Objectives

To get participants to design and set up a set of inter-connected multicast networks. After having experienced this workshop as a student, an attendee will be able to engineer multicast networks within his/her campus/organization, to explain multicast engineering concepts to peers, and, in some cases, to help teach or facilitate future multicast workshops.

Who should attend?

This is a technical workshop, made up of lectures and hands-on lab work. Open to technical staff and Network Engineer/Administrators who are now or soon will be deploying IPMulticast services on a IP based Internet Service Provider (ISP) network, Enterprise network, Campus network or Internet exchange Point (IXP), for one-to-many and/or many-to-many data/media/NGN distribution services and applications.

Course Contents

This training covers the followings topics:
   - Router Configuration
   - Multicast addressing
   - Protocol Soup
   - IGMP (Internet Group Membership Protocol) used by hosts and routers to tell each other about group membership
   - PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode) used to propagate forwarding state between routers.
   - SSM (Source Specific Multicast) utilizes a subset of PIM's functionality to guaranty source-only trees in the 232/8 range.
   - MSDP (Multicast Source Discovery Protocol) used to exchange ASM active source information between RPs.
   - MBGP (Multiprotocol BGP) used to exchange routing information for interdomain RPF checking.
   - SSM & other topics
   - Deploying multicast in a multi-vendor environment

Prerequisite

Cisco IOS Fundamentals; IGP and BGP router configuration basics.

Biography of instructor

Greg Shepherd
Greg has been working with multicast deployments for over 10 years: in R&E networks as an operator, then with Cisco, Juniper, Procket, now back at Cisco. He has given numerous workshops at NANOG, APRICOT, RIPE, AFNOG, SANOG, AIT, as well as directly with customer engineers. Through ISC.org he currently opperates a global multicast peering network.

Stefan Olofsson
Stefan Olofsson is currently a Technical Marketing Engineer with Cisco Systems. He has been active in the Internet and networking industry for 20 years. During this time he has built and operated several national backbones and has had an active role in establishing Internet presence in multiple developing world countries. Joined Cisco Systems in 1995 and is currently active in promoting Fast Convergence technologies and large scale routing solutions.