[c-nsp] Cisco Multicast Manager

[Andre Christian]

I have used CMM for through several iterations of the product (from 2.3 - 3.1). We had about 500 streams, MPEG 2, MPEG 4, video, music channels, etc for an IPTV platform. 

The latest release is a major improvement and it provides a great GUI so people could see the multicast flows. 
I preferred to log into the routers but was required to provide additional monitoring capabilities for other non IP staff.

Ineoquests are extremely good as well, could also be extremely expensive. 

One thing to also think about is how many places you plan to monitor, traditional video people like monitoring everywhere, confidence checks, etc. 

Andre

On Aug 17, 2010, at 2:19 AM, Tim Jackson wrote:

> The best box to monitor video with is an IneoQuest or two... :)
> 
> On Aug 16, 2010 8:44 PM, "John Neiberger" <jneiberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We have very large numbers of high-bandwidth multicast video streams
>> to monitor. The product is not vaporware, it's sitting on my desk!
>> We've had it for a while, but no one has had time to implement it. I'm
>> the new guy, so it was passed to me. I was hoping someone here had
>> experience with it. I just wanted to hear some opinions of it. I
>> haven't had a chance to develop an opinion of it since I haven't seen
>> it running yet. I'm hoping to get it installed this week.
>> 
>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Tony Varriale <tvarriale at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Neiberger" <jneiberger at gmail.com
>> 
>>> To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
>>> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 11:02 AM
>>> Subject: [c-nsp] Cisco Multicast Manager
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Anyone here running CMM? I've been tasked with learning about it and
>>>> installing it. We've apparently had it for a couple of months, but no
>>>> one has had time to get it up and running. I'd love to hear if anyone
>>>> here is running and what your thoughts are about it. It looks like it
>>>> should be useful for us, but the documentation is a little bare on
>>>> CCO. I probably won't really know how useful it will be until I get it
>>>> installed. I've never even seen a working version of it, nor have I
>>>> seen any screenshots of it. I'm the new guy.  lol
>>> 
>>> This is the first time I've heard of it.  It may be vaporware LOL!
>>> 
>>> The customers that I have that really use multicast just monitor it via
>>> their network management station (via SNMP).
>>> 
>>> Mind if I ask what you are using multicast for and what your interest is
> in
>>> such a product?
>>> 
>>> tv
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Regards, 

Andre Christian
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