A few weeks ago, ActionPacked! Networks successfully completed their second interoperability verification and testing (IVT) with medianet  for its product LiveAction through the medianet systems management Cisco Developer Network  (CDN) program.  

LiveAction was one of the first medianet partners to successfully complete the medianet IVT in April 2011 when it provided support for the medianet features performance monitor as well as IPSLA Video Operations. In this latest IVT, the new version of LiveAction introduced support for the medianet mediatrace feature.  

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Tags: ActionPacked, business video, enterprise networks, IPSLA VO, LiveAction, media monitoring, medianet, mediatrace, performance monitor, rich media applications, TelePresence, video

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In our last blog, we talked about mediatrace which is one of the medianet media monitoring features. In this blog, let’s talk about IPSLA video operations (VO), another media monitoring feature.

IPSLA VO generates realistic synthetic traffic similar with the same characteristics of real media traffic (e.g. burstiness, packet size, packet rate, etc.). Without involving the endpoints, IT operators can generate traffic and observe its impact on the network and other existing applications. This makes IPSLA VO a powerful tool to validate network configurations and capacity:

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Tags: business video, enterprise networks, IPSLA VO, medianet, mediatrace, rich media applications, video

A few days ago we announced new products that now support medianet media monitoring . Media monitoring helps you to assess and measure the impact of video, voice, and data applications in the network. It gives IT operators more confidence and peace of mind to deploy and manage different video and voice applications in their network by enhancing visibility into the network and accelerating troubleshooting.

One of the features of media monitoring is mediatrace which allows IT operators to troubleshoot an issue while it occurs. Mediatrace works like a traceroute that follows a specific flow hop-by-hop collecting performance statistics end-to-end. It can be started from an endpoint with Media Services Interface or in any router or switch that supports the capability.

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Tags: business video, enterprise networks, medianet, mediatrace, rich media applications, video

We are very pleased to announce a new medianet release  including new products that support the medianet features:

• Cisco Prime™ Assurance Manager which provides an end-to-end proactive, network based monitoring, troubleshooting & analysis of application traffic. It supports a variety of data sources including performance monitor.
• Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers  now provides support for performance monitor.
• Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches, in their next release that is coming up soon, will support performance monitor,  mediatrace and IPSLA video operations.

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Tags: business video, enterprise networks, medianet, rich media applications, video