Cisco Cisco MXE 3500 (Media Experience Engine)

Transcoded videos are editable in the Cisco Show and Share video editor. 

When you complete the Cisco MXE 3500 and Cisco Show and Share integration, this is the end user 
workflow:

User uploads a video to the Cisco Show and Share video portal.

Cisco Show and Share submits the video by using FTP to the Cisco MXE 3500 for transcoding.

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 transcoding the video, Cisco Show and Share uses FTP to copy the 
transcoded video to the Cisco Show and Share video portal.

The user publishes the transcoded video.

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

You can only configure one Cisco MXE or Cisco MXE 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 using the Standalone license, the Cisco MXE will continue to perform network transcoding 
jobs in addition to those submitted from Cisco Show and Share. When using the Resource Manager 
license, you can integrate the Cisco MXE with Cisco Show and Share by using one of these 
scenarios:

Add Cisco Show and Share-specific profiles to the Cisco MXE 3500 system default profiles.

Create separate profiles and use these in place of the system default profiles.

Cisco MXE 3500 does not include the workflow profiles: encoder, output, preprocessor, for 
integration with Cisco Show and Share. You must download and install the profiles from Cisco.com.

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 c:\dms shared folder on the 
resource manager (RM).

By default, a Cisco MXE 3500 cluster is in a Windows workgroup. Verify that the mxe-service 
account on both the RNs and the RM have the same password.

If the Cisco MXE 3500 cluster is in a Windows domain, the mxe-service user account could be 
set up as a Windows domain account and both the RM and the RNs would share this account.