Q. What is Medianet Media Awareness?
A. Medianet Media Awareness enables the network to become application context-aware end to end. The network works together with the video endpoints and applications for optimal quality of experience and improved visibility.
Media Awareness is a collection of techniques to detect a wide variety of applications and includes:
• Flow Metadata is a network protocol as well as a feature of both Cisco IOS® Software and the Media Services Interface (MSI) that manages and shares application attributes to network devices, allowing appropriate policies to be applied at each hop, end to end.
• Media Services Proxy (MSP) is a Cisco IOS Software feature that uses lightweight deep-packet-inspection techniques to snoop standards-based signaling protocols. MSP produces flow metadata attributes that can be shared among network nodes.
• Cisco® Network-Based Application Recognition 2 (NBAR2) is a Cisco IOS Software feature that provides protocol and application detection using deep packet inspection from a network dev