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TAP Aggregation, Wireshark and EBU List Tool

Last updated on the 2nd of December 2022
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Whereas you had your monitor port at your SDI router in the past to troubleshoot output signals, a different approach is required in ALL-IP environments.

DataMiner perfectly automates every single step to analyze any problematic signal you might have at any of your media edge devices / receivers. TAP aggregation in combination with one or multiple IP-Analyzers are the perfect combination. To configure the full workflows plenty of steps need to be executed. DataMiner automation engine does it all for you!

  • Select the multicast stream you want to analyze.
  • DataMiner will configure everything which is required for port mirroring and TAP aggregation at your switch fabric. In our example, the Cisco Nexus 93180-2 acts as TAP aggregation switch. As you can see, there is no traffic routed from the Cisco Nexus 93180-1 at the beginning. Only when TAP aggregation has been configured by DataMiner will the mirrored traffic flow.
  • in the next step DataMiner will set the required access control lists to forward the traffic to a Wireshark instance.
  • As soon as the requested multicast stream is available for Wireshark, Wireshark starts a .PCAP recording and stores the file on an FTP-server.
  • Once the recording has been finished DataMiner will decommission TAP aggregation. again and load the Wireshark .PCAP file into the EBU LIST tool (Live-IP Software Toolkit) for in depth analytics of your uncompressed video and audio streams.

All with a single click of a button!

USE CASE DETAILS

In depth ST2110 analysis with the EBU LIST tool.
DataMiner triggers the Wireshark .PCAP recording in the background, including exactly the multicast stream you want to analyze. In combination with the EBU LIST tool you don't need to worry about the complexity of Wireshark any more.

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