Cisco MXE 3500 (Media Experience Engine)

After the Cisco MXE 3500 and Cisco Show and Share integration, the end user workflow to upload and 
transcode a video is as follows:

Upload Video to the Cisco Show and Share video portal. 

If you have Pulse video analytics enabled, upload the video as Draft. This allows you to review 
and edit the Speaker names before publishing the video.

The status shows as Processing-Draft. If you select the Go to Publish Page option when the video is 
uploaded, the status shows as Processing-Publish.

Cisco Show and Share submits the video by using FTP to the Cisco MXE 3500 for transcoding. The 
Cisco MXE 3500 transcodes the video; if Pulse video analytics is enabled, Cisco MXE 3500 also 
applies keyword tags and speaker IDs to the video content.

Cisco Show and Share uses the MXE API to submit and poll the status of the job it submitted. When 
the Cisco MXE 3500 completes processing the video, Cisco Show and Share uses FTP to copy the 
transcoded video to the Cisco Show and Share video portal.

After the status changes to Draft, click on Edit Video to review and edit or tag the speaker names. 

If the Go to Publish Page option is selected during video upload, the status changes to Published. 
The video is automatically published to Cisco Show and Share. To review and edit the speaker 
names, click Manage Video, then Save as Draft. In the draft copy, click Edit Video to edit or identify 
the speaker names.

Once a speaker is identified, the system recognizes and automatically identifies the speaker in 
subsequent videos.

Publish the enhanced video content for sharing.

The following guidelines and limitations apply to Cisco MXE 3500 integration with 
Cisco Show and Share:

You can only configure one Cisco MXE 3500 or Cisco MXE 3500 cluster in Cisco Show and Share.

There is no co-location requirement for Cisco Show and Share and Cisco MXE 3500 hardware. The 
appliances can be deployed anywhere in the network provided that they can communicate by using 
FTP (TCP port 21) and HTTP (TCP port 80). Cisco Show and Share uses FTP to submit user videos 
to Cisco MXE 3500 and retrieve transcoded versions, and uses HTTP to submit transcoding job 
requests. If network loading or bandwidth are a concern with large video files, 
Cisco Show and Share and the Cisco MXE 3500 should be co-located.

The Cisco MXE 3500 licenses, Standalone and Resource Manager, both work for this integration. 
Other than the functional differences between the two licenses, there are no specific configuration 
limitations. 

When integrating Cisco Show and Share with a Cisco MXE 3500 cluster (resource nodes managed 
by a resource manager), observe these guidelines:

Verify that the resource nodes (RNs) have full control access to the \\mxe_ip_address\dms 
shared folder on the Resource Manager (RM) appliance. mxe_ip_address is the IP address of 
the standalone or the RM appliance.