Rise in Media Traffic
Two main factors that contributed to a huge increase in media traffic in recenr years are:
- globalization - by expending business and personal contacts overseas
- technology advancement - by allowing anybody to create, distribute and access video.
As a result, more and more people use media services. Some studies suggest that video will make 90% of network traffic by 2012. Recognizing the importance of media traffic, Cisco has developed Medinet technology.
What is Medianet?
Medianet is an intelligent network optimized for media traffic, a network that is:
- media aware - type of media, media application etc
- endpoint aware - computer, camera, iPod, smart phone etc
- network architecture aware.
Medianet is achieved through three Cisco technologies: Performance Monitoring, Mediatrace and IP SLA Video Operation.
What Applications Would Benefit from Medianet?
- video conferencing
- VoIP
- video streaming
- webex
- telepresence
- video survailance
- etc.
Why ICmyNet.Media?
ICmyNet.Media is web based network monitoring tool that allows you to quickly gain insight in your network media flows, using MediaNet Performance Monitoring (PM):
- collect, save and analyze your media flow data
- visualize your media traffic along the network path
- enhance media traffic by locating and troubleshooting problems in your network
- set alarms based on jitter, packet loss, dropped packets and loss rate or their combination
- recognize applications generating media flows
- define your own media applications and expand NBAR based application recognition
- filter out everything but the media flows you are really interested in
- stand-alone media traffic monitoring tool, no need for additional modules
- available for Windows and Linux (Ubuntu and CentOS)
- web-based, access it from anywhere
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