Gain Insight into Your CDN Infrastructure

Eliminate your dependence on commercial and proprietary content delivery network (CDN) solutions. With Cisco CDN Analytics, part of Cisco's Videoscape solution, you can use your core network to operate a multi-product, end-to-end CDN infrastructure and take advantage of best-in-class technologies.

Service providers are distributing content today using methods that are more complicated than ever before. The distribution of video on demand (VoD) and linear programming through a variety of CDNs - wireless, private, virtual private, mobile backhaul -- is becoming commonplace. Among the challenges facing service providers are multi-vendor environments and components; monitoring video quality across different networks and different parts of networks; troubleshooting, capacity planning, and proactive monitoring; and provisioning.

Feature and Capabilities

Cisco CDN Analytics provides the following:

• Real-time reporting, analytics, and monitoring of your CDN infrastructure and all components in the data plane including origin servers, content management systems, video processing and clients
• Reporting and analytics tools that enable providers to gather and view information from across systems and look at the health of the network in real time
• Visibility into essential service and operational metrics like traffic distribution and volume, capacity utilization and billing trends, and bandwidth consumption
• Event correlation and event notification

Specifications at a Glance

Dashboards include:

• Network usage and efficiency
• Quality of service by server
• Client usage
• Content popularity
• Geographic location and client density
• Client-specific analysis
• Bandwidth usage by provider
• HTTP response codes analysis

Individual reports include:

• Bandwidth usage by server
• Top active clients by bytes or requests
• Unique client serviced over time
• Top content providers
• HTTP response codes by type

Need help optimizing your overall video network? Using the Cisco Lifecycle Services approach, Cisco and its partners provide a broad portfolio of services that address all aspects of planning, deploying and operating your video network.