Cisco Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution 2.0 白皮書
White Paper
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OSS Suite, and HP OpenView. Southbound APIs support more than 320 devices from
Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper, Redback, and other vendors.
Cisco ANA allows service providers to implement a flexible, common network resource
management infrastructure. Within Cisco VAMS, Cisco ANA delivers fault monitoring
capabilities including: distributed network element and alarm surveillance and processing,
network element fault analysis, and features enabled for network topology-based fault
correlation by advanced applications such as Cisco Info Center. Cisco ANA collects and
aggregates data collected through Cisco Multicast Manager and directly from IP network
elements.
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Enabling platform for value-added network and service management applications: Using its
OSS-to-network mediation and distributed management platform features, Cisco ANA
facilitates value-added management applications such as Cisco Info Center from Cisco and
Cisco partners.
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Standards-based access to near-real-time network element and network information: Cisco
ANA provides Cisco VAMS with standards-based access to real-time information on the
network, network elements, and connectivity information. Information access enables
service providers to use Cisco ANA to ease the integration burden associated with
traditional network management systems through standards-based APIs. For Cisco VAMS,
Cisco ANA offers real-time, distributed alarm surveillance and device-abstraction.
Cisco Info Center
Proactive management of network events allows service providers to maintain video service
uptime and quality. With a service dashboard view of the entire IP video network, Cisco Info
Center provides a single pane of glass for real-time monitoring, management, and event de-
duplication for rapid fault management within all Cisco VAMS components.
Cisco Info Center supports the reliability and performance of multivendor, multitechnology IP
broadcast television networks. Its well-earned reputation for breadth of coverage, rapid
deployment, ease of use, high scalability, and performance makes it a popular Manager of
Managers for Cisco VAMS.
Within Cisco VAMS, Cisco Info Center collects, consolidates, and correlates events from Cisco
Multicast Manager and Cisco ANA, and presents this information in a meaningful, intuitive, visual
format. Administrators can monitor the real-time severity of events through color-coded Cisco Info
Center Event Lists. The customizable Cisco Info Center Dashboard offers service-level views for
rapid fault identification and impact assessment.