Networks and applications have become increasingly complex as new rich media applications and networking technologies have been adopted. Today, organizations rely so heavily on their networked infrastructure, it is imperative to move beyond reactive management techniques of old and assume a more proactive approach by instituting scalable performance management. Medianet introduces monitoring capabilities embedded with router and switches. The IOS Performance Monitor feature enables pervasive monitoring across your infrastructure so in the event of quality issues, there is a way to identify where and what the problem is.

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Tags: business video, Cisco Prime Assurance Manager, medianet, network management, performance monitoring, rich media applications

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

The month of January always seems to be a very busy time at gyms; everyone starts the New Year off with good intentions. Now that February is here I can definitely see the trail off of in attendance at the local gym. Have you resolved to deploy video this year, or maybe your users have resolved for you J ? You’ll need to ensure your network is fit for the job. It won’t be difficult at all. There are features to make it easy to stay on track.

The first  of those features is AutoQos.

The concept of Auto Qos is that the hard work of defining a QOS strategy and implementing it on the network is already done for you. Two main things compromise that strategy, what are the DSCP settings that should be used and how to interpret those setting into a configuration that implements classification, policing and queuing mechanisms within the network.

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