Cisco® Multicast Manager 2.5 simplifies discovery, visualization, monitoring, management, and troubleshooting of multicast networks to help ensure mission-critical business continuity. The video operations solution (VOS) add-on provides monitoring support for video probes to proactively detect poor-quality video that is being transported across an IP multicast infrastructure. The Multicast VPN (MVPN) add-on feature gives customers the ability to manage their Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF) tables by monitoring the service provider edge routers along with presenting on-demand views of the MVPN environment by provider edge router or VRF table.
New Features
New features in version 2.5 include:
• Selective Source monitoring: Allows customers to define specific Source devices to be monitored for ongoing health and availability metrics of mission-critical multicast components
• Targeted multicast discovery by subnet: Limits the scope of the multicast discovery and monitoring for simplification and efficiency
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap receiver support: Accepts traps for processing and display of alerts and events
• Enhanced MVPN support: Functionally bridges the discovery and multicast trace ability spanning across the customer edge to the provider edge to present a holistic view of the entire multicast environment without user interaction with any of the devices from the provider network
• VOS integration with Ineoquest (IQ) iVMS provides efficient, real-time video fault information to Cisco Multicast Manager and allows the user to launch the iVMS application to isolate multicast video problems
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)1support: Adds secure Web application login support
Any customer running Cisco Multicast Manager 2.4 or greater can purchase the migration to Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 at an additional cost. The VOS and MVPN optional features are available at an additional cost.
Availability
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 will begin shipping and become available for ordering on January 28, 2008.
Ordering Information
To place an order, visit the Cisco Ordering Homepage. To download software, visit the Cisco Software Center.
Table 1. Ordering Information
Product Name
Part Number
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 Less than 200 devices and 100 sources
CMM-2.5-LIN-SM-K9
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 Less than 200 devices and 100 sources
CMM-2.5-SOL-SM-K9
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 Less than 500 devices and 200 sources
CMM-2.5-LIN-MD-K9
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 Less than 500 devices and 200 sources
CMM-2.5-SOL-MD-K9
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 LIN Unlimited devices and sources
CMM-2.5-LIN-UL-K9
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 SOL Unlimited devices and sources
CMM-2.5-SOL-UL-K9
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 Optional VOS Feature
CMM-2.5-VOS-FS
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 Optional MVPN Feature
CMM-2.5-MVPN-FS
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 LIN Upgrade from SM to MD
CMM-2.5-LIN-UPSMMD
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 SOL Upgrade from SM to MD
CMM-2.5-SOL-UPSMMD
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 LIN Upgrade from MD to UL
CMM-2.5-LIN-UPMDUL
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.5 SOL Upgrade from MD to UL
CMM-2.5-SOL-UPMDUL
Cisco Multicast Manager 2.4 to 2.5 Migration
CMM-2.4-2.5-UG-K9
Service and Support
Using the Cisco Lifecycle Services approach, Cisco and its partners provide a broad portfolio of end-to-end services and support that can help increase your network's business value and return on investment. This approach defines the minimum set of activities needed, by technology and by network complexity, to help you successfully deploy and operate Cisco technologies and optimize their performance throughout the lifecycle of your network.
1This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. For more details please visit the following website: http://www.openssl.org/
