Техническая Спецификация для Cisco Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 1.5

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Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 1.5

Solution Overview

Cisco

Video Assurance Management Solution (VAMS) 1.5 performs real-time, centralized

monitoring of your core, distribution, and aggregation networks for broadcast video transport.

Cisco VAMS provides the framework for a modular, end-to-end assurance management

architecture for video services.

Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 1.5 comprises the following Cisco products and

solutions:

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Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA) 3.6

: This system operates between the network

and the operations support system (OSS) layers acting as a mediation and abstraction

between OSS applications and the network devices. Its abstracted network model removes

the complexity of upgrading each and every OSS application when there is an upgrade of

any element within the network. It also provides a gateway to the network for OSS

applications supporting correlation and aggregation of events in the network and provides

this correlated information northbound.

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Cisco IPTV SLA solution

built around Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5: This tool provides a rich

set of multicast monitoring and troubleshooting functions that allow Cisco VAMS 1.5 to be

notified of any changes in multicast or threshold events on elements in the multicast trees

that may affect video performance. Cisco VAMS 1.5 collects outputs from Cisco Multicast

Manager into Cisco ANA, providing views of both device and multicast faults.

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Cisco Info Center

: This suite of products provides the manager of managers for the VAMS

1.5 solution. Traps from ANA and Cisco Multicast Manager and video probes may be

collected and correlated with affected broadcast services. In addition, the service

dashboard provides a simple overview of the traps and their association to the services and

helps enable the user to focus on specific service-related events. Using specific extensions

to Cisco Info Center, the user may cross-launch Cisco Multicast Manager from multicast-

related traps received to support problem isolation and multicast troubleshooting.

Cisco ANA 3.6 builds an abstracted network model through a set of virtual network elements

(VNEs). Each VNE represents an element in the managed network. Cisco VAMS 1.5 enhances the

base functions of Cisco ANA 3.6 VNEs for Cisco 7600s Series Routers, Cisco Catalyst

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Switches, and Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System devices that address the specific

requirements of video delivery across the network.

In addition, Cisco VAMS 1.5 includes dedicated VNEs that support vendor-specific video MPEG

probes; this release includes VNEs for Ineoquest, Mixed Signals, and Tektronics video probes.

The information from these probes allows problems in the video streams to be isolated to specific

parts of the video system.

Cisco VAMS 1.5 makes use of northbound APIs that support integration with OSS applications.

Cisco Info Center (IBM Tivoli Netcool software) provides the consolidated view of the services and

their association to faults in the video transport network.