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Medianet Traffic Monitoring

A medianet is an IP architecture that enhances the performance of video, voice, and data, and automates many aspects of configuration. UC Monitor receives performance data about medianet-enabled (midstream) devices from the Flexible NetFlow protocol.

UC Monitor provides data about the performance of Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) traffic (or stream legs) on the midstream devices on your network. A stream leg is a unidirectional stream of packets.

Data from stream legs can help your troubleshooting efforts in situations such as the following examples:

• Review video monitoring statistics for one video flow after a user submits a trouble ticket.
• Monitor all video flows from a particular source to verify the quality of video that enters the network.

The UC Monitor support for monitoring medianet data works as follows:

• Medianet-enabled devices send NetFlow data to the Harvester on the collector.
• UC Monitor discovers a midstream device for every IP address that sends NetFlow data.
• The Harvester parses and aggregates the data every 5 seconds and send the data to the management console.
• The management console correlates medianet data with other data, such as RTCP (Avaya) or end-of-call (Cisco), and stores the data in the database.