Cisco Medianet Performance Monitoring with Scrutinizer

Greater Insight into Troubleshooting VoIP and Video Connections

Plixer’s Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer software collects and reports on NetFlow, a network traffic profile monitoring technology developed by Cisco Systems in 1996. Cisco Systems recently announced their expectations that more than 90% of all network traffic will be voice and video streams within the next few years. As a result, advancements in technology and IT management are required to aid traffic management. Networks are an essential part of communications with trends being driven largely by a combination of video, social networking, and advanced collaboration applications.

Cisco has been developing capabilities so users can evolve toward a Medianet, an intelligent network optimized for rich media. Cisco Medianet capabilities combine video and VoIP technologies in the business, home, and service provider networks. Medianet optimizes video and rich media traffic by incorporating intelligence into the protocol infrastructure to help meet QoS demands.


Failing to consider a media-enabled network will result in poor quality for all of the increasing number of network applications. Merely acquiring bandwidth for these applications doesn't provide a solution. Network management tools collect and analyze NetFlow for a media stream's loss, latency, and jitter. NetFlow collectors gather and analyze the flow packets for source IP address, destination IP address, source port number, destination port number, protocol type, type of services, and the router input interface.

Scrutinizer NetFlow Analyzer from Plixer International, Inc. is the only NetFlow monitoring solution to report on the new metrics Cisco embedded into Flexible NetFlow templates for Medianet. Scrutinizer delivers detailed reports to help monitor and troubleshoot video, voice and data applications. The Medianet Performance Monitoring Reports which are possible between hosts or entire subnets include:

  • Round Trip Time
  • Jitter
  • Packet Loss
  • Bits/Bytes and Packets
  • MAC Addresses, IP Addresses
  • VLANS
  • Domains
  • Application Recognition

Plixer's Scrutinizer can also alarm for excessive amounts of any of the above or a combination. Contact Teneo for a special Medianet evaluation version of Scrutinizer.

  

   

"We are very excited to be involved with this emerging technology involving Flexible NetFlow with Medianet...We strive to be a leader in the latest NetFlow technologies and it was great to see Cisco approach us so we could be one of the first vendors to support it."
Michael Patterson, CEO of Plixer