Cisco Cisco MXE 3500 (Media Experience Engine)

Ingest of MPEG-2 Transport Streams (MPEG-2 video payload and AC3 or Layer II audio payload) 
and output of stream transcoded to WMV, Flash 8, or H.264 formats

Extraction of an audio track from a video and performing speech-to-text transcription and graphic 
overlays (subtitles)

The Cisco MXE 3500 Resource Manager augments the capabilities of the Cisco MXE 3500 by 
intelligently load balancing job processing across multiple Cisco MXE 3500 devices and by delivering 
fault tolerance to deployment.

Cisco MXE 3500 Release 3.2 includes the following new features:

System Job Profiles—Includes the following new system-level Job Profiles: Android, Blackberry, 
Flash, H.264, iPad, iPhone, and WMV. These Job Profiles are located in C:\Program 
Files\Cisco\Media Experience Engine\profiles. 

Video Conversion Interface—Enables end users to convert video easily and quickly among various 
encoding types, to add bumpers and trailers, and to upload automatically to Cisco Show and Share. 
The Video Conversion Interface is available at http://mxe_IP_address.

System administrators configure the options that are available to end users in the Video Conversion 
Interface. To support this configuration, Release 3.2 includes a new Job Profile space named sui. 
The SUI Job Profile space includes these Job Profiles—Android, Blackberry, Cisco DMP, Flash, 
H.264, iPad, iPhone, Show and Share, and WMV—which are located in C:\mxe\profiles\spaces\sui. 
To configure the SUI, select the sui Profile Space from Tools > Select Profile Space in the Web UI 
and then click Administration > SUI Admin in the Toolbox. 

Live Streaming—Supports output of MPEG-2 TS via multicast stream for H.264 Encoder Profiles. 

Smart Ingest Mechanism—Automatically detects certain features of videos, which reduces the 
number of necessary preprocessor profiles in the system and allows, for example, the SUI to use the 
same preprocessor profile regardless of job. You configure Smart Ingest in the Aspect Ratio 
Conversion and Watermarking areas of a Preprocessor Profile.

API—Makes available MXE REST API GET commands and POST helper to automate workflow 
and supports Apache simple HTTP authentication. Cisco Show and Share integration requires HTTP 
authentication to be disabled.

Upgradability—Supports backup and restore through the Web UI. You can restore a backup file only 
to the same Cisco MXE 3500 release, for example a backup file from Release 3.2.1 can be restored 
only to Release 3.2.1. This release also enables you to upgrade Cisco MXE 3500 through the Web UI 
to future releases. Access the backup, restore, and upgrade features from the Tools menu.

Configuration Menu—Enables you to easily change network settings. You can now also change and 
synchronize the multiple system-level (not the Web UI admin password) admin passwords through 
the Configuration Menu. Access the Configuration Menu either by ESXi (requires physical 
connection to Cisco MXE 3500) or by SSH to ESXi (not available on first install).

Cisco MXE 3500 Release 3.2.1 is a maintenance release, and includes the following new features: 

Active Directory Support—Provides access control to shared folders using Enterprise credentials. 

LDAP Support—Provides access control to the Video Conversion Interface. 

New Ingest Formats Support—MOD, TOD, and MTS.