Cisco Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance 11.5 白書

 

 

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Changes in Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance 
Related to Discontinuation of Cisco Medianet 

As you may know, Cisco had to wind down its investment in Cisco Medianet

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technology due to low adoption. As part of this decision, Cisco decided to drop Cisco 
Medianet technology completely from Cisco IOS

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 Software routers and switches, the 

TC/CE image, and plans for Cisco Jabber

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 clients. 

Cisco Prime

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 Collaboration Assurance is one of the applications affected by this decision. In the Cisco Medianet 

portfolio, Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance is using the following technologies for voice and video session 

troubleshooting: 

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Mediatrace: Provides media path trace and hop-by-hop quality-of-service (QoS) statistics. 

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Media Services Interface (MSI): Installed on the video endpoint, it provides 5-tuple for end-to-end path 
trace initiated from a video endpoint. 

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IPSLA VO: Generates synthetic video traffic to measure WAN bandwidth availability for video calls. 

As part of the transition plan, Cisco has decided to invest in the software-defined networking (SDN) controller 

(Cisco

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 Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module [APIC-EM]) to replace the Mediatrace 

functionality for enterprise customers. There is no replacement plan for MSI and IPSLA VO at present. 

To participate in the above transition plan, Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance will undergo the following 

changes: 

Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance Advanced: 

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In Version 11.0 and later, the IPSLA Video Diagnostics feature will not be supported. Customers using this 
technology are expected to stay in Version 10.x if they want continuous support. Note: IPSLA Voice Test 
will continue to be supported. 

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In Version 11.5 and later, Mediatrace and MSI technology will not be supported. Customers using these 
technologies for video session troubleshooting are expected to use APIC-EM-based session trace or stay in 
Version 10.x. 

The updated Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance Troubleshooting feature using APIC-EM, planned for Version 

11.5, will have the same hop-by-hop display graphic and will display the jitter, packet loss, and differentiated 

services code point (DSCP) for each hop, similar to the way that Cisco Medianet sourced information was 

displayed prior to Version 11.5. In Version 11.5 and later, the Cisco Medianet sourced statistics are not supported. 

If you have questions or require clarification, feel free to reach out to 

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