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Cisco Video Management and Storage System Enhanced Network Module Overview

System Application

Cisco Video Management and Storage System Enhanced Network Module Overview

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Last Update: March 7, 2008

The Cisco Video Management and Storage System Enhanced Network Module, referred to throughout this guide as the Cisco Video Management and Storage module, for Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs) uses the IP network infrastructure to manage live video, archived video, and video sample retrieval. It also monitors inputs for event triggering and serves as the focal point for live monitoring of video data streams (see Figure 1). The Cisco Video Management and Storage network module can be used in conjunction with the Cisco Analog Video Gateway, which converts analog camera signals into IP-accessible endpoints. For more information about the Cisco Analog Video Gateway, see the Cisco Analog Video Gateway 1.0 CLI Administrator Guide.

Figure 1 Cisco Video Management and Storage System Overview

Security operations personnel can access live video and review archived surveillance video recorded at remote sites from terminals in their local facility.

You use the command-line interface (CLI) to configure the Cisco Video Management and Storage software. This guide describes how to use the CLI to configure the software options of the Cisco Video Management and Storage module.

System Application

The Cisco Video Management and Storage software is a Linux-based application (see OpenSSL License Notice) that resides on an integrated services module that plugs into a host Cisco ISR that is running Cisco IOS software.

The Cisco Video Management and Storage module is a network video management and storage engine with its own startup and run-time configurations and its own CLI, all of which are independent of the Cisco IOS configuration on the ISR. The Linux-based software of the module does not have its own console on its front panel but uses the internal virtual console from the host router.

After the Cisco Video Management and Storage module is configured by using the CLI, the module runs a GUI-based video distribution and management system application, called the Cisco Video Surveillance Operations Manager, based on next-generation video encoding standards. For more information on installing and using the GUI-based application, see the Cisco Video Surveillance Operations Manager Guide.

Launch and configure the module through the router by means of a configuration session on the module (see "Opening and Closing a Network Module Session" section on page 10). After the session, the router CLI is displayed, and you can exit and clear the session.

This arrangement—host router plus integrated network module—provides a router-integrated application platform for accelerating data-intensive applications.

Applications typically involve:

•Video management and storage

•Analog video gateway

•Application-oriented networking

•Contact centers and interactive-voice-response applications

•Content caching and delivery

•Data and video storage

•Network analysis

•Voice-mail and auto-attendant applications